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East Bay Soul

About Me

When East Bay Soul hits the stage be ready to funk your world! East Bay Soul is a combination of instrumental soul funk and rhythm and blues vocals built on a design to discover new achievements rather than extend the past. Wide ranging, East Bay Soul is set to lead this new soundscape with their sharpened expertise from being on countless stages worldwide. East Bay Soul is classic and forward thinking. With combined musical achievements the horn and rhythm section is headed up by trumpeter and Grammy® and Emmy® Nominated Writer/Arranger Greg Adams. The lyrics are crafted and performed by the finest soul and R&B vocalists today!

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Member Since: 12/7/2007
Band Website: http://www.eastbaysoul.com
Band Members: Featuring Greg Adams and Lee Thornburg, with Michael Paulo, Johnnie Bamont, Brian Allen, James Wirrrick, Joey Navarro, Johnny Sandoval, Evan Stone
Influences:
Sounds Like: Greg Adams was recently quoted in an interview: "You try to reinvent yourself every time you do a new project, to do something a little different and hopefully learn from the last project and grow. So we looked back at what some might say is my rich tapestry of experience in the music industry. With my funk and R&B background with Tower of Power and the influence it's had over my sound and the sound that I gave to TOP through those 25 years I was in the band.Taking that sound and bringing it into 2008 creating an all new "Metro Jazz", really a new approach of a melting pot of contemporary urban rhythm and sound and combining all the sounds from the city. The ethnic sounds of the trials of tribulations, the hard fought, the victories, sweetness and sadness. It comes through in the music in all forms. It's world, it's metro, it's edgy, it's urban. It's East Bay. It's got Soul!"..
Record Label: Ripa Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

East Bay Soul Headlines at the 19th Annual Berks Jazz Fest!

30 Days and Counting!East Bay Soul Performs at The 19th Annual VF Outlet BERKS JAZZ FEST!After East Bay Soul's successful debut last spring to a packed house at Gerald Veasley's Jazz Base, Berks Jazz...
Posted by on Thu, 05 Mar 2009 13:06:00 GMT

Kettle Moraine Jazz Festival

Hi Friends!On Saturday September 6, Greg Adams returns for the second time to the Kettle Moraine Jazz Festival with East Bay Soul featuring Eric Marienthal and Phil Perry.East Bay Soul performs at 3:4...
Posted by on Thu, 04 Sep 2008 13:07:00 GMT

Gerald Veasley’s Jazz Base-July 24, 2008

Dear Friends,This blog was posted by a concert goer that attended our show in Reading, PA.I think he had a good time! We did!! ...EBS hopes to see you on the road soon! Welcome to Burchie's![ Post a R...
Posted by on Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:19:00 GMT

EAST BAY SOUL SETS LAS VEGAS MUSIC FESTIVAL ABLAZE

East Bay Soul!In its debut, April 27th, at the Summerlin Jazz and Rhythm & Blues Festival, the band launched into motion with a smokin' set sizzling with Adams originals and closing with an instrument...
Posted by on Thu, 08 May 2008 17:26:00 GMT

®R&R - Radio & Records, Inc.

Originally Posted On Jan 16, 2008 3:17 PM ET What Is Hip?By Carol Archer Before you read further, perhaps you should sit, if you will, and draw a couple of very deep breaths. If digitalis or nitroglyc...
Posted by on Wed, 23 Jan 2008 09:26:00 GMT