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Winner of the 2024 Blues Foundation AND Living Blues Magazine InchKeyboardist of the YearInch award, and Downbeat magazine's critics award for favourite keyboardist, Kenny InchBlues BossInch is having a very good year. He received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Jus' Blues Foundation and is a member of the Boogie-Woogie Hall of Fame. Capping it off is his remarkably adventurous new album, InchOooh Yeah!Inch that stretches the boundaries of instrumentation for the blues, including matching non-traditional instruments like the banjo with a trombone heavy horn section.' Wayne kicks off the album with the high energy title song with a call and response-style lyric and a gospel/boogie-woogie beat.In this, Kenny's 80th year he is not slowing down, performing across North America, at European festivals, and on the high seas as a featured solo piano attraction on Blues Cruises, his virtuoso playing peppered with telling tales from a life in the Blues filled a plethora of musical adventures.

On InchFACES and PLACESInch, the new from saxophonist composer, Jed Levy, he takes the listener on a journey through the many perspectives and genres of music that have informed his vision of todays modern jazz. Along the way he tells stories and paints musical pictures of both people and places that have inspired him. All done in his own personal vocabulary formed by a diverse career in music which has included intersecting with people like the great pianist Jaki Byard, organists Jack McDuff and Don Patterson, Jam Band Funk with drummer Mike Clark and Charlie Hunter, Afro Cuban music with Chico O'Farrill, Swing with the Cab Calloway Orchestra and performances with The Temptations/The Four Tops. As a bandleader he has toured Asia, South America and Europe playing concerts and festivals in places as diverse as Port au Prince, Haiti to Kharkiv, Ukraine. Levy has 10 previous CD's on the SteepleChase and Reservoir Labels as well as over 40 appearances on recordings as a sideman. His compositional talents, which are prominently featured on this CD, have led to artists like The Headhunters, Don Friedman, Ron McClure, Eddie Henderson, Peter Leitch, Jack Walrath and Mike Clark recording his music. Joining him on this new are his stellar NYC working band featuring Grammy Winner LUIS PERDOMO- piano (Tom Harrell, Ravi Coltrane, Miguel Zenon), ALVESTER GARNETT-drums (Abbey Lincoln, Betty Carter, Regina Carter) and PETER SLAVOV-bass (Joe Lovano, Quincy Jones, Paul Winter). The synergy displayed by the quartet on this CD was forged over a series of gigs in NYC where it became clear to the leader that something greater than the sum of the parts was happening and it was time to record this group and the body of music they were performing. This CD is the product of that decision. The songs on this CD speak to the diversity of musical experience of not only their composer, but of t