Jazz Articles about André Lachance

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Steve Maddock: The Blues Project

by Pierre Giroux
September 7, 2021

In the mid 1960's, there was a Greenwich Village, NYC pop band called The Blues Project which was primarily informed by folk, rhythm & blues, jazz and pop music of the day. One of their early success was entitled “Flute Thing," a tune from the group's 1966 album Projections (Verve / Folkways). Keyboardist / vocalist Al Kooper, a founding member of The Blues Project, wrote “Flute Thing." He went on, in 1967, to found the pop-rock band Blood, Sweat & ...