Jazz Tuesdays featuring Kazuki Takemura, Tim Blackmon, Luther S Allison, Jeff Shoup (9/11/18)
Jazz Tuesdays is a weekly event featuring great jazz musicians from all over the state of Michigan. Each week brings in a different guest artist and a new experience. Welcome back the school year with an evening featuring some of the finest performers from MSU's Jazz Studies program! Our bandleader for the evening is Kazuki Takemura, a talented bassist from Japan. Also on the bandstand we have the extraordinary Luther S Allison, piano, and Tim Blackmon, trumpet. Jazz Tuesdays host Jeff Shoup fills out the band on drums. Jazz Tuesdays is generously sponsored by Gregg Hill Publishing and INDe Drum Lab.
About Luther Allison
American blues guitarist and singer, born in Widener, Arkansas on 17 August 1937, died of lung cancer on 12 August 1997 in Madison, Wisconsin. Allison moved to Chicago in the early 1950s, making his first recordings for Delmark in 1967, with a full album in 1969. In the 1970s, he was one of few blues artists to record for Motown. When moving to Europe in the 1980s, he adopted a more rock-oriented style. He was posthumously inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 1998. Father of [a731724].
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