Wil Blades Trio
featuring
Wil Blades (Organ - Stanton Moore Trio)
Simon Lott (Drums - Robert Walter's 20th Congress)
Kai Lyon (Guitar - Wil Blades Trio)
Wil Blades Trio
Jazz organ authority, the legendary Dr. Lonnie Smith has called Wil Blades “the future,” anointing him the heir apparent to “carry on the legend [and] the legacy of the B-3 organ.”
Blades shoulders that responsibility with nonchalant virtuosity and infectious groove on his second recording, Field Notes (released August 2014 from The Royal Potato Family). The album’s nine songs report back from the rich incubator that is t he road, with pieces written from snippets recorded at soundchecks, gigs and jam sessions—field recordings of the jazz trio in its natural habitat. On his first full trio outing, Blades is joined by guitarist Jeff Parker (Tortoise, Joey DeFrancesco, Joshua Redman) and drummer Simon Lott (Charlie Hunter, Will Bernard), both musicians who share Blades’ grounding in tradition and urge to push it forward.
“Both those guys can play straight-ahead jazz, they can funk, they can take it out, they can go in so many different directions,” Blades says. “I always had the idea in my mind that doing a trio with Jeff Parker and Simon Lott would have a cool vibe and would be very open.”
Field Notes takes full advantage of that versatility and openness, exploring the full breadth of the organ trio’s potential. “On this record, I was definitely trying to come out of the lineage but then trying to look forward at the same time,” Blades says. “My whole thing is having a foot in the past and trying to have a foot in the future and to bring those two worlds together as much as possible.”
At the outset of the album, Blades is dubbed “the magnificent, wonderful, sometimes tragic Wil Blades” by a critic whose opinion is almost as important as Dr. Lonnie’s: Blades’ eight-year-old daughter, whose grandiose introduction of her father was captured while she was “hopped up on sugar and saying crazy, hilarious stuff.” That intro showcases Blades’ sense of humor, setting a warm, genial tone that carries throughout the CD’s many moods. Her pronouncement leads directly into the shuffling blues of “Miller’s Time .” The blues is a deep vein that runs through the entire album, straight through to the classic “I Ge t the Blues When It Rains,” which closes the album on a note of New Orleans soul.
$15 adv
21+
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featuring
Wil Blades (Organ - Stanton Moore Trio)
Simon Lott (Drums - Robert Walter's 20th Congress)
Kai Lyon (Guitar - Wil Blades Trio)
Wil Blades Trio
Jazz organ authority, the legendary Dr. Lonnie Smith has called Wil Blades “the future,” anointing him the heir apparent to “carry on the legend [and] the legacy of the B-3 organ.”
Blades shoulders that responsibility with nonchalant virtuosity and infectious groove on his second recording, Field Notes (released August 2014 from The Royal Potato Family). The album’s nine songs report back from the rich incubator that is t he road, with pieces written from snippets recorded at soundchecks, gigs and jam sessions—field recordings of the jazz trio in its natural habitat. On his first full trio outing, Blades is joined by guitarist Jeff Parker (Tortoise, Joey DeFrancesco, Joshua Redman) and drummer Simon Lott (Charlie Hunter, Will Bernard), both musicians who share Blades’ grounding in tradition and urge to push it forward.
“Both those guys can play straight-ahead jazz, they can funk, they can take it out, they can go in so many different directions,” Blades says. “I always had the idea in my mind that doing a trio with Jeff Parker and Simon Lott would have a cool vibe and would be very open.”
Field Notes takes full advantage of that versatility and openness, exploring the full breadth of the organ trio’s potential. “On this record, I was definitely trying to come out of the lineage but then trying to look forward at the same time,” Blades says. “My whole thing is having a foot in the past and trying to have a foot in the future and to bring those two worlds together as much as possible.”
At the outset of the album, Blades is dubbed “the magnificent, wonderful, sometimes tragic Wil Blades” by a critic whose opinion is almost as important as Dr. Lonnie’s: Blades’ eight-year-old daughter, whose grandiose introduction of her father was captured while she was “hopped up on sugar and saying crazy, hilarious stuff.” That intro showcases Blades’ sense of humor, setting a warm, genial tone that carries throughout the CD’s many moods. Her pronouncement leads directly into the shuffling blues of “Miller’s Time .” The blues is a deep vein that runs through the entire album, straight through to the classic “I Ge t the Blues When It Rains,” which closes the album on a note of New Orleans soul.
