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Chicago
and Texas Blues
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- Michel
Carras, keyboards
- Urs
Baumer, bass
- Eric
Kuntz, drums
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- Isabelle
Berthaud, background vcls.
- Eliot,
background vcls
- Davyd
Johnson, sax
- Lennox
Bisette, perc.
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- Zach
Prather
torna quest’anno dopo il grande successo personale
riscosso nell'edizione 2002.
Come vuole la tradizione del Blues to Bop, quando un
artista ritorna offre qualcosa di nuovo di sé stesso.
Un bluesman dai molti talenti come Zach (oggi è
chitarrista-cantante, ma ha suonato la batteria con
Screamin’ Jay Hawkins e Luther Allison!) non ha difficoltà
a ideare nuovi progetti.
Ha quindi aggiunto quattro ospiti al suo gruppo Blues
Express in modo da proporre la musica di Freddie King.
Mentre tutti conoscono “Hideaway” e
“Same Old Blues”, Zach intende presentare la
profondità dell’opera di questo grande texano, che viene
a tutt'oggi ingiustamente negletto.
Non si tratta, ovviamente, di una "cieca"
fedeltà verso gli originali, ma di vere e proprie
interpretazioni, che metteranno in luce i talenti di Zach
Prather per la seconda volta qui a Lugano.
Inoltre, imperdibile sarà la serata d’apertura a
Morcote, quando Zach e Michel Carras suoneranno insieme con
la favolosa Sonia.
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- Zach
Prather was born in Chicago where he grew up listening to
many of the artists who brought the Blues to Europe during
the sixties. After
military service he formed his own band and, at the time,
was playing in a style inspired by the Rolling Stones and
other bands that made up the “British Invasion”. He moved to Los Angeles in 1971 where he met guitarist Cash
McCall who became an important influence on his music for
the next fifteen years.
He also met the artists who he was to play with in
the following years including Etta James, Screamin’ Jay
Hawkins, Minnie Ripperton and Willie Dixon.
Today, Zach considers Willie Dixon the biggest
influence on his life and on his music.
After Dixon’s death, Zach toured regularly with
Screamin’ Jay Hawkins and during one of the twice yearly
tours he met Luther Allison in Paris and moved there,
staying in Allison’s group for almost four years.
For this year’s Blues to Bop Zach has added four
musicians to his Blues Express in a tribute to the great
Freddie King. The
Texas legend was chosen because Zach is convinced that only
part of his music is known to blues fans so his
interpretations will present the lesser known qualities of a
giant.
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