BBG & COMPANY
BBG & Company is a refined jazz-quartet comprised of Brian Batchelor-Glader on piano, Hammond Organ, and keyboard; Michael Sharfe thumping away on the string —and electric—bass; Joe Jahnigen keeping expert time with drums and percussion; and Brad Meyers bringing it home on guitar. The group performs often at The Blue Wisp Jazz club in downtown Cincinnati where they recorded their album, “Live At The Blue Wisp,” which is a collection of Jazz standards and fusion mixes ranging from Miles Davis to the Violent Femmes.
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Floyd and the Walkmen
Floyd and the Walkmen are a Cincinnati-based rock-pop party band perfect for your business party, wedding, or private event. Check out and like our Facebook page here.
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The Organized Gentlemen
More information about BBG’s forthcoming project, The Organized Gentlemen, is coming soon.
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Old Green Eyes & BBG
Old Green Eyes & BBG is a swingin’ jazz-duo with over 500 classic lounge-era hits in their song list covering greats such as Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., and Mel Torme. Dan Radank (Old Green Eyes) sings note-perfect and plays trumpet while BBG lays down the heart and soul on the piano. This elegant duo is perfect for special occasions, weddings, dinner parties, and more. The act can also be expanded with additional instrumentation to create a trio with piano and bass; quartet with piano, bass and drums; and as a small group with rhythm section and additional horns including alto, tenor, and trombone.
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ECLIPSE MOVEMENT
Eclipse Movement is BBG’s main band, which he helped to create in 2005. BBG participates in writing and producing many of the group’s songs where he plays keyboard and crowd favorite, the Keytar. This award-winning Hip-Hop, Jazz, Funk, Fusion group has been touring around the Cincinnati-area and the country to the delight of music fans and critics everywhere. Eclipse Movement is considered to be one of the top live acts in the city and is a multiple Cincinnati Entertainment Awards (CEA) winner with their latest studio release, “Around the World,” ranked as “Best Album of 2011” by CityBeat magazine.
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Mambo Combo
With Mambo Combo there has long been a love affair between jazz and Latin rhythms, with American jazz musicians finding Latin styles exotic and Latin musicians equally fascinated by jazz. Both cultures have independently drawn on the music of Africa, which forms the third leg of this love triangle – producing music that is powerfully exciting rhythmically, deeply felt in the body, by turns celebratory and yearning. In Cincinnati, the latest expression of that love affair is Mambo Combo.
Celebrating the classic mambo, Latin jazz and cha-cha of Tito Puente, Cal Tjader, Poncho Sanchez and Mark Levine, Mambo Combo has its compass set toward Cuba. It’s stocked with an all-star cast of Cincinnati-area musicians from the bands Tropicoso, ZUMBA, Mambo Diablo, Salsa Renegades and the Blue Wisp Big Band. A four- to seven- piece group that can pare down to play intimate venues or go full-size to bring a powerful big-band-style Latin dance feel, Mambo Combo has also adapted a roster of compelling American jazz standards into the Latin jazz idiom.
With musical director Michael Sharfe on bass, Charles Ali Schweitzer as primary percussionist and Baba Charles Miller as auxiliary percussionist, Brian Batchelor-Glader on piano, Tim McCord on reeds, John Zappa on trumpet and various local greats on trombone, Mambo Combo is made up of first-call players with distinguished musical resumés, all in heavy demand for live and studio work.
The band has built its monthly Cincinnati club residencies — at the historic Greenwich jazz club in Walnut Hills; the opulent Palm Court at downtown’s Netherland Hilton; and the city’s newest jazz hot spot, Caffe Vivace in Walnut Hills — into an exuberant Cuban Carnival dance scene, drawing a fervent group of followers who show up to salsa wherever Mambo Combo performs around the tri-state.
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THE PHILIP MYERS BAND
The Philip Myers Band is one of the top corporate-event bands touring the country and the world today. This high-octane group is built with only the most talented and gifted musicians who provide the foundation behind Philip’s extravagant shows performed for a select and exclusive clientele and often as the backing band for music legends such as Toto, Eddie and the Cruisers, and Tommy Tutone. Philip and his musicians do a stellar job running the gamut of music, ranging from Jazz Standards, Pop, Top-Forty, Rock ‘N Roll, Latin, Hip-Hop, 50s-to-Now Hits, and Classic Oldies.
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JUST STRANGE BROTHERS
Just Strange Brothers provides high-quality music for social engagements that includes corporate, private parties, festivals and receptions. The basic band is made up of seven core members who create a well-balanced soundscape consisting of drums, bass, lead guitar, rhythm guitar, keyboard, lead vocals, backing vocals, and horn and percussion sections. This dynamic setup allows JSB to play a wide range of popular music in almost any genre with a lineup that can be augmented by a variety of other instrumentalists. Just Strange Brothers musicians attended some of the best music colleges in the country and know how to keep perfect time, play in key, make whip snap changes, create amazing solos, riff on classic tunes, and, above all, how to keep audiences moving and grooving throughout the entire engagement.
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