BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.3.6//EN TZID:America/New_York X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:798@wnyblues.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230413T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230413T220000 DTSTAMP:20230303T184125Z URL:https://wnyblues.org/events/bruce-katz-band-blue-thursday-at-sportsmen s-7-10/ SUMMARY:Bruce Katz Band Blue Thursday at Sportsmens Tavern 7PM DESCRIPTION:Bruce Katz Band Blue Thursday @the Sportsmens - Tickets\nBRUCE KATZ\nBio\nBruce Katz is a legendary keyboardist (Hammond B3 and Piano) wh o has released 11 albums as a leader and has appeared on over 75 other CDs with the likes of John Hammond\, Delbert McClinton\, Ronnie Earl\, Little Milton\, Butch Trucks\, Duke Robillard\, David "Fathead" Newman\, and man y\, many others.\nHe has also had a strong musical connection with the All man Brothers Band\, and was a member of Gregg Allman's band for six years (2007-2013)\, Jamoe's Jasssz Band (2010-2015)\, Butch Trucks' Freight Trai n Band and Les Brers (2015-2017). Bruce also occasionally toured with the Allman Brothers as well.\nBruce is a six time (2008\, 2009\, 2010\, 2015\, 2019\, 2020) Nominee for the Blues Music Award (W.C. Handy Award) for "Pi netop Perkins Piano Player of the Year"\, selected by the Blues Foundation of Memphis\, TN. He won the BMA for Acoustic Blues Album of the Year in 2 019 for his collaboration with Joe Louis Walker and Giles Robson for Journ eys to the Heart of the Blues and is nominated again in 2020 for the same award for his acoustic piano album Solo Ride. He was also nominated for "O utstanding Musician (Keyboards)" by Living Blues Magazine in 2015 and 2019 .\n​\nHe is a unique player and composer who combines Blues and American Roots music with elements of jazz\, and improvisational rock music that c reates a signature sound that is all is own.\n​\nBruce was an Associate Professor at the Berklee College of Music for fourteen years (1996-2010)\, teaching Harmony\, Hammond organ labs\, Blues History and Private Piano I nstruction.\n​\nBruce began playing piano at age 5 and has a lengthy bac kground in classical piano. After hearing a Bessie Smith record when he wa s 10 years old\, he started teaching himself blues and early jazz on the p iano. He then heard boogie-woogie and swing music and continued his musica l journey into more aspects of jazz and American roots music. Bruce attend ed Berklee College of Music in the mid-1970s\, studying Composition and Pe rformance.\n​\nFor the next fifteen years\, he performed with many of th e leading musicians in New England and played “on the road” for long s tretches of time. In the early 1980s\, Bruce played with Big Mama Thornton on her East Coast tours and this experience revived his desire to play Bl ues Music as a primary focus.\nAfter a particularly long stint of touring in the late '80s with Barrence Whitfield and the Savages\, he decided to c ome off the road and enrolled at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston where he earned a Master's degree in Jazz Performance and studied w ith Geri Allen\, Paul Bley\, Cecil McBee\, and George Russell. It was duri ng this time that he conceived of and started writing music that became th e Bruce Katz Band.\n​\nIn 1992\, he met Ronnie Earl\, who soon invited h im to join his band\, The Broadcasters. During his nearly five-year stint with Earl\, Katz toured the world and performed on six albums\, writing an d co-writing many of the tunes\, such as "The Colour of Love\," "Ice Cream Man\," and "Hippology." The album “Grateful Heart” (Bullseye) won the Downbeat Critics Poll for Best Blues Album of 1996.\n​\nIn 1992 as well \, Katz debuted his first solo album\, "Crescent Crawl"\, on the AudioQues t label. He released "Transformation" the following year. Just before the release of "Mississippi Moan" in 1997\, his third solo album\, Katz left t he Broadcasters to concentrate on a solo career. At that point\, the Bruce Katz Band began touring the U.S. and Europe\, and has been his ongoing fo cus\, in addition to his many other projects.\n​\nIn these years\, Bruce played with Duke Robillard (2001-02)\, John Hammond (2005 – present)\, Gregg Allman (2007-13)\, Delbert McClinton (2011-2014) and many other high profile roots\, blues\, and rock performers\, while continuing to tour an d record with his own band.\n​\nHis albums have consistently appeared hi gh on the national and international radio play charts and have garnered c ritical and popular acclaim.\n​\nBruce has also been the subject of feat ure stories and reviews in most of the leading blues and jazz publications throughout the world.\n​\nIn addition to performing\, Katz teaches pian o\, Hammond organ and theory privately at his studio in West Shokan\, NY. Bruce teaches long-distance online "Skype" lessons as well. He also conduc ts Master Classes in Blues/Jazz Piano Style and History\, Hammond B3 and B lues History\, which he has done at various schools\, universities and mus ic festivals worldwide.\n​\nFormerly from Boston\, Bruce has been based in Woodstock\, NY since 2005.\n​\n​\n©2021by Bruce Katz Band\nwww.bru cekatzband.com ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://i0.wp.com/wnyblues.org/wp-content/upload s/2023/01/April2023-BlueThursday-Bruce-Kats.jpg?fit=960%2C540&ssl=1 CATEGORIES:Blue Society Event,Live Blues Music LOCATION:Sportsmens Tavern\, 326 Amherst Street\, Buffalo\, New York\, 142 07\, United States GEO:42.937772;-78.891826 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=326 Amherst Street\, Buffal o\, New York\, 14207\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Sportsmen s Tavern:geo:42.937772,-78.891826 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20230312T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR