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Bob Corritore Blues Newsletter RIP Patte' Williams, Rhythm Room All-Stars this weekend, Mississippi Valley Blues Festival lineup

March 12, 2010

• RIP Patte' Williams - November. 21, 1945 to March 8, 2010. Phoenix's first lady of soul, Patte' Williams (AKA Patti Williams) passed away Saturday, March 8th while recuperating in the hospital from surgery a few days before. She was 64. Though barely known outside the Phoenix area, and terribly under-recorded, Patte' Williams was considered by many to be Phoenix's top female soul singer. She possessed a powerful, gospel inflected singing voice that was often compared to that of Aretha Franklin. During the seventies she released a wonderful single called "One Time Around Kind Of Thing" and had an acting part in the Rudy Ray Moore Movie Human Tornado. She performed regularly in Phoenix and California, and was also very active in the church community. She was a beautiful woman with kind word and a smile for everyone. She will be greatly missed. To read the Arizona Republic article by Larry Rodgers click here. To hear Patte' singing "Doing The Best That I Can" click here. To see a YouTube Clip of Patte' performing "Damn Your Eyes" at the Rhythm Room click here. To see an interview on Backstage Pass with both Chico Chism and Patte' Click here. Services will be held on Saturday at 10am at First Pentecosal Church, 2701 E. Marguerite, Phoenix, 85040. Thank you Patte', for blessing Phoenix with your musical gifts and your exemplary dignity.
• Rhythm Room All-Stars appear Friday and Saturday at the Rhythm Room! The Rhythm Room All-Stars return to their home base on Friday and Saturday, March 12th and 13th, for a weekend of house rockin' and blues shoutin'. The Rhythm Room All-Stars consist of Big Pete Pearson, Bob Corritore, Chris James, Patrick Rynn, and Brian Fahey. This weekend, special guest Dave Riley will stop in to do a guest set each night. Doors are at 8pm, with a 9pm showtime. The Rhythm Room is located at 1019 E. Indian School Rd., Phoenix, AZ. 85257.
• Dave Riley & Bob Corritore European interviews! Two prominent European music magazines have recently published interviews that were conducted last November during the Lucerne Blues Festival. Marino Grande, of Italy's presigious blues magazine Il Blues met with both Dave Riley and Bob Corritore for seperate interviews which are now included in the latest issue. You can see these interviews by clicking here. Marco Piazzalonga of Switzerland's Jazz 'N More Magazine also did a Bob Corritore interview which is out in the current issue of that magazine. You can see Bob's Jazz 'N More interview by clicking here. We also recently posted an article/interview done with Bob for the Lucerne local newspaper which can be viewed by clicking here. Thanks to all the publications who have taken interest in Dave Riley and Bob Corritore.
• Rhythm Room All-Stars activities. The Rhythm Room All-Stars have been actively involved in various musical projects and activities. Chris James and Patrick Rynn are working on the finishing touches of their sophomore release on the Earwig label. The new CD is called Gonna Boogie Anyway. Chris and Patrick will also participate in the 2010 Spring Harp Festival in San Diego on April 3rd, 21010 (click here for more information). Chris has also produced a forthcoming CD by harmonica player Rob Stone (Chris' long time associate). Patrick Rynn, who was recently nominated for a BMA in the bass player category, has a interview feature in the latest issue of Big City Blues. Brian Fahey is on the cover of the most recent issue of Belgium's Back To The Roots Magazine. Brian will also participate in a two week Paladins reunion tour in Europe in early May. Bob Corritore is working on his next album called Harmonica Blues with an amazing array of special guests (more on this shortly!). Big Pete Pearson is recovering nicely from knee replacement surgery and after a week was already back to performing! Big Pete Pearson was recently featured on Blues Quest syndicated Blues show with host Mike Sanders (Click here to enjoy the podcast). Thanks for the attention received by the Rhythm Room All-Stars, both as a band and individually. Each member of this group brings allot to the table.
• Mississippi Valley Blues Festival lineup announced! Each year the Mississippi Valley Blues Society host a top notch, 3 day blues festival during the 4th of July weekend at beautiful LeClaire Park in Davenport, Iowa. This Festival is considered one of the best blues gatherings in the country and each year has a stellar lineup. This year the 26th annual IH Mississippi Valley Blues Festival lineup includes Li’l Ed and the Blues Imperials, Ana Popovic, Zac Harmon, Vasti Jackson, Rosie Ledet, Ruthie Foster, Billy Branch and the Sons of the Blues, Shawn Kellerman, Lucky Peterson, The Legendary Blues Cruise Revue featuring Tommy Castro and Debbie Davies, Dave Riley and Bob Corritore, The Nighthawks with Hubert Sumlin, and a tribute to descendants of blues legends, featuring Mud Morganfield, Bernard Allison, Little Pink Anderson, Caroline Shines, Lurrie Bell, and Shirley King. The festival also includes free blues workshops, and "BlueSKool" for the kids. For more information about the festival and it's hosts click here.
• Helen Humes' star studded blues jam on YouTube! Please enjoy this wonderful blues gathering that features Helen Humes, Willie Dixon, Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee, Jump Jackson, and T-Bone Walker! This 1962 film clip was part of the American Folk Blues Legends Tour of that year. Click here to see this unique blues gathering.

