DREW NUGENT- Piano, Cornet/Trumpet, Vocals, Goofus & Mute-a-phone
PAUL SALTER - Guitar, Banjo & Vocals
FRANNY SMITH - Banjo & Vocals
STEVE BARBONE - Clarinet
MICHAEL SALSBURG - Fiddle
GARY CATTLEY - Bass Fiddle & Tuba, Recording Engineer
SKIP ROHRICH - Drums
MIKE SIKORA - Drums
Influences
Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Fats Waller, Bix Beiderbecke, Red Nichols, Bubber Miley, Earl Hines, Willie "the Lion" Smith, James P. Johnson, Teddy Wilson, Arthur Schutt, Roy Bargy, Joe Sullivan, Zez Confrey, Scott Joplin, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, Hoagy Carmichael, Franky Trumbauer, Al Bowly, Gene Austin, Bing Crosby, Harry Barris, Wingy Manone, Johnny Dunn, Bill Challis, Frank Melrose......hope I didn't miss anyone!
Sounds Like
If you have to ask, ya ain't got it!
~ Thomas "Fats" Waller ~
Well I have loved music ever since I was knee high to a duck. I started out bangin on the keys of a piano my parents bought for me as a child, eventually writing my own little ditties and picking out songs. I began playing violin as at age 9. By age 10 I was picking out songs from the violin onto the piano. My mom was amazed and suggested that she and my father get me lessons. I agreed and it took off from there. I began studying with Joe Benedict, one of the best jazz pianists in the Philadelphia area. To this day that man is still my good friend and mentor. At the tender age of 11, I had become enthralled with Ragtime music due to a family friend who came to our house and played our piano. He beat out a beautiful rendition of "The Entertainer" by Scott Joplin. I was head over heels. I became obsessed with Scott Joplin and Ragtime. It was all that I wanted to play on the keys. At 13 I began to write my own Rags. When I was 14 years old the Ken Burns Jazz series came to PBS. I watched it at the suggestion of my dear mother who said I "needed to broaden my horizons". I did. Boy was I enlightened. I was head over heels AGAIN! But with a new love. Jazz. I fell under the influence of Louis Armstrong and Wynton Marsalis. I was determined now, because of them, to become a Jazz musician. I loved the early Jazz scene in New Orleans, Chicago, and Harlem. I found great influence in pianists such as Jelly Roll Morton, Fats Waller, Earl Hines, James P. Johnson, Willie "the Lion" Smith, Art Tatum, Erroll Garner and Oscar Peterson. There was such romance and charm to those golden days. I was hooked on the Roaring 20's. I became a Jazz freak, researching and researching at all times and hours the history of the music and the personal stories of its musicians. At age 15 after hearing Louis Armstrong's show stopping solo in "Potato Head Blues" I stated then and there that I wanted to play the trumpet. I picked up my influences of singing from Louis Armstrong, Fats Waller, Jelly Roll Morton, Ray Charles, Leon Redbone and Dr. John. Unfortunately I had not found my own voice, but instead insisted on mimicking and imititating the greats I had forementioned. At the age of 19 I began working on finding my own voice, after a patron at a joint I was playing said "your impersonations are impeccable and so lifelike, but what does your real voice sound like?" I replied "I honestly don't know!" So I took to flight trying to find my own voice. I have appeared on Garrison Keillor's "A Prairie Home Companion" back in February 2005 playing and singing in their Talent from 12-20 Contest. From there, many doors opened up for me. I worked for the Delta Queen Steamboat Company as a pianist and singer on the Delta Queen and Mississippi Queen during the summer season of 2006. I also organized and performed in a concert known as the Students for Students Concert at Bloomsburg University. I organized it to bring the musical talent of a handfull of students to the college public. Recently I began my own musical enterprise known as "OFF THE CUFF WITH DREW NUGENT". The goal of this enterprise is to bring Hot Jazz back to the top of the music mainstream. Off the Cuff consists of either myself on solo piano and singing or myself along with a band of variable size, (depending on the demands of the venue). So enjoy the music, pictures and videos. Also feel free to book me or my all star cast for any of your parties, dances, restaurants, clubs, so on and so forth. Just remember one thing... KEEP IT HOT!
Drew Nugent and Paul Penta aboard the Mississippi Queen 2006
A Double Feature: Drew Nugent plays "Waiting for the Robert E. Lee" as the Duck Tour makes its way ashore in Pittsburgh, PA.
RED NICHOLS!!!! THAT'S ALL I CAN SAY ABOUT THAT!!!
The Rhythm Boys!! Possibly my favorite vocal group of the 20's and 30's. Featuring Al Rinker, Harry Barris, and last but not least by a long shot a YOUNG BUT SENSATIONAL BING CROSBY!!!
Now this is a Red Hot Jazzin' Partayyyy! Hollywood Style! First we see Shirley Ross, Harry Barris, then the King's Men.
Drew Nugent & the Midnight Society's Friend Space (Top 15)
Drew Nugent & the Midnight Society has 464 friends.
hey drew! haven't seen you in ages, since the last time you came around with matt to steel city and chaplin's. hey, do a fan of yours a huge favor and please throw down a vote for me once a day at this site to give me a chance to play at austin city limits, and pass the word on, if you can. means the world to me keep jellyrollin' on, friend thanks boog
Thanks for the friendship. This may seem like a line, but it is not. You are like a more outgoing, talented version of me (right down to the love of REALLY old-school music).
If that was not enough, my name is Eric Andrews, and I am often called Andrew by mistake. :)
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Good-bye for now and may God bless.
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Drew Nugent and Paul Penta aboard the Mississippi Queen 2006
A Double Feature: Drew Nugent plays "Waiting for the Robert E. Lee" as the Duck Tour makes its way ashore in Pittsburgh, PA.
RED NICHOLS!!!! THAT'S ALL I CAN SAY ABOUT THAT!!!
The Rhythm Boys!! Possibly my favorite vocal group of the 20's and 30's. Featuring Al Rinker, Harry Barris, and last but not least by a long shot a YOUNG BUT SENSATIONAL BING CROSBY!!!
Now this is a Red Hot Jazzin' Partayyyy! Hollywood Style! First we see Shirley Ross, Harry Barris, then the King's Men.
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