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Live at the Upstream | Blicker Blues Band
January 14, 2023 @ 8:00 pm
$15
Live at the Upstream
Saturday, January 14th
8:00pm
Upstream Gallery
8 Main Street Hastings-on-Hudson, NY 10706
Blicker Blues Band with Erik Blicker, guitar and vocals; Bill Reeve, drums; Kevin Farrell, bass; Steve Horelick, keys
Erik Blicker is a producer, songwriter and composer.
Erik Blicker composes music for Film and Television and has scored the theme song for ABC’s The View, episodes of Anthony Bourdain and a Documentary oh HBO about The downfall of radio talk show host Craig Carton. His music. Erik’s music can be heard world wide. Branding ESPN Sports Center Baseball segment and CBS March Madness NCAA .
He scored “The NIne Lives of Marion Barry” On HBO by Dan Flor and Toby Oppenhiemert, a documentary about the first black mayor of Washington D.C.
Blicker wrote and produced the track. Ben Stivers(Greg Allman, Lyle Lovett, The Bee Gees) Played the dreamy piano. Eric Kalb (Sharon Jones, Dr. Lonnie Smith, Deep Banana Pocket, Eric Krasno) The drummer on the track.
Bill Reeve
Drums
Drummer Phil Stewart has been a staple on the New York jazz scene for almost 2 decades.Studying with such master drummers as Vernel Fornier, Jimmy Cobb, Joe Morello, Joe Farnsworth and Sam Ulano Phil has learned the art of Jazz drumming from its very creators. As a member of his brother Tenor player Grant Stewart's quartet Phil has performed all over the world including Japan, France, Germany, Holland and Uruguay. As a sideman Phil has had the pleasure of performing with some of the world's leading Jazz musicians including Brad Mehldau , Peter Bernstein, Harold Maybern, Harry Allen, Hank Jones, Bill Charlap, Peter Washington, Barry Harris and Johnny O'neal.
Although he's performed in all the major jazz venues in NYC including The Blue Note, The Jazz standard, The Iridium and Birdland Phil honed his skills playing in west village jazz institutions Smalls and Fat Cat. A veteran of over 30 recordings 2018 marks the debut of Phil Stewart as a leader. The album " Melodious Drum" on Cellar Live records features an all star line up hand picked by Phil based on the chemistry and kinship of the collective whole.
