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featuring:
Al Catasso=guitar,vocal
Al Catasso`s Black Jack
Italy new Top 5 guitarist & Winner of the Montreaux Newcomer Festival Award 2003
Spy Austin=bass/vocal
Spy Austin Band/ex.Boy George Band/Sam Kelly Blues Band,Tony Tilotta`s Dakotas. etc.
Sam Kelly=drums/vocals
Samy Kelly Blues Band/Gary Moore`s drummer (2008),Chacka Khan,etc........
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Spy Austin (UK)
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Spy Austin has been playing bass & singing reggae,,Soul, Funk and Blues for more than 20 years.
He has performed and toured with some of Jamaica's most prominent artists and groups such as
Gregory Issacs, Desmond Dekker, Earl 16,
I Roy, Mikey General, I Jah Man Levi as well as with British reggae artists such as Boy George,
Mad Professor, Drumhead, Progressive Sounds Crew and Benjamin Zephaniah.
Last but not least more than 100 gigs across Europe as the Singer + Bassist for ANDREA BRAIDO`s project “Braido Play`s Hendrix”
Spy love for the Blues bring him back to perform a Blues and a Jimi Hendrix Project “ Hendrix Revisited” scheduled programm across Europe in 2009-2010
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"Sam Kelly" Bio
Sam started his playing career in the early 70’s with Cymande - the very first band he played in. Although not well known in the UK, Cymande worked in the USA, successfully touring to promote 3 albums which were released on the Janus label, a subsidiary of Chess records (part of the 2nd album was recorded at Chess studios, Chicago) Cymande's music has retained a cult following over the years and even today the name is still well known by the new generation of successful garage, hip-hop and rap artists who have sampled several of the original tracks. Sam has recently been asked to join Gary Moore's Band and at this stage they have just finished recording the rhythm tracks for a new album, prior to starting a European tour in March 2008. Sam will still continue to work with Sam Kelly’s Station House, Primo Blues, Sam Kelly’s Blues Band, the Papa George Band, Cymande, The Soul Britannia All-Stars, Chuck Farley, Giles Hedley & the Aviators and Francesco Boldini (Italy). Over the years Sam has worked with Chaka Khan, Dr John, Ben E. King, Robert Plant, The Foundations, Gordon Haskell, Billy Ocean, Desmond Dekker, Eddie Floyd, Roger Chapman, Michelle Shocked and Stan Webb.… last but not least in 2008 on Tour as drummer for Gary Moore!!
to name but a few.
Sam's long career covers live gigs, festivals, drum workshops, theatre work and radio and TV sessions, both in the UK and overseas. Sam has been voted into Blues In Britain magazine Gallery of the Greats, as five-times winner of the 'UK Drummer of the Year' award.
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Al Catasso (I)
Al Catasso founded the Band with the precise intention to create a "POWER TRIO"
(guitar/bass + drums) that goes back to the sound energy and to creative power of the sixty`s and seventy`srock-blues bands, such Mountain, Rory Gallagher, Taste,
Led Zeppelin, BBA, and Allman Brothers Band.
The Black Jack renew the classic sound of these historical bands through the composition of unpublished
pieces,performed in a modern and innovative manner, not hiding the influensces of jazz,blues and modern rock artists, such as Govt`Mule, Tom Principato, Living Colours,
Muddy Waters,Miles Davis,Wes Montgomery,Mr. Big and Buddy Guy.
Some covers belong to the Black Jack`s repertory, which have been used re-performed to create whirling jams and medleys, reading over, in a personal manner,the history of the more classic and hard rock-blues.
Everything is under the supervision of the Band leader Al Catasso who can boast innumerable live experiences
such as the "Montreux Jazz Festival", "Pistoia Blues Festival" (Italy`s Blues Mecca),etc.
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