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DUKE
ROBILLARD (USA)
Saturday,
July 5th, 21.30
Duke
Robillard - guitar, vocals
Doug James - saxophone
Jesse Williams - bass
Mark Teixeira - drums
Matt McCabe - piano
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Inspired
by blues legends like T-Bone Walker, Charlie Patton and Big Joe Turner,
Duke's guitar work has seamlessly spanned the worlds of jazz, blues, and
swing since he founded the renowned big band, Roomful of Blues, in 1967.
Since 1980, Duke has recorded over a dozen acclaimed solo albums and toured
the world both with his own band and also as Jimmie Vaughan's replacement
in The Fabulous Thunderbirds. In addition to his own recordings, Duke
has played on and/or produced albums by Bob Dylan (1997's Grammy-winning
Time Out of Mind), Ruth Brown, Johnny Adams, Kim Wilson, Jay McShann,
Pinetop Perkins, John Hammond, Jimmy Witherspoon, Snooky Pryor and many
more. Called "one of the great players" by the legendary B.B.
King, Duke's upbeat live performance, accented by a swinging horn section,
is a tasteful display of a wide variety of blues styles.
Of
all the guitarists slinging blues licks these days, Duke Robillard is
perhaps the most comfortable at stepping over the line into the world
of jazz. In his hands the basic 12-bar format yields to advanced chord
substitutions without a hint of conflict. Robillard is considered one
of the world's pre-eminent practitioners of jump-blues and swing guitar
playing, and an expert in the style of T-Bone Walker (not to mention Freddie
King), so his fluency outside the I-IV-V box is perfectly understandable.
Robillard is a native of Westerly, Rhode Island, and in 1967 he founded
Roomful of Blues, a horn-based band that performs to this day and is a
perennial favorite of jazz-blues fans everywhere. Duke left Roomful in
1979 to play lead guitar for rockabilly singer Robert Gordon, then joined
the Legendary Blues Band, a group made up of former Muddy Waters sidemen.
He finally kicked off a solo career in 1981, forming the Duke Robillard
Band (later renamed Duke Robillard & the Pleasure Kings), recording
that group's debut in 1984. Robillard has been signed to numerous labels
and worked a multitude of artists. He even did a stint as Jimmie Vaughan's
replacement in the Fabulous Thunderbirds in the early '90s. And right
now Duke Robillard is on a roll. He recently sat down with Guitar.com
to discuss his new release, Explorer; several other albums he's either
produced or released under his own name in the past 15 months; and some
of his favorite guitar licks, many of which he demonstrates in Guitar.com's
exclusive video guitar lessons.
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