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New York welcomes the First Annual HSBC Jazz Festival

New York welcomes the First Annual HSBC Jazz Festival
Spyro Gyra, Jonathan Butler, Al Jarreau, Christian Scott, Patti Austin, Tuck and Patti
March 25, March 27 and March 28 at the Nokia Theater in Times Square

Thursday, March 25 - Spyro Gyro and Jonathan Butler - 8pm - Nokia Theater, NYC

Marquee Concerts are proud to present the first annual HSBC Jazz Festival opening on Thursday, March 25th with the double bill of Spyro Gyra and Jonathan Butler. Many of you only have to read the name Spyro Gyra and are already humming "Morning Dance" and "Shaker Song". For more than three decades, Spyro Gyra has maintained the well-deserved reputation as a viable and highly versatile creative force. Since their earliest recordings in the mid 1970s, they have taken a fresh approach to their craft by borrowing from a range of sources and distilling them into an unmistakable signature sound. This innovative and eclectic sensibility has earned the band 10 GRAMMY nominations overall, and has fueled the sale of 11 million records -- including one platinum and two gold records. In the midst of the achievements and accolades, Spyro Gyra keeps moving and grooving, having logged over 5,000 high-energy performances in their prolific career.

Jonathan Butler has led a life few could imagine. Born under the shadow of South African apartheid and raised in poverty, Butler while still in his teens, became the first non-white artist to be played on white mainstream radio and appear on national South African television. Nelson Mandela credits Butler's music as having inspired him during his long days of imprisonment. He has three decades of international acclaim and has topped the Billboard charts with Contemporary Jazz, R&B, and Gospel albums. His live performances are legendary - captivating and heart stirring.

Purchase Tickets for Spyro Gyra & Jonathan Butler or at all Ticketmaster outlets, the NOKIA Theatre Times Square Box Office located at 1515 Broadway, or by calling Ticketmaster at 1-800-745-3000.

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Saturday, March 27 - Al Jarreau with special guest Christian Scott - 8pm - Nokia Theater, NYC

Al Jarreau's distinctive voice has enthralled fans for more than 30 years. His passion, emotional honesty and astonishing sound have contributed mightily to the popularity jazz vocals enjoy today. Perhaps more than any popular vocalist, he embodies the notion of the voice as a pure instrument. Recognized with 6 GRAMMY Awards, he is the only vocalist in history to net GRAMMY Awards in three different categories (jazz, pop, and R&B, respectively). Al Jarreau is one the greatest jazz vocalists alive.

Twenty six year old, New Orleans native, Christian Scott is a GRAMMY nominated jazz trumpeter, composer and producer. He has been heralded by JazzTimes magazine as "the Architect of a new commercially viable fusion" and "Jazz's young style God." NPR stated "Christian Scott Ushers in New Era of Jazz." Billboard Magazine called Scott's major label debut, Rewind That "arguably the most remarkable premiere the genre has seen in the last decade." The magazine highlighted Scott as one of the "10 Faces to Watch in 2006" and featured him on its cover twice that year. His critically acclaimed first album earned him the GRAMMY nomination for Best Contemporary Jazz Album in 2006. His forthcoming release (March 30, 2010 Yesterday You Said Tomorrow draws on Miles Davis' approach to trumpet, with Christian Scott extending the master's Harmon mute trademark speaking style into the even more breathy 'whisper technique', as well as encompassing hip hop rhythms and Radiohead-inspired chord structures.

