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Eddie Roberts, Ike Stubblefield, & Jermal Watson
Genre: Funk/Jazz
Cover: $8 Adv / $10 DOS
Ages: 21+
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Check out a video of Eddie Roberts and Ike Stubblefield live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bNxE0PQegw
Eddie Roberts (The New Mastersounds):
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.
In 2007 Eddie paid his first visit to New Orleans, with The New Mastersounds. The band played three shows over the first weekend of Jazzfest, but while the others went home, Eddie stayed on for an extra week and found himself guesting with a host of jazz and funk artists at late-night shows around the city including Galactic, Papa Mali, Johnny Vidocavitch, Idris Muhammed, The Greyboy Allstars. Later that summer Eddie joined Stanton Moore's trio for a festival gig, alongside keyboard wizard Robert Walter.
At time of writing Eddie has recently completed ?Plug & Play? the The New Mastersounds? fifth studio album, and has just been hired to produce an album for French funk/afrobeat outfit Shaolin Temple Defenders.
Never one to sit back and put his feet up, Eddie tells us that the follow-up to Roughneck -- provisionally entitled "Volume 2" -- can be expected later this year, and will feature collaborations with vocalists Leigh Kenny and Rhianna Kenny, vocalists with stadium techno act Faithless.
Ike Stubblefield:
Hammond B3 virtuoso Ike Stubblefield is a music industry legend. With almost 50 years in the business, you may think he's seen and done it all, but he's just getting started.
He cut his teeth backing Motown legends like the Four Tops, The Temptations, Marvin Gaye, Martha Reeves, Stevie Wonder and Rare Earth. He lent his soulful R&B style to Al Green, Ike & Tina Turner, Curtis Mayfield, B.B. King, The Pointer Sisters and George Benson, and helped create the classic B3 sound that others would imitate for generations to come. In 2010, he collaborated with Grammy-winning Atlanta soul man Cee Lo Green, recording organ and keyboards on 9 tracks.
These days, the B3 icon and mini-Moog master stays busy jamming with Papa Mali in New Orleans, rocking with Big Hat in Nashville and producing out of his Atlanta studio. Drawing from his recent time with the Derek Trucks Band and years on the road as a musician-for-hire, Stubblefield is finding his true passion collaborating with old friends and bringing the loose ends of an illustrious career together on his new project, The Ike Stubblefield Trio.
"I'm combining all elements of my 46 years of playing," said Stubblefield. "My style's kind of all over the place so it's not a jam band, or jazz or funk necessarily, but it has all those elements."
Stubblefield's craft and ingenuity on the keys landed him a plethora of jobs within the music field. Always busy with a new project, his career twists and turns have involved writing and scoring music for commercials, TV shows and film; founding clubs in Vancouver, Toledo and Atlanta; and performing as one of the world's premier organ players.
"The B3 organ at the hands of a player like Ike Stubblefield becomes a force of nature," one reviewer wrote following his headlining of the 2011 Savannah Music Festival.
A fixture of San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury neighborhood in the early 1970s, Stubblefield broadened his sound to fit the rock stylings of Janis Joplin, Eric Clapton, Jerry Garcia, Rod Stewart and Boz Scaggs. His reputation as a musician's musician ensured his spot at the top of industry insiders' lists of the most sought-after supporting band mates.
After traveling the world as a performing artist, Stubblefield took to the studio in 1976, producing, composing and writing songs with the likes of Phil Spector and Quincy Jones. Other world-famous collaborators would include Jim Capaldi of Traffic and singer-songwriter/guitarist Larry Lee.
Following 13 years of studio work through the 80s, Stubblefield spent much of the 90s performing in jazz clubs across the Pacific Northwest like Vancouver's The Purple Onion and Seattle's Jazz Alley with his band Is Not Was. After relocating to Atlanta in 2001, he hit the ground running playing Sandy Springs jazz hub Café 290 as well as The Roxy, Variety Playhouse and The Dogwood Festival.
But no matter the job, Stubblefield continues to earn accolades from his peers and critics alike.
Jermal Watson (New Orleans):
INFO COMING SOON!!!
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LocationAsheville Music Hall (View)
31 Patton Ave.
Asheville, NC 28801
United States
Categories
| Minimum Age: 21 |
| Kid Friendly: No |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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