**BIOGRAPHY**
Grammy award-winning Sugar Blue has been called the Jimi Hendrix or the Charlie Parker of the harmonica, both appropriate names for the revolutionary and eclectic blues harpist. He grew up listening to jazz - particularly Lester Young and Dexter Gordon - and soon fell in love with Muddy Waters and the blues greats.
Sugar Blue incorporates what he has learned into his visionary and singular style, technically dazzling yet wholly soulful. Along with his instrumental virtuosity, he’s got a rich, intense sensual voice with a whisper of huskiness which by itself would be something out of the ordinary
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**SUGAR BLUE &...***
Sugar Blue has performed live on tour, in movie appearances, on stage with Willie Dixon, Rolling Stones, Prince, Brownie Mc Ghee, Ray Charles, Fats Domino, Stan Getz, Frank Zappa & Buddy Guy.
**DISCOGRAPHY**
Code Blue (Beeble 2007) In your eyes (Alligator 1995) Blue blazes (Alligator 1994) From Paris to Chicago (EPM April 1993) Crossroads (Blue Silver 1980) Blues Explosion Grammy award 1985
And as a special guest on: Hidden Charms, Live, (Willie Dixon), Some Girls, Tattoo you, Emotional Rescue (Rolling Stones), Bootleg Series (Bob Dylan), World of Collision (Hiram Bullock), Rainy day (Brownie Mc Ghee), Bang that bell (Melvin Taylor), and many more...
**RECENT SHOWS on the CODE BLUE TOUR**
Jazz a Carthage (Tunisia)
Wien Spring Blues (Austria)
Burnley Blues Festival (UK)
... “none was more startling than Sugar Blue, who headlined the main stage on Saturday...his playing was at times more like a bop jazz musician than a blues blower, mixing influences from Charlie Parker to James Cotton as he skated with incredible speed and fluency across the upper register.”
-- (The Times)
The Blue Note, Poznan (Poland)
*Past shows of Sugar Blue & Band:
Chicago Blues Fest, Montreux Jazz festival, New Orleans Jazz Fest, Rapperswil Jazz&Blues, Lario Jazz, Bern Jazz Fest, New Orleans Jazz & Heritage,
**QUOTES**
” a legend in his own times” -
Willie Dixon
” a very strange and talented musician” -
Mick Jagger
“ He is harmonica’s James Joyce....Sugar blows down lightning his voice is straight ahead and authoritative...he plays from the heart with virtuosity.” -
Living Blues
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