Bruce Katz Band to Play at Turning Point on Saturday, Sept. 28

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(Piermont, NY) โ€“ Bruce Katz, renowned Hammond B-3 organist/keyboardist and 2019 Blues Music Awards โ€œBest Acoustic Albumโ€ winner, and his Bruce Katz Band, are on their Fall 2019, Tour, performing locally at Turning Point Cafe, 468 Piermont Ave., Saturday, September 28. Showtime: 8:30pm. tickets are $20. Info: (845) 359-1089 or visit https://turningpointcafe.com.

The Bruce Katz Band presently features guitarist Aaron Lieberman from the popular jam band God Street Wine, and Katzโ€™s longtime drummer, Ray Hangen (Sean Costello Band).

Katz โ€“ whose stellar career includes stints with, among others, Gregg Allman (2007-2013 with the Gregg Allman Band), The Allman Bros., Ronnie Earl, and John Hammond โ€“ just added guitarist/vocalist Aaron Lieberman (founder of pioneering Jam Band God Street Wine) to the Bruce Katz Band. Bruce was recently honored with his fifth nomination for the 2019 BMA (Blues Music Awards), the equivalent of the Blues Grammys: โ€œInstrumentalist โ€“ Pinetop Perkins Piano Player;โ€ which are voted on in May.

Bruceโ€™s 2018 album โ€œGet Your Groove!โ€ (American Showplace Music) and โ€œJourneys To The Heart of the Bluesโ€ (Alligator), his 2018 collaboration with famed blues guitarist Joe Louis Walker and harpist Giles Robson, both charted in the Top 20 Albums on the respected year-end Living Blues International Radio Chart. Journeysโ€ฆ also netted Katz two additional 2019 BMA nominations, โ€œAlbum of the Yearโ€ and โ€œAcoustic Album of the Year,โ€ winning the later category.

Elmore Magazine writes, โ€œOn the traditional โ€œHesitation Blues,โ€ Katzโ€™s soulful organ riffs are reminiscent of Jimmy Smithโ€™s classic Blue Note sides. The Bruce Katz Band clearly loves making music togetherโ€”their creativity and inspiration make Get Your Groove! a joyous listen.โ€ โ€œFreight Train,โ€™ a song on Get Your Groove!, was written by Katz in memory of late Allman Brothers drummer and close friend Butch Trucks, whom Bruce played with in Butch Trucks & The Freight Train until Truckโ€™s passing in 2017.

โ€œSolo Rideโ€ (released August 2019) is Bruceโ€™s new CD on American Showplace Music, and his tenth album to date. The album was produced by Katz and label owner Ben Elliott, and co-produced by Bruceโ€™s manager and agent, Legare Robertson. Solo Ride marks Katzโ€™s only solo release after thirty years of composing, touring and playing. It captures the emotion and intensity of his music, and contains all instrumentals from start to finish, drawing from his vast background of stylings from jazz to blues to classical, gospel and country. โ€œIโ€™m tellinโ€™ ya, heโ€™s downhome and uptown all at once, and thatโ€™s a winning combination.โ€ โ€“ Ted Drozdowski, Music Critic. White on tour, Katz will be performing several songs from Solo Ride between band sets.

For the first time in his career, he has recorded a solo piano album and the results are stunning and unmistakably original. Bruceโ€™s virtuoso and original playing draws the listener into his musical world where many of the artificial boundaries created in the โ€˜music businessโ€™ fall away and leave the listener with a new appreciation for what Bruce calls โ€œimprovisational American Roots and Blues musicโ€.

โ€œOn Solo Ride, Bruce Katz becomes the Picasso of the Pianoโ€ โ€“ Nashville Blues & Roots Alliance

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