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Bob DeVos

With long, blues-drenched melodic lines, and a fat, warm, horn-like sound, guitarist and composer Bob DeVos has his own signature style. Critics universally cite Mr. DeVos' "full, liquid tone" and "soulful, intelligent interpretations and superb, modern compositional skiils". Hailed as "the thinking man's guitar hero" and "a brilliant, knowing bebop player", Bob's CDs as a leader for Savant/HighNote and Blues Leaf Records have earned high praise and many stars in Downbeat and throughout the jazz media. His 2006 CD Shifting Sands on Savant was 28 weeks in the top twenty on JazzWeek.com's National Airplay Chart and on many top ten jazz CDs of 2006 and a WBGOFM Jazz Radio "Play of the Month"

Bob DeVos Quartet At Trumpets Jazz Club

by David A. Orthmann
February 8, 2018

Bob DeVos Quartet Trumpets Jazz Club Montclair, NJ January 26, 2018 We live in a time when some of the septuagenarian jazz survivors, with roots in the music's venerated years, are taking a well-deserved victory lap. They've earned the right to expect audiences to pay to hear them ...

Mark Hagan's Jazz Salon At The Old 76 House

by David A. Orthmann
April 27, 2017

Mark Hagan The Old 76 House Jazz Salon Tappan, NY April 19, 2017 There's nothing quite like the experience of being captivated by a live performance in a matter of seconds after the band hits. Without having to stop to think about it, you realize that the intellect and ...

Six String Solos

By Bob DeVos

Label: American Showplace Music
Released: 2016
Track listing: Come Rain Or Come Shine; Yesterdays; Speech Without Words; Have You Met Miss Jones; Chitlins Con Carne; How Deep Is The Ocean; Some Other Time; Beautiful Love; Summertime; While We're Young

Meet Francesca "Cha Cha" Miano

by Tessa Souter and Andrea Wolper
October 3, 2016

A Newport Jazz Festival-New York concert at Carnegie Hall in the early 1970s got Queens native Francesca “Cha Cha" Miano hooked on hearing live jazz--even though, she says, some of the music she heard on the mixed bill that night was way ahead of her at the time. Little did she know that her magnificent obsession ...

Bob DeVos: Six String Solos

by David A. Orthmann
February 8, 2016

It will come as no surprise to anyone familiar with Bob DeVos' work as a leader that, in the absence of a band, the guitarist's virtues remain intact and shine even brighter. One goes to DeVos' gigs--mostly in and around northern New Jersey, usually in trio and quartet formats--with high expectations. Encompassing the simultaneous employment of ...

Bob DeVos Quartet at the 12th Annual OSPAC Jazz and Brew Fest

by David A. Orthmann
September 29, 2015

Bob DeVos Quartet Oskar Schindler Performing Arts Center 12h Annual Jazz and Brew Fest West Orange, NJ September 19, 2015 A loud, protracted rumble, not unlike the sound of aircraft hovering overhead, briefly marred the second selection of a set by guitarist Bob DeVos' Quartet. It took a minute ...

Mark Hagan, Bill Mobley, Danny Walsh, Bob DeVos, Andy Watson At The Old '76 House

by David A. Orthmann
August 7, 2015

Mark Hagan, Bill Mobley, Danny Walsh, Bob DeVos, Andy Watson The Old '76 House Mark Hagan's Jazz Salon Tappan, NY July 29, 2015 Over the last four years, bassist Mark Hagan has presided over a Jazz Salon at The Old '76 House in Tappan, NY. The Wednesday night series ...

Bob DeVos: Shadow Box

By Bob DeVos

Label: American Showplace Music
Released: 2013
Track listing: After Burner; Pensativa; Wives and Lovers; The River's Invitation; Shadow Box; Blue Print; The Wizard; Basie In Mind; Maine Stay; Born To Be Blue; Twisted Blues.

Bob DeVos: Shadow Box

by David A. Orthmann
November 13, 2013

On the face of it, Shadow Box, Bob DeVos' fifth outing as a leader, is a sixty minute case study of the evolution of the organ combo, one of the music's most popular and enduring formats. DeVos tips his hat to legendary individuals (some of whom he played with in the early stages of his career) ...