Stevie Ray Vaughn
Santana
Buddy Guy
Miles Davis
Sting
Django Reinhart
Stray Cats
Dick Dale
The Ventures
The Headhunters
T-Bone Walker
Muddy Waters
Lightnin Hopkins
Charlie Christian
John Lee Hooker
Louis Armstrong
Fats Waller
Albert King
Charlie Parker
Count Basie
B.B King
Ry Cooder
Robert Johnson
Leadbelly
Lonnie Johnson
Eddie Lang
Magic Sam
Duke Robbillard
Duke Ellington
Herb Ellis
Freddie King
Little Walter
Clifford Brown
Dick Dale
Charlie Patton
Otis Rush
Sounds Like
Stevie Ray meets Santana having watched "Pulp Fiction"
BIOGRAPHY – THE BLACKTAILS
"Stevie Ray Vaughan meets Santana, watching Pulp Fiction..." (AngelBear Records).
With musical influences drawn from American Roots Music to West Coast Swing, Gypsy Jazz, Latin, Surf Rock & Electric Blues, The BlackTails have been inspiring audiences with their high energy live show since their 2004 launch in NYC. Playing to sold out audiences at the world famous Iridium in NYC to rocking music festival stages across the country, The BlackTails have drawn a diverse following around the world from the U.S. to Europe, South America and Asia.
The soundtrack vibe of their first release, "Spy Lounge", drew The BlackTails into the film and commercial world with scotch whiskey company Dewars licensing the track "Off the Rack" and promoting the group as a featured band in their 2006-2007 national advertising campaign. Expanding on that vibe in their live show, The BlackTails reinvent classic Film Noir / T.V music themes from Henri Mancini’s "Peter Gunn" to Schifrin’s "Mission Impossible" with an updated twist and emphasis on improvisation.
On their latest recording, "Inside Man" (working title), The BlackTails have created a seamless fusion of covers and original material you might expect to hear over the credits of your favorite film. "Inside Man" marries standards like Duke Ellington's "Caravan" with vocal harmonies ala Jane's Addiction and Alice in Chains as well as paying tribute to Santana, Miles Davis and Dick Dale with original tunes, "Santa Anna", "Lou's Misery", and "Limes 'n' Cherries". If you're looking for something you know well enough to love but is just off-center enough to keep you listening for each next note, keep your eye out for The BlackTails newest invention, "Inside Man" (working title), scheduled for release in early 2010.
The international flavor of The BlackTails sound is drawn form the diverse background of it's source. Hailing from Argentina, Switzerland, the U.S. and the U.K., this group of players brings to the stage and studio over a decade of performing experience in all corners of the globe. They have shared the stage with blues giants like Muddy Waters and Clarence Gatemouth Brown as well as national acts Little Feat, The Spin Doctors, Blues Travellers, and more.
When not touring, recording or writing new material, members of The BlackTails write, arrange and produce music for film , television, dance, and Off-Broadway productions. Their work has appeared on dozens of nationally released recordings, as well as in numerous commercials and television programs in the US and UK for well known brands like Fuse Network and Virgin Media.
THE PLAYERS
David Blacker (Lead Guitar, Vox): David Blacker is founder of Blackermusic Productions and his guitar playing and composition havd been featured on multiple original albums, television shows and commercials. His playing and approach to music is deeply influenced by different styles of American Roots of music, and the blues in particular. He is mostly self-taught, having learned by ear, and following the roots of popular music backward to greats like Howling Wolf, Muddy Waters, Django Reinhardt, Charlie Parker and T-Bone Walker. He has studied jazz theory and improvisation with one of Ornette Coleman's "Prime Time" guitarists, Chris Rosenberg. David is currently a featured musician and instructor on Truefire.com where he has sold hundreds of downloads featuring original music and guitar instruction.
William Catanzaro (Percussion, Vox, Keys): William is an eclectic composer and multi-instrumentalist born in Buenos Aires and based in New York since 1989. He has several recordings as band leader on major labels with diverse musical groups and three independent editions of his theater and dance works. Mr. Catanzaro has composed musical scores for many world renowned choreographers, Off Broadway productions, and multimedia productions. His work has been presented nationally and internationally from NY to Tokyo, Berlin, Dublin, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, etc. He has received recognition and funding from the NEA, The Samuel S. Feld Fund, New York State Council on The Arts, Harkness Foundation, NYU Humanities Council, NYU Service/ Learning Fund.
His most recent CDs “Percussion Works”, “Percussion for the Dance Technique of Lester Horton Volume I and II” and the afro jazz album with Victor Y. See Yuen titled “Evolution Suites” praised by jazz Masters Ron Carter and Sonny Rollins have been received with great acclaim and are available through www.cdbaby.com/catanzaro.
Mr Catanzaro is thrilled to be part of The Blacktrails, a band where musical skills, sense of humor and raw energy are keen.To that a toast !!
Peter Farrell (Keys, Guitar, Sax, Vox): Farrell brings an international sensibility to his music having been born in Puerto-Rico, raised in Tokyo (11 years) and schooled at traditional boarding schools in the UK. As a multi-instrumentalist he has toured and recorded all over the world with his first recording session at the age of 6 in Tokyo’s famous NHK studios. In the mid 1980’s he returned to the US and quickly became a member of the renowned Mercer County Symphonic Orchestra and the Youth of America, which toured extensively throughout Europe. In the 90’s one of Peter’s bands “Wooster Sang” became finalists to Music Magazine’s “Best Unsigned Band” contest sponsored by Atlantic Records. Peter’s work has been featured in commercials, film, TV and on over a dozen original releases, as well as, on over 30 nationally produced records as a guest artist. His record of jazz standards “Angel Ayes” was also picked up by SONY music for distribution in 2005. Peter graduated from Hobart & William Smith (Geneva NY) and spent 4 years driving 600 miles roundtrip every weekend to perform at clubs in NYC.
