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Musicians Featured on Crazy Blood
Rachelle Garniez - vocals, accordion, banjo, bells & whistles
Joe Ruddick - piano,
organ, wurlitzer, baritone sax
Stew Cutler - guitars, harmonica, lap steel
Catherine Popper - acoustic bass, tracks 2, 4, 5, 7, 8
Dassi Rosenkrantz-Cabo - electric bass
Barbara Merjan - drums & percussion
Pam Fleming - trumpet & flugelhorn
solos
Guido Gonzales - trumpet
Dan Levine - trombone
Stephan Smith - fiddle
Cid Scantlebury, Paul Clements, Yuko Ichioka - background chorus
Sylvester Schneider - yodels
Ronnie Johnson - kalimba
Walker Stevenson - bells & stuff
Halloween Boy Toy - vox & guitar on Raquel's Bells
Joe Ruddick - pianist, saxophonist, synthesist,
composer, cosmic noise-maker - has performed for decades throughout the
United States, Canada, and Europe. His compositions, arrangements, sound
design and/or instrumental virtuosity have been featured on Bravo, MTV,
Nickelodeon, and HBO, and film soundtracks --- Paul Mazursky's "Faithful,"
Albert Maysles' "Umbrellas," and Philip Haas' "The Music of Chance." He
has played and recorded with a multitude of ensembles, ranging from children's
music superstar Laurie Berkner, to Phillip Johnston's idiosyncratic exploratory
jazz projects, to William Parker's avant-garde Little Huey orchestra,
to the platinum-selling pop group DEEE-LITE. On an early solo LP - New
Music for Quadruple Octet - Mr. Ruddick performed his original compositions,
playing over twenty different overdubbed instruments and the kitchen sink.
Jazz Track noted his "percussive piano... silvery runs and triple-jumps...
shifting perspectives that brush past multiple styles in a restlessly
roving, seemingly freeform manner." George Kanzler wrote: "Invigoratingly
creative, Ruddick brings a swinging antic wit to the jazz tradition."
Down Beat magazine heralded his "brilliant keyboard playing." And Options
magazine proclaimed: "Some kind of genius, Joe Ruddick is a brilliant
instrumentalist making inspired music."
Listening to any genre of music, chances are you
have heard trumpeter Pam Fleming play. Pam toured as trumpet soloist,
during the Lilith Fair with Natalie Merchant....... and was also asked
nightly to go out on stage, and do guest spots with Sarah McLachlan, The
Indigo Girls, Queen Latifah, N'Dea Davenport, Victoria Williams, and others...
where she took off, and added an extra dimension to their music.
Pamela has delighted fans over the years, using her trumpet and musical
insight with Bonnie Raitt (VH1 Storytellers), Reggae Stars: Burning Spear,
Maxi Priest, Dennis Brown, and Beres Hammond, Arrow (wrote 'Hot Hot Hot'),
Bruce Springsteen, Robert Palmer, Buster Poindexter, The Mel Lewis Big
Band, Cab Calloway, Pucho & his Latin Soul Brothers (CD- Groovin'
High, and Mucho Pucho), Little Jimmy Scott (Sessions at 54th St. &
CD "Holding Back the Years"), Imani Coppola.........and the
list goes on.
Her own group, Fearless Dreamer is now in the studio finishing their 2nd
CD! - Available at CDBaby
and Amazon
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