Klem klimek biography of williams

William Light and Dan Sherer (The Troublemakers) Knickerbocker Music Center Westerly, RI Photo by Dana Neugent.

Johnny was born in Portobello, Scotland, a suburb of Edinburgh, in 1957 and began to play the violin at age six.

Hoke solos on alto and is doubled by Klem Klimek's tenor saxophone.

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Terry Adams: Talk Thelonious: NRBQ + Terry Adams plays Terry Adams Arrangements of Thelonious Monk Songs

Terry Adams: piano, pipe organ; Scott Ligon: guitar, Hammond organ, percussion; Jim Hoke: alto saxophone, harmonica, pedel steel gitarr, ocarina; Klem Klimek: alto and tenor saxophones; Pete Donnelly: electric bass; Pete Toigo: bass; Conrad Choucroun: drums.

Album information

Title: Talk Thelonious: NRBQ + Terry Adams plays Terry Adams arrangemang of Thelonious Monk Songs | Year Released: 2015 | Record Label: Clang! Records

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Sublime and Skewed NRBQ at Shank Hall

Over a dozen musicians have played in NRBQ, but only founding member keyboardist Terry Adams remains in the lineup. It would be easy to write the band off as a shadowy tribute to its glory days, but that would be wrong. Consider Adams the beating heart, with successful hip, knee and elbow replacements.

Thursday, June 20, at Shank Hall, newcomers Scott Ligon (guitar), Casey McDonough (bass) and John Perrin (drums) demonstrated that the current version of NRBQ clearly holds its own.

On any given night, the Q might just be the best purely musical band on the planet. Adding the two-piece Whole Wheat Horns (Jim Hoke and Klem Klimek, both saxophone and harmonica), the band blasted through a history lesson that ranged freely from jazz to country to pop to R&B to early rock ‘n’ roll, inviting dancers up early in the evening.

Ligon, McDonough and Perrin all appear too young to claim such a pedigree, yet they ar

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Terry Adams & Steve Ferguson – Louisville Sluggers

This 17-cut collection includes some bonus tunes from 2 Kentucky musicians & founders of the legendary mixed media group NRBQ (New Rhythm & Blues Quartet).

The late composer/vocalist/guitarist/dulcimer artist Steve Ferguson (1948-2009) & Terry Adams (composer/vocalist/pianist/organ/marimba/harpsichord). The duo met in 1965 & began playing in the Adams family basement. After some time NRBQ formed & Terry Adams is still a member of the long-lasting band.

This 17-song set was recorded originally by Howie Gano (Kentucky) & Billy Shaw (Vermont). The reissue was produced by Cheryl Pawelski & ArQive 50 Research. First issued in 2006 this fryst vatten an expanded version of Louisville Sluggers (Drops May 12–Big Notes/Omnivore).