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The Musician / Entrepreneur: Eddie Roberts
by B.D. Lenz
Throughout my Chats with Cats columns I've tried to seek out information and advice from professionals across the jazz spectrum to give musicians, like myself, the tools to forward their own careers. This is an unprecedented time where technology has put it all out there for the taking. I discuss all of this in my Mind ...
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Eddie Roberts
Eddie started his music career proper in 1989 aged 18, having left his Welsh homeland to study Jazz at Leeds College of Music. More interested in live performing and getting his own thing going than in college work, he quickly rooted out the best players in town and set up his first band, The Jazz Mailmen, dedicated to playing the golden era of Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers. After transcribing all the parts and enforcing a dress code of Bop suits, he set about taking the UK Jazz Dance scene by storm. During this time British Hard Bop legend Tommy Chase asked him to relocate and join his band, but Eddie had other ideas…Around 1991 Eddie’s love for Grant Green inspired him to put a Hammond-based line up together. With the sound of Big John Patton, Lou Donaldson and Ivan Boogaloo, his band The Eddie Roberts Organisation toured UK and managed to get its first European dates at the ‘Queen’s Birthday Celebrations’ in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Roberta Gambarini At Dazzle
by Geoff Anderson
Roberta Gambarini Dazzle Denver, CO January 7, 2023 Let me be frank. I'm often dismayed when I see a new album from a promising new jazz artist and review the song list and it's all jazz standards. Don't get me wrong, many of the songs composed in the first half of ...
Charged Particles' Michael Brecker Tribute at Dazzle
by Geoff Anderson
Charged Particles, Michael Brecker Tribute Dazzle Denver, Colorado November 12, 2022 Michael Brecker lives on. On Saturday night, Bay Area band Charged Particles brought their Michael Brecker tribute to Dazzle for a two-night stand. Normally a trio, the Particles were joined by Tod Dickow, a Brecker acolyte, on tenor ...
Billy Cobham's Crosswinds Project at the Gothic Theater
by Geoff Anderson
Billy Cobham's Crosswinds Project Gothic Theater Englewood, COSeptember 24, 2022 “Age ain't nothin' but a number." That's a common mantra chanted by the militantly aging. “Everything wears out." That's a quote from a wise auto mechanic. When those two concepts meet: CRASH! Saturday night, drummer Billy Cobham ...
Gov't Mule at the Fox Theatre
by Geoff Anderson
Gov't Mule Fox Theatre Boulder, Colorado September 17, 2022 What's new with Gov't Mule? Like every other band in the world, they had to take a COVID break from touring. And now, like many bands, they are back on the road after their forced vacation. One thing that's new is their ...
Robert Plant and Alison Krauss at Red Rocks
by Geoff Anderson
Robert Plant Alison Krauss Red Rocks Amphitheater Denver, CO September 1, 2022 One thing was established at Thursday night's Robert Plant/Alison Krauss concert: Denver is a fashion hotbed for aging rock stars. Before we get to the proof, let's discuss the store: Rockmount Ranch Wear in downtown Denver.
The Cash Box Kings at Dazzle
by Geoff Anderson
The Cash Box Kings Dazzle Denver, CO August 26, 2022 Most every description of blues band the Cash Box Kings calls them “the real deal." And it's true, they are. However, as your loyal scrivener, I know that you've come to expect more than the parroting of cliches in these little ...
Ernie Krivda and Theron Brown at Free Concerts in Cleveland
by John Chacona
Ernie Krivda and friends Ernie's front porch Lakewood, Ohio July 31, 2022 Cleveland, Ohio is the birthplace of Albert Ayler and the late Abdul Wadud. It's where the Black Unity Trio recorded what was probably the first free jazz record to be independently released. The city's free jazz bona fides are ...
Tedeschi Trucks Band At Red Rocks
by Geoff Anderson
Tedeschi Trucks Band Red Rocks Denver, CO July 29-30, 2022 The international COVID lockdown was a burden on everybody. Musicians were especially hard hit with no ability to play live and sing for their supper. Many hunkered down and, after some time processing the initial shock of it all, got to ...
