Heritage Blues Orchestra
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The New York City-based trio of Junior Mack, the late Bill Sims Jr., and Sims' daughter Chaney Sims began cooking up jazz-flavored bluesy delights with gospel flourishes in 2008. The clueâs in the name; HBOâs USP is its orchestra, a horn section comprising a crackerjack Franco-American team who infuse traditional blues with the jazzy spirit of New Orleans. Among these players are Vincent Bucher (harmonica), Grammy-awarding winning blues drummer Kenny âBeedy Eyesâ Smith, and a horn section of Bruno Wilhelm (tenor saxophone), Kenny Rampton (trumpet), Steve Wiseman (trumpet), and Clark Gayton (trombone, tuba, and sousaphone). Celebrating African-American musical traditions, 2012 marked the release of debut and the groupâs only album to date, And Still I Rise, which was nominated for Best Blues Album at the 2013 Grammy Awards and co-produced by the municipality of Aulnay-sous-Bois (Seine-Saint-Denis). Bill Sims passed away on February 2, 2019.
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