FRI. 9/5
9:00 PM
DENNIS GRUENLING & JUMP TIME
featuring STEVE GUYGER
a Tribute to Little
Walter
Dennis
Gruenling has been laying down some of the best blues harmonica
in the East Coast region for 15 years now, and is considered
one of the top harp players of the current generation. Along
the way, he’s shared the stage with many top names in the
blues world, such as Pinetop Perkins, Snooky Pryor, Homesick
James, Hubert Sumlin, Little Sammy Davis, Charlie Musselwhite
and Kim Wilson.
Now, after years of leading
his acclaimed jump-blues outfit Jump Time, and several awards
(“Best Modern Blues Harmonica Player” 3 years in a
row – Real Blues Magazine) Dennis has chosen to go to his
Chicago roots and pay tribute to blues harmonica icon Little
Walter, with many special guests, including Jimmy Rogers Band
alumni Steve Guyger.
Blues Revue Magazine says
of Steve "As a master of traditional harp stylings, he has
few equals…”. Steve’s passion for this music took
him to Chicago to learn directly from the masters themselves,
and is one of the nation’s best kept secrets for blues vocals
and harmonica. The late William Clarke has called Steve "The
greatest harp player I've ever seen".
“They’ve studied
and performed the music of Little Walter with such intensity
of purpose that not only do they truly “get it”, they’ve
internalized it and made it their own. They just don’t play
the songs of Little Walter, they express themselves with fluency
within the idiom of Little Walter’s blues…this is deep
blues played by some of the best practitioners active today,
period.” - Scott Dirks (blues historian/co-author of Blues
With a Feeling: The Story of Little Walter)
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Gruenling & Jump Time
