EVERY SATURDAY NIGHT written br RAY CHARLES is incredible!
The musicians? Barry Campbell on bass. He plays full time with Al Green. George Laks on keys. George is a permanent member of the Lenny Kravitz band. George Naha on guitar-an r&b genious. He's played with everyone including Aretha Franklin. Frank Duncan-drums & producer, Frank knows everything! Bill Sims Jr. on vocals. Bill is a blues man extraordinaire. Aside from singing he's a master guitar & keyboard player. Pat Cisarano-Vocals
You like the blues? I do. I NEED A KISS is one of the 1st songs that I wrote. How incredibly lucky I was to have such fine musicians record it with me.
An endearing goodbye to Mr. Tony Bennett. He was an incredible artist & a fine man.
At a NARAS (Grammy) awards show, Tony Bennett told a crowd of over 2000 industry professionals "Pat Cisarano is the greatest white blues singer on the planet." That made me feel pretty good!
And to a Post writer he said “Pat’s the real deal.”
Coming from the king, that's quite a compliment.
Brooklyn-Born, Pat has given her life to song, and to sharing that passion. Her Dad owned a well-loved neighborhood Bar & Grill, near Sheepshead Bay. The spot had a phenomenal jukebox, and the music of the era was to indelibly shape her life.
To quote the liner notes from one of her CD liner notes. "If the Biz were more about artistic sense than dollars-n-cents, Pat Cisarano would have been added to the list of regal first-namers:
Ella, Etta, Billie, Aretha, Bessie, Janis...PAT.
So decree her NYC fans and the serious catz who honed their blues-thang with Pat as she reined as Blues-Queen of the NYC Bleecker Street scene-in its everybody-say-HEY-day! When covering r&b classics, she could rip into each song's core so even the most familiar seem her own, and her originals sing out like anthems. Later on in her career she got hip to the earthliness of real roots reggae. You'll hear some of those songs on "ah."
She traveled to Europe to perform many times. In Argentina where she did a show in a beautiful museum.
Living in her native Brooklyn, NY Pat had access to some of the world's finest players.
She's recorded many of her own tunes. Her CD's are called called "ah," Ticia (true Love)"& Carried Away (blues,) Third Rail Screamin'-a compilation of NYC's blues artsts.
Just listen!
