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Marble Garden

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Marble Garden is a Kalamazoo Jam-band combining progressive blues with Southern-style Soul and jazz-fusion. Leroy Horn's soulful vocals complimented by the dual prowess of Angelo Santelli's slide guitar and Leroy's own guitar, Tom Eldred's B3 organ layering the funk with lush overdriven chords, or at times honking on the alto sax, with Matt Triple Forte's bass acting as a third guitar laying down growling subsonic grooves, and guests propel the band with a funki-fried percussive force. From straight up blues, stompin' like a potato masher to jazz-fusion jamming to intense, feedback-laced grooves, Marble Garden is a unique jam-band playing music you can't hear anywhere else.You can contact us with bookings, or anything in general at [email protected]

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Member Since: 21/03/2005
Band Members: Angelo Santelli - Lead & slide guitar, Moog electronics, cuica
Nick "Leroy" Horn - Lead vocals and lead guitar
Matt Houtkooper - Electric bass, backing vocals
Tom Eldred - Hammond organ, Fender Rhodes electric piano, Hohner Clavinet and on occasion, alto saxopwn
With:
Jarad Selner- Soprano, alto and tenor saxopwns
Josh Armagost- Drums
Influences: The Allman Brothers Band, The Mahavishnu Orchestra, Santana, The Meters, The Derek Trucks Band, Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Herbie Hancock/Headhunters, King Curtis & The Kingpins, B.B. King, Albert King, Freddie King, Sonny Boy Williamson II, Elmore James, Duane Allman, Berry Oakley, Jaimoe, Black Sabbath, Jimi Hendrix Experience & Band of Gypsies, The Doors, Grateful Dead, Pink Floyd, Weather Report, Frank Zappa/Mothers of Invention, Galactic, Cream, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Captain Zig-Zag Zouave, Electric Flag, Deep Purple, Return To Forever, The Detroit Sex Machines, Danny Gatton, Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, Airto Moreia, John McLaughlin, Ravi Shankar, Derek & The Dominoes, Led Zeppelin, Tool, Peter Green & Fleetwood Mac, John Lee Hooker, Wayne Shorter, Janis Joplin, Steely Dan, Billy Preston, Rage Against the Machine, Herbie Mann, Bela Fleck & The Flecktones, Billy Cobham, Pharoah Sanders, Bob Moog, Traditional Irish Music, Birds, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Brazilian Samba & Bossa Nova, Aretha Franklin, Cirocco, Muddy Waters, Reese Wynans, J.B. Lenior, Chick Corea, Joe Zawinul, Jan Hammer, Jerry Goodman, Jean-Luc Ponty, Narada Micheal Walden, Eric Gravatt, Robert Johnson, Little Walter, Howlin' Wolf, Son House, Kofi Burbridge, Gregg Allman, Chuck Leavall, Butch Trucks, Warren Haynes, Michael Burks, Bunsareli & the Buns Brigade, Nobuo Uematsu, Koji Kondo, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Stravinksy, The Don Ellis Orchestra, Dickey Betts & Great Southern, Jam Samich, Four Finger Five, Pedro Arevalo, Beeftone Frog
Sounds Like: The Underground Theme from Super Mario Bros. 3
Record Label: a marker

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Marble Garden album on the way!

I'd like to report that we'll be releasing our self-titled debut album in February 2009. We'll be going into the studio for 4 days before Christamahanaukwanzaaka this year.The album will be available ...
Posted by on Sun, 30 Nov 2008 08:19:00 GMT