This Monday night July 5th, marks the return of Santa Fe & The Fat City Horns to The Palms Hotel and Casino here in Las Vegas.  The show begins at 10:30 PM.  There is now a cover charge of $7.00, but the money goes directly to the band.  Get out and support one of baddest bands in the west.

For more info on Santa Fe go to www.santafeband.com

This past Saturday Night found me in the East Bay Area town of Pleasanton catching the 8PM Tower Of Power concert at the Alameda County Fair. Earlier my wife and I poked our heads in at the 6PM show to find that it was packed, standing room only. We made a decision at 6:30 to get in line for the 8PM show. We were joined by some friends of ours. Seating for the 8PM show began around 7:30, so we all made our way to the fifth row, right in front of where the Tower’s horn sections is set to play.

Not long after sitting down (bench seating), a group of people that included two young girls, and a young man 15-18 years old, sat next to my wife. OK seems un-related, but this will have a tie in shortly. The Tower show was excellent and the band was firing on all cylanders. Being that this is Tower’s home turf, there were lots of band member friends, and family in the stands, the energy was high. Its now the end of the show and Tower is wrapping it up with their the classic “What Is Hip?”, before the song begins, Larry Braggs makes mentions that Tower has a “farm team” and they bring out the young man that was sitting next to my wife, with trumpet in hand. Yes, I looked over did a double take, and realized that he was now on stage.

The young man turns out to be Josh Shpak a student of Mic Gillette’s. Not only did Josh sit in for “What Is Hip?’, but he played with the band for the encore ‘You’re Still A Young Man”. While Josh was on stage I happened to look over at the two girls that were originally sitting with Josh, they were now standing on the bench, and the look of joy and pride on there faces was priceless. Doing some research, I have found out that Josh is a 17 year old Junior at Northgate High School in Walnut Creek. He has also studied in the past with the renowned “Clark Terry”. In fact, Mic Gillette of Tower Of Power sent me an email saying that “Josh is spending this week with trumpet god, Clark Terry at his home in Arkansas”.

Lets all keep an eye on Josh, his future looks very bright.

Below is a video of Josh sitting in with Tower.

10.Drank a gallon of local Kool Aid, price of TP went up to one million pesos per roll.

9. Mexican Immigration arrested your uncle because he looks like Jan Brewer.

8. Your SUV was perfectly described in a popular Narco Corrido.

7. Got your nose caught in an accordion during a drunken sing along.

6. Your Lengua (Tongue) sandwich licked you back.

5. They kidnapped your Mother in Law, paid you to take her back.

4. Tried to speak Spanish now engaged to the Mayors transgender cousin.

3. In celebration of the World Cup, Someone painted your face with ink, now your passport is useless.

2. Went para sailing on the beach and got a Pelican stuck in your shorts.

1. Tijuana Dentist made your front false teeth look like Chicklets.

 
 
 
 
For Immediate Release
 
        HERMAN MATTHEWS JOINS GREG ADAMS AND EAST BAY SOUL
 
HERMAN MATTHEWS BEGAN PLAYING DRUMS AT THE AGE OF SEVEN AND HAS BEEN THE BACKBONE OF WORLD-CLASS POP, ROCK, JAZZ, SOUL, R&B AND FUNK BANDS FOR NEARLY THIRTY YEARS.
 
June 25, 2010- Los Angeles, CA- East Bay Soul welcomes its newest member, the dynamic Herman Matthews. His musical contributions will undoubtedly enrich the creativity toward the measure of excellence that East Bay Soul enjoys.
 
Greg Adams says, “The first time I played with Herman was at the Tower of Power 40th reunion show at The Fillmore. After the first song, I knew I wanted to work with him one day. Exquisite grooves!”
 
Matthews credits for performances and recordings come from a long list that include Kenny Loggins, Richard Marx, Tower Of Power, David Foster, Michael McDonald, Phillip Bailey, Sheryl Crow, “Baby Face” Edmonds, Herbie Hancock, Steven Stills, Luther Vandross, Celine Dion, Michael Bolton, Patty Austin, Chaka Chan, Carol King, Ronnie Millsap, Bill Champlain, Maxi Priest, and Diane Reeves. Herman has also played for President  Bill Clinton on three occasions as well as Nelson Mandela.
 
Herman will also join Greg Adams in the mix of his other touring configurations with the first shows starting July 2010
 
07/23/10- Seal Beach, CA Spaghettini Jazz Club
Greg Adams Band with East Bay Soul vocalist Darryl Walker 8PM
 
07/24/10- Laguna Beach, CA Festival Of The Arts
Greg Adams Band with East Bay Soul vocalist Darryl Walker 1PM
 
08/05/10- Lake Arrowhead, CA Jazz in Blue Jay; Greg Adams Band 7PM
 
09/02/10- Boston MA Scullers Jazz Club- East Bay Soul 8PM
 
09/18/10- Seal Beach CA Spaghetttini Jazz Club-East Bay Soul 8PM
 
10/08/10- Avalon, CA Catalina Island JazzTrax Festival-East ay Soul 9PM
 
To learn more about East Bay Soul and find tour dates, please visit www.eastbaysoul.com
 
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     For more information please contact Andrea Adams at ALM Management
               Phone: 818.609.9528   E- mail: andrea@almamangement.com
 

From Eric Bolvin:

I am happy to announce the release of “No Boundaries” on Innervision Records. This is my first label release and I am very excited about it. To hear samples and see the cool CD art- http://www.bolvinmusic.com/ebjazz-cd5.html

Please join us on June 26 as we perform LIVE at Senzala in Sunnyvale (CA.).

Joining me will be:

Mike Renwick- guitar & vocals
David Perper- drums
Chris Durbin- keys
Ken Okada- bass

HornDrivenRadio.com has been running Eric’s first release from the new CD “Late Night Call”,  we will be adding more songs this next coming week.