Dr. Lonnie Smith has called Wil Blades “the future,” anointing him the heir apparent to “carry on the legend and the legacy of the organ.” Blades has grown to be one of the most in-demand Hammond organ players. Blades has worked with legendary musicians including John Lee Hooker, John Scofield, Nicholas Payton, Idris Muhammad, Charlie Hunter, Bernard Purdie, Terrace Martin, Melvin Sparks, Joe Louis Walker, Karl Denson, Stanton Moore and many more.
Jeff Parker is recognized as one of contemporary music’s most versatile and innovative electric guitarists and composers. With a prolific output characterized by musical ideas of angularity and logic, he uses ideas informed by innovations and trends in both popular and experimental forms. He creates works that explore and exploit the contrary relationships between tradition and technology, improvisation and composition, the familiar and the abstract.
Roy McCurdy is a living legend. He’s toured and recorded with veritable Who’s Who of jazz greats and groups, including Kenny Burrell, Joe Williams, Sonny Clark, Jackie McLean, Betty Carter, Kenny Dorham, Bobby Timmons, Ron Carter, Bobby Hutchinson, The Count Basie Orchestra, Donald Byrd, Herbie Hancock, Coleman Hawkins, Joe Henderson, Milt Jackson, Oscar Peterson, Bud Powell, Jimmy Smith, Horace Silver, Kenny Drew, Eddie Harris, Stanley Turrentine, Hubert Laws, Charles Lloyd, Blue Mitchell, Sarah Vaughn, Ella Fitzgerald + more.
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