Purchase Tickets for Al Jarreau and Christian Scott or at all Ticketmaster outlets, the NOKIA Theatre Times Square Box Office located at 1515 Broadway, or by calling Ticketmaster at 1-800-745-3000.

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Sunday, March 28 - Patti Austin with special guests Tuck and Patti - 7:30pm - Nokia Theater, NYC

Native New Yorker Patti Austin made her professional debut at the Apollo Theater when she was 5 years old. Quincy Jones and Dinah Washington have proclaimed themselves her Godparents. She's had over twenty songs on the Billboard charts. She has sung duets with George Benson, Michael Jackson, Luther Vandross. In 2008, fifty-three years after getting her first record contract, Patti Austin was awarded her first Grammy, winning Best Jazz Vocal Album for Avant Gershwin at the 50th annual Grammy Awards. The award came for her ninth nomination in that category.

If ever a musical pair embodied the term "simpatico" it would be guitarist Tuck Andress and singer Patti Cathcart. More than 20 years into their marriage and musical partnership, Tuck & Patti continue to make beautiful and impressive music together while nicely preserving the art of minimalism. Tuck & Patti aren't your ordinary duet team, however. Patti Cathcart has one of the warmest, richest voices in jazz. Her honey-toned, nimble vocals are matched by her partner and husband Tuck Andress' guitar artistry. With his technique of plucking, strumming and slapping the strings, often with both hands, he makes the guitar sound like several people playing together, not just one.

Purchase Tickets Here for Patti Austin & Tuck and Patti or at all Ticketmaster outlets, the NOKIA Theatre Times Square Box Office located at 1515 Broadway, or by calling Ticketmaster at 1-800-745-3000.

Peace and light
Lois Gilbert
Managing Director
Jazzcorner®.com

Festival du Blues Autour du Zinc - BEAUVAIS in France - du 10 au 21 mars 2010

Festival du Blues Autour du Zinc - BEAUVAIS - du 10 au 21 mars 2010




Listened to today all over the world, blues, folk song, gospel, jazz, rock, soul, rap, these styles of music, stemming from the meeting between diverse musical traditions, still grow rich of the present, travel and lend themselves to all the interbreedings.
The opening in all these musics, we want, for 15 years, make it to you share in a universe of colors, party and conviviality which characterizes the festival since the beginning.
This is in the spirit that Miossec will open the festival this year.
It is very also why we again invited artists, with whom we weaved privileged links: Eric Sardinas in the caustic energy will perform at Ouvre-Boîte, before sharing the stage of Elispace with Popa Chubby; also Ramon Goose and Matt Schofield, Ian Siegal, Donald Ray Johnson and The Revolutionaires…

Our support for the Blues au Féminin is more than ever of current events with Bernadette Seacrest, jazzy in devil, Demi Evans with her pop funk light, and Sharrie Williams, princess of the rockin' gospel blues.
Other big name, Rickie Lee Jones, author composer engaged, whose voice kinked Bob Dylan and Tom Waits …Do not miss either Izïa Higelin, in the rock so explosive and sensual as whose concert, I am on there, is going to stand out.

Bars open their doors on March 12th and 13th, two days during which you can be allowed carry, of measures in measures, according to your musical influences. And why not dance late under the night sky !

Whatever are your choices, that this programming relights again some stars so that they shine in your eyes and reflect thousands of blue notes.

Welcome to this 15th edition and good festival in all !

Laurent Macimba

Low Down Dirty Blues Show at Northlight in Chicago

By Randal Myler and Dan Wheetman

MAY 27, 2010 - JULY 3, 2010

This sizzling and sassy world premiere musical comes straight to Northlight from the creators of the hit shows Fire on the Mountain and It Ain't Nothin' But the Blues.  For decades, Blues artists have captivated audiences with the Dirty Blues—music packed with passion and soul—along with innuendo, insinuation and, above all, humor!  Featuring songs made (in)famous by the likes of Mae West, Muddy Waters, Ma Rainey, Sophie Tucker, Howlin' Wolf, Pearl Bailey and many others, Low Down Dirty Blues is a rousing, raucous, musical good time!

