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Music for April 4, 2009 FPJJ: |
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The March 14th FPJJ is very fortunate to be able to feature live music by Ricky Nye Inc!
RICKY NYE INC. (formerly known as "The Swingin' Mudbugs")
features Ricky Nye (piano & voice) along with Brian Aylor (drums), Steve Perakis (upright bass), and Eric Neuhausser (tenor
sax), playing elegant blues & ballads (a la Charles Brown and Mose Allison), New Orleans stylings and traditional boogie
woogie. The group has experienced great success with the release of their discs "Quick 'N' Dirty" (2003)
and "Piano is Fun!" (1998, with Don Aren- bass & Brian Baverman- drums). Their many concert performances included
2003 & 2006's Tall Stacks Music, Arts & Heritage Festival, held in Cincinnati. This aggregation is adept at either
simmering or creating a rollickin' good time!
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RICKY NYE (Rick Neiheisel) was
born in Cincinnati in 1956, and was bitten by the music bug at the age of five. Upon his return to the area in 1979, his musical
journeys on piano, organ & accordion have taken him through jazz, funk, rock & roll (years 1979-1985 with legendary
cult faves The Raisins), country, zydeco, New Orleans styles, boogie woogie & blues (three years with the late Big Ed
Thompson)- knowledge which has landed him on countless recording sessions and as accompanist to renown blues artists such
as James Harman, Junior Watson, Francine Reed and Darrell Nulisch. Besides leading two groups, RICKY NYE & THE RED HOTS
(winners of BEST BLUES BAND in the Cincinnati Enquirer's 2001 CAMMY awards) and his trio THE SWINGIN' MUDBUGS (the
band behind Ricky's 1998 release "Piano Is Fun!" and 2003's "Quick 'N' Dirty"), Ricky
performs in solo settings (winning BEST SOLO ACT in the 2001 & 2002 CAMMY Awards, along with BEST BLUES/R&B
INSTRUMENTALIST in 2002 CAMMYS, and BEST BLUES/R&B ARTIST in the 2000, 2001, 2004 & 2005 CEA Awards held by CityBeat
Magazine), in duet settings with upright bass or drums, and with vocalists extraordinaire Bekah Williams & Dottie Warner.
Since 1996, Ricky has been a regular performer on the Arches Boogie Stage at the Queen City Blues Fest, which put him in association
and friendships with some of the finest blues and boogie pianists from around the world, such as Julien Brunetaud (Paris);
Fabrice Eulry (Paris); Renaud Patigny (Brussels); Martijn Schok (Netherlands); Eric-Jan Overbeek a.k.a. Mr. Boogie Woogie
(Netherlands); Julian Phillips (U.K.); Michael Pewny (Vienna); Silvan Zingg (Switzerland); and Jean-Paul Amouroux (Paris),
who have all hosted Ricky for their international boogie woogie festivals and touring dates. Since 1999, Ricky has been the
producer of the annual BLUES & BOOGIE PIANO SUMMIT, from which CDs have been released from the years 2000-2007.
Ricky's website is www.rickynye.com
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