Italy: Zucchero – Italian Singer-Songwriter and Musician From a Country That Celebrates Music and The Arts. As most of you know, Blues and Jazz happens to be considered by some as America’s Classical Music. This is not necessarily true but the sounds were developed in the US of A influenced in large part by slavery and the practice of...
Joe Ruicci
Bobby Militello – One Of The Most Exciting and Inventive Alto Soloist In Jazz Today “It is a well-kept secret that Bobby Militello is one of the most exciting and inventivealto soloists in jazz today.“ “His stimulating approach has been an important ingredient inthe continuing success of the Dave Brubeck Quartet since 1982.” Gordon Jack – Jazz Journal International...
The Bourbon Tabernacle Choir – Not To Be Forgotten So while going through my FB news feed the other day, FB decided to remind me of a memory that came up from a few years ago about one of my all time favourite bands. I guess FB did it’s job in the memory category, bringing back memories about this...
Lance Anderson – Writer, Composer, Producer, Director, Performer The first time I met Lance was back in the 90’s when he came to Joe’s Place to play in Maureen Brown’s band, Big Hand I think he was very happy to be performing at the club due to the fact, we had two Hammond organs, a B3 and a C3...
Jambone – The Best House Band Ever! Not long after Joes Place opened back in ’92, I was approached to book a band named “Jambone – The Best House Band Ever! Jambone was a trio comprised of Thomas Nelson (bass, vocals, band leader), Rick Labrie (guitar, vocals) and Pat Dewey (drums, vocals) performing a variety of music from many...
Juno Award Winner Kellylee Evans Six albums deep and Juno Award winner Kellylee Evans is still shaking it up on Come On, her latest Decca album. The stylistic connoisseur has tackled everything from jazz to R&B and pop in such previous tasty classics fight or flight?, Nina – her Juno-winning tribute to the legendary Nina Simone – and I...
“There would be no Blues Brothers if it weren’t for Downchild” – Dan Aykroyd Downchild, one of the planet’s foremost, most fêted, longest-running blues outfits with quite possibly the best back story ever told. Roaring through bracing, high-octane performances since 1969, the band founded and continuously steered by harmonica and guitar ace Donnie “Mr. Downchild” Walsh is as vibrant...
Several awards have been created to honour not only his outstanding musicianship but his ability to “get the joint jumpin” and “light up the world.”
Working with his friend and band mate Chris Smith, they decided to use the King of the Attic Studio (owned and operated by Chris) that has been mainly used for audio production / band rehearsals and added a new element turning it into a full blown video production suite. From here Rick and his crew have created many Rock...