$15 adv
21+
Wil Blades Trio
featuring
Wil Blades (Organ - Stanton Moore Trio)
Simon Lott (Drums - Robert Walter's 20th Congress)
Kai Lyon (Guitar - Wil Blades Trio)
Wil Blades Trio
Jazz organ authority, the legendary Dr. Lonnie Smith has called Wil Blades “the future,” anointing him the heir apparent to “carry on the legend [and] the legacy of the B-3 organ.”
Blades shoulders that responsibility with nonchalant virtuosity and infectious groove on his second recording, Field Notes (released August 2014 from The Royal Potato Family). The album’s nine songs report back from the rich incubator that is t he road, with pieces written from snippets recorded at soundchecks, gigs and jam sessions—field recordings of the jazz trio in its natural habitat. On his first full trio outing, Blades is joined by guitarist Jeff Parker (Tortoise, Joey DeFrancesco, Joshua Redman) and drummer Simon Lott (Charlie Hunter, Will Bernard), both musicians who share Blades’ grounding in tradition and urge to push it forward.
“Both those guys can play straight-ahead jazz, they can funk, they can take it out, they can go in so many different directions,” Blades says. “I always had the idea in my mind that doing a trio with Jeff Parker and Simon Lott would have a cool vibe and would be very open.”
Field Notes takes full advantage of that versatility and openness, exploring the full breadth of the organ trio’s potential. “On this record, I was definitely trying to come out of the lineage but then trying to look forward at the same time,” Blades says. “My whole thing is having a foot in the past and trying to have a foot in the future and to bring those two worlds together as much as possible.”
At the outset of the album, Blades is dubbed “the magnificent, wonderful, sometimes tragic Wil Blades” by a critic whose opinion is almost as important as Dr. Lonnie’s: Blades’ eight-year-old daughter, whose grandiose introduction of her father was captured while she was “hopped up on sugar and saying crazy, hilarious stuff.” That intro showcases Blades’ sense of humor, setting a warm, genial tone that carries throughout the CD’s many moods. Her pronouncement leads directly into the shuffling blues of “Miller’s Time .” The blues is a deep vein that runs through the entire album, straight through to the classic “I Ge t the Blues When It Rains,” which closes the album on a note of New Orleans soul.
$15 adv
21+
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featuring
Wil Blades (Organ - Stanton Moore Trio)
Simon Lott (Drums - Robert Walter's 20th Congress)
Kai Lyon (Guitar - Wil Blades Trio)
Wil Blades Trio
Jazz organ authority, the legendary Dr. Lonnie Smith has called Wil Blades “the future,” anointing him the heir apparent to “carry on the legend [and] the legacy of the B-3 organ.”
Blades shoulders that responsibility with nonchalant virtuosity and infectious groove on his second recording, Field Notes (released August 2014 from The Royal Potato Family). The album’s nine songs report back from the rich incubator that is t he road, with pieces written from snippets recorded at soundchecks, gigs and jam sessions—field recordings of the jazz trio in its natural habitat. On his first full trio outing, Blades is joined by guitarist Jeff Parker (Tortoise, Joey DeFrancesco, Joshua Redman) and drummer Simon Lott (Charlie Hunter, Will Bernard), both musicians who share Blades’ grounding in tradition and urge to push it forward.
“Both those guys can play straight-ahead jazz, they can funk, they can take it out, they can go in so many different directions,” Blades says. “I always had the idea in my mind that doing a trio with Jeff Parker and Simon Lott would have a cool vibe and would be very open.”
Field Notes takes full advantage of that versatility and openness, exploring the full breadth of the organ trio’s potential. “On this record, I was definitely trying to come out of the lineage but then trying to look forward at the same time,” Blades says. “My whole thing is having a foot in the past and trying to have a foot in the future and to bring those two worlds together as much as possible.”
At the outset of the album, Blades is dubbed “the magnificent, wonderful, sometimes tragic Wil Blades” by a critic whose opinion is almost as important as Dr. Lonnie’s: Blades’ eight-year-old daughter, whose grandiose introduction of her father was captured while she was “hopped up on sugar and saying crazy, hilarious stuff.” That intro showcases Blades’ sense of humor, setting a warm, genial tone that carries throughout the CD’s many moods. Her pronouncement leads directly into the shuffling blues of “Miller’s Time .” The blues is a deep vein that runs through the entire album, straight through to the classic “I Ge t the Blues When It Rains,” which closes the album on a note of New Orleans soul.
$15 adv
21+
show less
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