Blue Bone Express
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Playing the Oakland Art Murmur tonight. Look for us on Telegraph, Stork Club at 10:30, Van KIeef later on.
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Oakland-based Blue Bone Express has held a unique place in the San Francisco Bay Area music scene since formed in 2004 by pianist/trumpeter Jara Queeto. Their music is a mix of jazz, blues, and R&B, inspired by the deep legacy of New Orleans music culture. Rags and stomps are played and sung effortlessly alongside blues jumps and more modern rock & TV theme covers, as well as a host of original compositions. Their signature sousaphone and rollicking piano sound keeps the party hopping with infectious 2nd line and shuffle rhythms of traditional New Orleans parades. Not a jazz band to sit and sip wine to, Blue Bone Express gets your bones up on the floor and keeps the vibe at an ecstatic high.
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Formed in 2004 through Jara Queeto's leadership, Oakland-based Blue Bone Express has been exposing the San Francisco Bay Area to a type of jazz rarely heard beyond the Mississippi Delta. It is a jazz that is music to party by: the traditional sounds of Mardi Gras, New Orleans funerals, and barrelhouse brothels.
Blue Bone Express strives to reveal the spark that created jazz in its beginnings, rooted in the music of New Orleans, by way of Africa, Europe, the Caribbean, and the Louisiana swamplands. Whether parading in the street, or setting the mood for burlesque performers, the configuration of tuba, brass, drums, and piano excites onlookers to dance with wild abandon.
Through a healthy mix of originals and gems of both distant and recent past, Blue Bone Express proves to jumpstart any party.
If Blue Bone Express is playing, then the party has most certainly begun!
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