Derek Landel (Drums, Percussion): Hailing from the great state of NJ, Derek graduated from Syracuse University where he founded the band “Professor Spoon” which won the 1993 SAMMY Award for Best College Band. This landed him on an East Coast tour in 1994. At Berklee Derek performed with many notable up and comers including the John Dougherty Trio which went on to play with George Benson. His work has also been featured in Off Broadway musicals, TV Shows (“The Dave Tutera Party Planner”) as well as on the cruise ship “The Spirit of Boston” where he performed with keyboardist Alex Lacamoir (musical director of Broadway’s ‘Wicked”). He is a passionate board gamer and can be found every year at the World Board Gaming Championships in Lancaster PA!
Fredi Meli (Bass Guitar): Swiss national Fredi Meli spent many of his formative years, writing and touring throughout Europe before he came to the US to study at Berklee College where he built his American roots performing with notables such as Lionel Loueke (Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter), Akiko Grace (Ron Carter) and others. Over the years his work has been featured on TV, in Off Off Broadway productions and he is a regular at top session gigs in NYC.
Michael Hashim: Curriculum Vitae
Although he is from Geneva, NY, Michael Hashim’s career began in
Boston. There, at age 17, he played with his own group and was invited
to tour Poland but “couldn’t come up with the airfare”. He worked in
Providence, RI, for a year with guitarist Chris Flory before joining
the Widespread Depression Jazz Orchestra, with whom he would
subsequently recorded six albums, tour Europe and North America several
times, and garner glowing reviews in publications ranging from “People”
and “Newsweek” to “Downbeat” and “Le Jazz Hot”. Upon moving to
Manhattan in 1979 he commenced studies with Albert Regni and Phil Woods
and established a close relationship with Jimmy Rowles who served as
mentor and guide to the young saxophonist. Mr. Rowles also played on
Michael’s first recording as a leader, “Peacocks” on Stash Records.
During those heady years Michael found himself sharing bandstands with
Cab Calloway, Doc Cheatham, Muddy Waters, Nancy Wilson, Dizzy
Gillespie, Jo Jones, Sonny Greer, Roy Eldridge, Skitch Henderson and
the NY Pops, Ruby Braff, Madeline Kahn, Bob Wilber, Joe Williams,
Panama Francis, Gatemouth Brown, Sammy Price, The Duke Ellington Band
and his other mentor, Benny Carter.
Toward the end of 1989 Michael was awarded a prestigious National
Endowment for the Arts Grant which enabled him to record “Lotus
Blossom: A Billy Strayhorn Project” which earned the highest rating in
the Penguin guide to jazz on CD. This was followed by a host of
exciting and unusual recordings including “A Blue Streak”, “Guys and
Dolls” (both with Mike LeDonne and Kenny Washington), “Transatlantic
Airs” (with an all-star British band including Dave Newton and Tina
May), and “Keep a Song in Your Soul: Music of Fats Waller”, with
Claudio Roditi and Richard Wyands. 1999 saw the release of
“Multi-colored Blue” on HEP Jazz, which was nominated for British Jazz
Album of the Year. Most recently HEP released his Kurt Weill project,
“Green-Up Time” featuring the Axis String Quartet, plus banjo,
accordion, and other wacky surprises.
Along with recording came a lot more touring including Western
Europe and Great Britain, where he appeared on the cover of “Jazz
Journal International” and of course all over the U.S.A., Canada, and
the Caribbean. Going a bit further afield, he was the first jazz
musician to tour the People’s Republic of China, a historic event noted
at length in “The Congressional Record” for 1992. The mission was
sponsored by the U.S. Information Service and led by the pianist Judy
Carmichael, a longtime associate of Mr. Hashim’s with whom he has
recorded two CD’s and made many tours. The duo maintain a sporadic
residency at Manhattan’s Knickerbocker Jazz Bistro.
Michael Hashim’s recording activity also extends to film and
television, including original music for the PBS American Playhouse
production of Clifford Odet’s “Rocket to the Moon”, and solo saxophone
heard throughout the film “I’m Not Rappaport” starring Walter Matthau.
He was seen and heard on stage in the long-running Broadway musical
“Song of Singapore” and Pulitzer Prize-winner Art Spiegleman’s “Drawn
to Death: A Three-Panel Opera”. Choreographer/Theorist Ann Cooper
Albright commissioned him for a full-length piece called “Looking for
Angels” which was performed at Oberlin College in Ohio.
Festivals world-wide have called upon Michael’s talents regularly
including the Festival de Jazz de Montreal, The North Sea in Holland,
Montreux and Bern in Switzerland, Guinness Fest in Ireland, New Orleans
Jazz and Heritage, Molde (Norway), Pori (Finland),Pistoia (Italy),
Juan-les-Pins (France), Saratoga, Wolftrap, Boston Globe, Floating
JazzFest on the QE2, Newport and JVC fests and Texaco and Knitting
Factory fests in NYC. and the Edinburgh Festival in Scotland.
Recent activities also include the formation of the “Billy
Strayhorn Orchestra,” a fifteen-piece band devoted to his music,
founded and directed by Michael Hashim, which debuted in NY for the
Duke Ellington Society and has appeared several times at Lincoln
Center. The Brooklyn Academy of Music recently hosted the premier of
Michael’s original piece ”Among the Infinite Forms” which blends weird
texts with weird music.
The group performs at festivals, clubs and private engagements throughout the country and is represented by Ligeti Artists LLC. For more information, please visit myspace.com/theblacktails Purchase CD: please visit theblacktails.com
CONTACT INFORMATION: info@theshowstore.com or tel 917-216-5559
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