Get your tickets today for this Chicago Blues music extravaganza!

The ESSENCE Radio Show hosted by Kara Johnstad! enjoy

Bob Corritore Blues Newsletter Mud Morganfield Friday night with Rhythm Room All-Stars, PBS Blues Blast, Hall of Fame inductees

February 25, 2010

• Mud Morganfield to perform with the Rhythm Room All-Stars for Blues Blast pre-party this Friday at the Rhythm Room. It is uncanny how Mud Morganfield can summon up the sound and presence of his late father, Muddy Waters. A chilling singer and bandleader, Mud's powerhouse performance at the 2009 Lucerne Blues Festival swept the audience off their feet. Mud comes to Phoenix to join with the Rhythm Room All-Stars (Bob Corritore, Chris James, Patrick Rynn, Brian Fahey, and Johnny Rapp) on Friday, February 26th, for an evening of no nonsense blues in the true spirit of Muddy Waters. This night also serves as the preparty for the Blues Blast Festival 2010!  
• Blues Blast 2010, Phoenix's Blues Festival! Each February the Phoenix Blues Society hosts its annual blues festival, called "Blues Blast" (not to be confused with the online magazine of the same name), at the Mesa Amphitheater, with an interesting program of national and home grown talent. Blues Blast 2010 happens on Saturday, February 26th and features Big James & The Chicago Playboys, Candye Kane, The Insomniacs, The Sugar Thieves, The Jump Back Brothers, and Tom Walbank and Arthur Migliazza. Gates open at 10am with music from 11am til around 7pm. Later that night the Rhythm Room will host a Blues Blast After-party and Celebrity Jam with the Rhythm Room All-Stars and many special guests. To read more about Blues Blast 2010 click here.
• Wilroy Sanders RIP - Birthdate unkown - February 16, 2010 Beloved Memphis blues guitarist and singer Wilroy Sanders passed away on Tuesday after a battle with lung cancer. He was 76, Wilroy played in the Binghampton Blues Boys, formed and led The Fieldstones, and owned the Memphis blues bar, Green’s Lounge. though a wonderful down home singer and guitarist, Wilroy would never achieve great fame. He did make some very memorable records which appeared on the XL, High Water, HighTone, and Shangri-La labels. To read more about Wilroy's passing click here. For the Blues World article about Wilroy lick here.
• Blues Foundation announces 2010 Hall of Fame Inductees. Each year the Blues Foundation honors past and present artists, recordings, authors, books, and other notable achievements in the blues. These honors are presented in a private special awards dinner in Memphis, on Wednesday, May 5th, 2010, the night before the Blues Music Awards. This year's recipients have recently been announced and include Charlie Musselwhite, Lonnie Brooks, Bonnie Raitt, W.C. Handy,Gus Cannon, Sonny Payne, Amos Milburn, and many others. For a full list of inductees click here. Congratulations to all of the 2010 Blues Hall Of Fame inductees!
• New Live William Clarke CD now available! Jeanette Lodovici, the widow of the late West Coast harmonica master William Clarke, has lovingly been releasing her late husband's recorded work in a series of collectors CDs. The latest installment is called William Clarke / Live Bootleg Cassette Anthology, and features surprisingly good sounding board tapes of live shows from 1991 and 1996. The 1996 shows were recorded on his last tour just weeks before William's untimely passing at the age of 45, with a band consisting of Paul Bryant, Rick Reed and Brian Fahey. This CD is a wonderful reminder of the powerful talent of this harmonica great. To read more about this release click here.
• The Flamingos rock on YouTube! The Flamingos were one of the greatest harmony groups of the 1950s and their stage show, complete with choreography, was just wonderful. Please enjoy this example of their work as they perform the jump blues song "Jump Children" (click here to see).  Though poorly lip synced, this film clip has some of the best stage energy ever!

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