Barely Blue

Track Listings

1. Blue Bash

2. Midnight Blue

3. All Night Long

4. Song For My Father

5. New York State of Mind

6. And I Love Her

7. Movin' Out

8. Organ Grinder's Swing

9. Fever

Editorial Reviews
About the Artist
Multi-instrumentalist Leonard Shaw doesn?t have a musical identity crisis even if his music spans the genres from blues to R & B to jazz to funk to rock! Shaw, who began his career in Winnipeg with the seminal rock/funk horn based Mojo and the Nighthawks in the late 60's, then moved on to Junior Barnes and the Cadillacs, before heading to Grant MacEwan Music College in Edmonton , then Toronto where he toured with bands like Captain Cosmos, Panama, Pink Ships, Backstreet, and singers like Ian Thomas, Ian Hunter, Terry Crawford and the late Dianne Heatherington. He moved to back to Winnipeg in 1991, plying his keyboard-saxophone-vocalizing talents all over the U.S. for ten years with Jim Kale and Garry Peterson in the touring version of The Guess Who. Shaw?s CD ?Living Room? displays the wide range of styles from jazz to blues and pop that he is known for. He works regularly around Winnipeg with various ensembles, and the broadcast recording for CBC ?Barely Blue? featuring the Hammond B 3 organ; and it is currently being aired on ?Arts Encounters? and ?After Hours?. Leonard is a graduate of the Grant McEwan Performing Arts Music program.

Product Description
That funky B-3 sound. It doesn?t go away. It?s stronger than ever ? witness the continuation of the Jimmy Smith, Lonnie Smith, Jimmy McGriff blues/funk/shuffles in the stylings of today?s John Medeski, Larry Goldings and other pianists who switch to this ?monster? for some groove.

Add Winnipeg?s Leonard Shaw to the list. At home at keyboards of all sorts, Shaw, who is equally comfortable strapping on a tenor saxophone, has put together a jazzy, bluesy group called the Blue Line Express, and his rumbling B-3 leads some of Winnipeg?s very best down that path to groove.

And it?s a special group, because it brings to the fore, once again, the dynamic duo that Winnipeg jazz fans instantly recognize: Reg and Ronnie. Indeed, Reg Kelln and Ron Halldorson need little introduction. They came to prominence in the ?60s backing the burgeoning playing of the brilliant Lenny Breau, Reg on drums and Ron on bass.

With Blue Line, Halldorson is playing guitar, at which he is equally talented. Some of those Breau sessions were well absorbed. Kelln is as swinging as ever. Then add the present generation?s outstanding bassist Gilles Fournier who?s played with just anybody to visit Winnipeg, and you have not a supporting cast, but a truly hot band that swings, gets downright blue and cooks, with Leonard Shaw as the head chef.

Barely Blue,Leonard Shaw

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