Chris Bergson Band with Horns at Jazz Standard

The Chris Bergson Band brings their "gut-busting, horn-bedecked NY blues"(MOJO) to Jazz Standard on Wednesday, December 26th. With MOJO Magazine's #1 Blues Album of 2008, Fall Changes, and #2 Blues Album of 2011, Imitate the Sun, New York guitarist/singer Chris Bergson has established himself as "one of the most inventive songwriters in modern blues music." (Richard Skelly, All Music Guide). Chris Bergson has performed and/or shared the stage with Hubert Sumlin, Levon Helm, John Hammond, Little Sammy Davis, Etta James, Bettye LaVette, Annie Ross, Norah Jones, Al Foster, and Matt Wilson, to name just a few...

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The Chris Bergson Band brings their "gut-busting, horn-bedecked NY blues"(MOJO) to Jazz Standard on Wednesday, December 26th. With MOJO Magazine's #1 Blues Album of 2008, Fall Changes, and #2 Blues Album of 2011, Imitate the Sun, New York guitarist/singer Chris Bergson has established himself as "one of the most inventive songwriters in modern blues music." (Richard Skelly, All Music Guide). Chris Bergson has performed and/or shared the stage with Hubert Sumlin, Levon Helm, John Hammond, Little Sammy Davis, Etta James, Bettye LaVette, Annie Ross, Norah Jones, Al Foster, and Matt Wilson, to name just a few. MOJO's Tony Russell calls Bergson "a powerful spirit with flavours of Ray Charles and Tom Waits..." and writes of the band that "These guys could strip down the engine of a soulbluesmobile and put it back together blindfold."

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