Band website: www.ptbband.com
Powers That Be are an accomplished band of Bay Area musicians who have all played in various projects on the west coast. Their eclectic funk/rock sound infuses dynamic grooves with deep soul/R&B/jazz influences, with some other tasty Latin, Ska, and World beats rounding out the mix. Improvising is a tangible component of what they share with the audience and they excel at stretching out the funky jams and keeping the crowd moving. With strong, vocally charged, original songs and tight arrangements (and a smattering of rarely heard but exceptional cover tunes) they embrace and transcend the "jam band" label with a host of incredible tunes that tend to shake a roomful of booty.
In 2003, longtime friends and "coolaborators", tenor saxophonist/vocalist Dean Claeys (Sol Americano, Edgar, the Underlings) and bassist Dave Gantenbein (Hand of Kindness, Swaybone, Vessel) were in between projects and motivated to put together a collection of musical compadres and recruited musicians to revive a promising sound that had gone underground (rotting in an unmarked grave due to some lame band politics)... and to re-funk up the Bay to its so richly deserved potential. They recruited one of the North Bay's best unkept secrets... the powerful and versatile voice of Judy Padilla to front the group and their infectious sound. More recently (thanks to the magical adventure that is Craigslist), they have been working with accomplished sax player Colin Gleason, drummer extraordinaire David Strong, and sensational keyboardist Patrick Petzel. The result of this joining of forces is Powers That Be, and they be ripe to lay down some of fine tunes, phat jams, and tasty grooves to a venue near you.
PTB is:
Judy Padilla - vocals
Dave Gantenbein - bass
Chris Meeks - guitar
Patrick Petzel - keyboards
David Strong - drums
Colin Gleason - sax
Alex Scammon - sax
Jeff Prinz - sax
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