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Black Stone Raiders European Tour (June/July 2011)

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Guitarist/songwriter Jean-Paul Bourelly is hooking up with two of his old friends to form an exciting new power  trio called Black Stone Raiders. Bourelly’s childhood buddy Darryl Jones (Rolling Stones) and long time associate Will Calhoun (Boom Bop, Living Color) are coming to Europe to throw down in the month of June. The music will be funky and rocky and feature some of Bourelly’s latest creations helped out by two of the most dynamic musicians in progressive music.

Dates

Date Location Venue

Fr.,03.Juni Stuttgart (DE) Bix
Sa.,04.Juni Bern (CH) Tell’s Saal
So.,05.Juni off
Mo.,06.Juni Salzburg (A) Rockhouse
Die.,07.Juni Habach (DE) Village
Mi.,08.Juni Hannover (DE) Jazzclub
Do.,09.Juni Essen (DE) Zeche Carl
Fr.,10.Juni Münster (DE) Hot Jazz Club
Sa.,11.Juni Dresden (DE) Tante Ju
So.,12.Juni Berlin (DE) Quasimoddo
Mo.,13.Juni Halle (DE) Objekt 5
Die.,14.Juni Erfurt (DE) Museumskeller
Mi.,15.Juni off
Do.,16.Juni Dornbirn (AU) Conrad Sohm
Fr.,17.Juni Ried (AU) KiK
Sa.,18.Juni off
So.,19.Juni Meran (IT) Gomp Alm Festival
Mo.,20.Juni Wien (AU) Porgy
Die.,21.Juni Off Day
Mi.,22.Juni Völkermarkt (AU) Step
Do.,23.Juni Graz (AU) Orpheum
Fr.,24.Juni Lienz (AU) Autohaus
Sa.,25.Juni Udine (IT) Festival
So.,26.Juni Maribor (SI) Lent
So.,01.Juli Moscow (RU) Forte Club
So.,02.Juli Perm (RU) Movement Festival

Check the vibe here:

Links

www.bourelly.com
www.darryljones.com
www.willcalhoun.com
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Jean-Paul Bourelly’s 50th Birthday Celebration Performance

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MAGIC OF THE NOW
JEAN-PAUL BOURELLY’s 50TH ANNIVERSARY PERFORMANCE

I am honored and excited to announce that my friends Archie Shepp, Jamaladeen Tacuma and Joe Bowie are coming to play with me on the 22 Nov to ring in my 50th birthday at the A-trane. I can’t think of a better way to begin the next half century.

I first met the legendary Archie Shepp in 1998 when when we played together at popkomm in Koln. My brother Carl and I used to listen to his records when we were kids. My favorite songs was called “Steam” and Archie and I played that song in that first Koln concert. Later we got the chance to collaborate in a wonderful way on my record Boom Bop.

The amazing Joe Bowie I first heard at the Peppermint lounge in New York with his group Defunkt. In those days all the guitar players wanted to get into that group because he was known to give the guitar space to expand and with Joe as the front man, it was clear they were destined for stardom.
He invited me later at New Yorks Knitting Factory, to record the  Defunkt Special edition, “Tribute to Muddy Waters”.

My friendship with the irrepressible Jamaaladeen Tacuma started out in Philadelphia in 97 after a European tour with the recording of the group Brotherzone. Tacuma makes everyone just sound better. He is one of my favorite bassist of all time, mixing R&B with Jazz with harmolodic vibes that always keep his bass ideas cooking.

As for me Jean Paul Bourelly, I’ve been known as a force in new funk forms and I love to mix musical genre’s so this evening will surely turn into a high energy, multi dimensional groove party.

Blues Bandits

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Responding to an endless search to transcend the blues, Native Chicago born guitarist, conceptualist Jean-Paul Bourelly assembled a deeply rooted and multi-cultural group of the finest musicians of modern blues terrain.

In this project, each musician  brings to the table his own language of blues culture.

“Blues is like any other music in that it needs regeneration to stay relevant. Each person feeds their special take on that feeling into the pot of gumbo we call Blues Bandits.”

