blank" href="http://www.slide.com/item_finder?referrer=hlnk&pci id=kbUXCl09DMfgnBjLFAZQFi4iQ-ObsjTpYnrTPO24d9FdV7Np6QeGnat9E O9rxJJp&dir=0&view=image" Brooklyn born guitarist,singer,songwriter...dRUnkodeLicbLuesman,Jaime Dolce has been playing professionally since 1988 gigging in New York City first as lead guitarist of METROPOL & later on as front man of EL KaBoNG & later iNNeRSOLe.Soon after Jaime was asked to join the Mason Casey Blues Band (Northern BLues Records.Wilson Pickett.&ex-Popa Chubby productions/Dixie Frog Records)as lead guitarist. Mason Casey still calls Jaime his “Blues Brother†and favorite guitarist,always encouraging him to take his classic yet modern style further.. Between iNNeRSOLe!&Mason's band,Jaime was playing regularly at all the New York City Blues & Rock dives in the '90's..Dan Lynch,Nightingale Bar, Manny's Car Wash, the Bitter End, St.Marks Bar&Grill, Mondo Cane, McGoverns, Finians Rainbow,etc..."it was like blues University" being so lucky as to share the stage with many of N.Y.C.'s finest in Blues, Rock&Funk such as Arthur Neilson (guitar:Shemeka Copeland), Keith Carlock (Drums: Steely Dan, Sting, The Blues Brothers, Leni Stern...) Dan Hickey (Drums: Joe Cocker,Cindy Lauper, John Paris, Joe Jackson, They Might Be Giants...), Lee Finkelstein (Drums:the FuNk FiLharmonic,The Blues Brothers, Tower Of Power...) Charley Torres (Bass: Edgar Winter, Rick Deringer..)..Little Buster..Popa Chubby, Popsie Holmes... Delta Blues & Urban Funk are the main ingredients to Jaime's Rock/BLues/fUNk sound..often compaired to Jimi Hendrix,Stevie Ray Vaughan,The Allman Brothers Band, G.Love&Specail Sauce, Ben Harper,etc... In 1998 Jaime released his first record PURPLE BLUES, recorded in Brooklyn N.Y.at Bruce Gordon Studios with Dan Hickey(Joe Cocker,John Paris,They might Be Giants..etc)on drums & Dean Zucchero(Popa Chubby)on Bass. By 1998 Jaime found himself touring through Italy..Leading iNNeRSOLe all over the boot..with two new “Sole Brothersâ€, drummer Matteo Sodini and bassist Stefano Castelli..rocking just about every fUNky little pub & cLub to just about every Festival from Switzerland to Sicily... ~1999: Pistoia Blues Festival opening for Lucky Peterson, Johnny Lang, Deep Purple. ~2000: Alcamo Summer BLues Festival(Alcamo,Sicily)opening for Mick Taylor (John Mayal's Blues Breakers, Rolling Stones..); Bologna Blues festival opening for Nine Below Zero and even a small tour backing up Mick Abrahams (Blodwyn Pig and Jethro Tull). In the midst of all of this Jaime was also joining Mason Casey whenever possible for various gigs & tours throughout The Netherlands,Belgium & France. In 2005 after coming to see Jaime Dolce’s Innersole live, Zucchero Sugar Fornaciari(Italy's most famous rock/pop/"blues"star) himself invited Jaime & his band over to his Lunisiana home to jam on some new ideas and to play as special guests at the “2005 Zucchero fan club raduno†in Modena (Italy) where Zucchero himself came out to introduce the band... in 2006 Jaime was asked to join the Davide Van De Sfroos Band (cult following italian folk/rock songwriter~usually at least 2 or 3,000 people at his shows)as lead guitarist;having the honor of sharing the special guest spot with blues harmonica hero Sugar Blue (MiSS YOU!Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Willie Dixon...). With the Davide Van De Sfroos Band Jaime played:The 2006 French Quarter Festival in New Orleans(USA), S.Severino Blues(Italy), the Smeraldo Theatre(Milan,itaLy),Palabasket Bellinzona(Switzerland), Rock & Folk Festival Chiasso(Switzerland), Palamazda Milano(8,000 seats!full)Italy...etc. In 2007 Jaime & his iNNeRSOLe were invited to the PiSTOiA BLUES 2007 BLues Festival to pLay tribute to Mr.JiMi HENDRiX celebrating the 40th anniversary of the release of ARE YOU EXPERiENCED.....after playing out the rest of the summer with DVDS & with iNNeRSOLe,featuring Andrea TaraveLLi on bass,Jaime decided to leave the DVDS Band & get back to America where he is now gigging with various rhythm sections.The latest iNNeRSOLe shows have featured such great musicians as Jeremy Baum(Shameka Copeland&many others)on Hammond Organ, Eric Udell (tHE BLUES BROTHERS&many more)on bass & tHE FUNkiest of drummers=Lee FiNkeLStEiN(tHE BLUEs BROTHERs,tOWER oF POWER,etc),&ViCtor Jones(Chaka Khan,etc..) & AdRian Harpham to name a few...aAAnd on speciaL occasions the MiGhty AaroN GaRoOVy on SaxophoNE... the latest news is the long awaited "second album" (or is the third???)...~PEACES~ {feAt:ANdrea TaraveLLi pLaying bass on~CitROEN SUZiE&Me~,JeREMy bAUM on OrGaN&Key BoARd,AaRON GaROovY on Saxophone..&SNiFFy PaNtaLONE on dRUMs!}is in the printing stage...a presto!!. peace&Love&iNNeRSOLe&On&On&ON....... here we are~Live at thE WeStport BLuEs ViEWs&BBQ~BLuEs FestivaL,Sept.2008~with DaN HiCkey on dRUMs & ERiC UdeLL oN baSS...+ Aaron Garoovy sittiNg iN on Sax... ..
...and here with my BROteLLi at tHE CoLFeLiCE BLuEs fEStivaL in ItaLy,2007~Matteo SoDiNi on dRUMs &Dr.ANdRea TaraveLLi on baSS... aaAnd here i am back in the DVDS(Davide Van De Sfroos)daze...in Sardegna,aug.2007...kinda fLippiN'out.