Member Since: 10/3/2006
Band Website: patrickhazell.com
Band Members: Many of Patrick Hazell's recordings feature him playing solo on piano, keyboards, mallet instruments, percussion, harmonicas, and vocals (usually all at the same time).....................................................On
recordings featuring band music, the other musicians include the following:Drums and Percussion: Will Parsons, Steve Hayes; Guitars: Gary Buck, Bo Ramsey, Joe Price; Bass: Rico Cicalo, T-Bone McPherson; Saxophone: Dan Magarrell; Background Vocals: Sally Weisenburg..................................................
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ES FOR DUMMIES
By Lonnie Brooks, Cub Coda, Wayne Baker Brooks
IDG Books, 1998, page 21-22, PIANO BLUES
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"While the guitar wasn't introduced to the blues until the 1920s, the PIANO had been part of the blues music mix since the turn of the century, decades before the blues was recorded.........PIANO BLUES encompasses myriad blues offshoots, including turn-of-the-century ragtime style (similar to the piano music heard in the movie The Sting), boogie-woogie (an up-tempo style played mostly with the left hand and having a pronounced eight-beats-to-the-bar figure), New Orleans second line (a hip-shaking blues piano style combining heavily syncopated bass notes laced with Caribbean rhythms), barrelhouse blues (a hard-pounding form of boogie-woogie), West Coast jazz stylings (what we call "supper club" blues), and Chicago blues….........…Both the lead (or solo) and rhythm parts can be simultaneously played on a piano, which make it an almost self-contained combo. The piano can, however, also fit perfectly into most any blues band configuration. Current practitioners of piano blues include Ron Levy, Dave Alexander, Pinetop Perkins, and PATRICK HAZELL"
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THE BACKWATER SIDE CHANNEL OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER NORTH OF BURLINGTON, IOWA AND THE TRADEWINDS CABIN---HAZELL'S WINTER ABODE IN 2008
Influences: Alicia Keys' new "Diary" CD is knocking me out--great stuff. In addition to this, my latest musical studies (May 14, '08) are the music of Sun Ra, Ravi Shankar, James Reece Europe, King Oliver, and the original piano roll recordings of Debussey, Ravel, Scriabin, and Enrique Granados. Along with being in love with Imogene Heap, I have also been listening a lot to the late 1950s-early 60s music of Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers; the music of Cape Verde Island singer--Maria De Barros; Natacha Atlas; and have rediscovered the music of Bela Bartok. Also, for me, a newfound discovery--the incredible music of Lily Boulanger--the sister of the famous teacher and composer, Nadia Boulanger. Lily died at the age of 24, but left behind some masterpieces. I highly recommend this early 20th century French composer. And last, but not least--in constant rotation in my CD player--the jazz music of Claudia Acuna and her band led by Jason Lindner --really great contemporary jazz....................Several of my long time influences have been Hadda Brooks, Pete Johnson, Red Prysock, Duke Ellington, Will Parsons, Jen Gloeckner, Jeff Weber, Nadezhda Utkina, Sergey Kungurov, Udmurtian/Russian Folk, traditional Middle Eastern, Bjork, T-Bone Walker, Chuck Berry, Alanis Morrisette, Sergei Prokofiev (especially his piano works and the 3rd Piano Concerto), Huddie Ledbetter (aka Leadbelly), Omme Kalthoum, Paco De Lucia, El Cameron, Thelonius Monk, Marvin Gaye, June Christy, Harry and Jeannie West, Gene Autry, Eric Satie, Bahri Karacay, Chants of all kind, The Four Tops, Beethoven, Native American Music, Villa Lobos, Gary Buck, Enrique Granados, Big Joe Turner, John Cage, Howlin Wolf, Miles Davis, Faure, Josquin Des Pres, Marchaut, Charlie Parker, Jimmy Reed, John Coltrane, Fats Waller, Norah Jones, Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy, Stan Kenton, Bo Ramsey, Joe Price, The Everly Brothers, Hank Williams Sr., Curtis Mayfield, Clifton Chenier, Sonny Terry, Scriabin, Mussorgsky, Little Walter, Louis Armstrong, Sidney Bechet, J.S. Bach, Igor Stravinsky, Smokey Robinson, Ravi Shankar, Ornette Coleman, Otis Spann, Muddy Waters, Johannes Brahms, Jimmy Lunceford, Louie Jordan, B.B.King, , Willie Dixon, Richie Valens, James Brown, Nina Simone, and many, many others ............................................................
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Sounds Like: My own sound---and it goes a lot of directions.---I've been inspired by many artists, but I've never been good at copying others.
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Record Label: Blue Rhythm Recordings
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