Lead Vocals Dean Bowman himself influenced by the legendary vocalizer Leon Thomas has a strong background in the church, is no stranger to the blues and experimentation.

Bourelly heard Sako Fily during a concert from his longtime friend singer Abdourahmane Diop (Boom Bop). Fily is the nephew of the great Kora master Toumani Diabaté  brings an pedigree as well as a hypnotic flavor to rhythm.

Wynton Kelly Stevenson is the young urban voice of the blues and one that Bourelly took special interest in. The two met in a small club in Berlin’s Neuköln district. “This cat came in with a belt around his waist, full of harmonicas, a few effects and a RAT (portable amp) and what I heard was fresh, I mean fresh enough that I had to go and borrow an old beat up guitar from the backroom and jam with him.”

Darryl Taylor a Houston Texas native is well grounded in blues and R&B having a long association with 60’s soul group Archie Bell and the Drells.

What followed was Bourelly inviting him along with Fily to his Spontaneous Situation musician night. The group and the sound are born out of the musical exchanges during those 7 Spontaneous shows.

JEAN-PAUL BOURELLYs 3KINGS

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Live at the Quasimodo
Dienstag, 30.09.2008
Kantstasse 12a, Berlin-Charlottenburg, Tel. 030 318045-6
(U+S-Bahn Zoologischer Garten)

Jean-Paul Bourelly’s latest group is called 3Kings.
The trio consists  of drummer Marlon Browden (Nora Jones and John Scofield) and bassist Jonas “Bibi” Hammond former bassist (with Ali Hassan Kuban) and  Bourelly’s rhythmic meaty guitar.
3Kings music is a band that creates its sound from riding on rhythmic currents, highlighted by rugged cymbal work, deep bass grooves and a moody, stratospheric guitar.
This concoction is blended into a sound that is at once mystical and modern.   »more info

THE BAND OF GYPSY’s RELOADED

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Jean-Paul Bourelly – guitar
Melvin Gibbs – bass
Grant Calvin Weston – drums
BAND OF GYPSY's RELOADED

Tour Spring 2008   (March 17. – April 4.)

18.03. DORTMUND(D)  – FZW
19.03. KASSEL(D)  –  Schlachthof
20.03. STUTTGART(D)  – BoomTown-Festival/Bix
22.03. BERLIN(D)  – A-Trane
23.03. BERLIN(D)  – A-Trane
24.03. AMSTERDAM(NL)  – Bimhuis
27.03. MANNHEIM(D)  – Alte Feuerwache
28.03. KREFELD(D)  –  Kulturpunkt
29.03. KÖLN(D)  – Pfandhaus
01.04. INNSBRUCK(A)  – Treibhaus
02.04. WIEN(A)  – Reigen/Festival
03.04. VELDEN(A)  – Bluesiana

»Penthesilea«

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21. February 2008      Schaubühne Berlin
Experimentaljazz im Krieg der Geschlechter
Gitarrist Jean-Paul Bourelly spielt in Percevals »Penthesilea«-Version
(Premiere. 21.2.08)    »review      »more info

Für Luk Perceval gehört der Krieg in jener Welt, in der Heinrich von Kleists Amazonen-Drama »Penthesilea« spielt, zum Alltag.
Frau und Mann sind im Kampf der Geschlechter gefangen und menschliche Beziehungen nachhaltig von den Traumata des Krieges geprägt.
Umgeben von Jahrtausende altem Ur-Misstrauen ist es unmöglich, Liebe zu verwirklichen und zu leben.

Luk Percevals Lesart macht Penthesileas Liebeswahn, in dessen finalem »Crime of Passion« sie Achills Herz verschlingt, in poetischer Form greifbar, indem er mit Jean-Paul Bourelly zusammen arbeitet, dessen Improvisationen auf der E-Gitarre Teil der Bühnenaktion sind.
Er konzipiert den Theaterabend gleichsam als eine Art »Konzert«, dessen klangliches Spektrum – in Wort und Musik – an der großen, gewalttätigen Dimension des Kleist’schen Stücks intensiv teilhaben lässt.