US Roots and Blues Storyteller King Solomon Hicks, live at The 100 Club with his new album 'HARLEM', supported by Toby Lee.
US Roots and Blues Storyteller King Solomon Hicks, live at The 100 Club with his new album 'HARLEM', supported by Toby LeeTickets - https://bit.ly/3MDFpxj 19:30 // £16 adv//
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Presented by FUTURE JUKE: A FESTIVAL OF 21ST CENTURY BLUES PRESENTS
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King Solomon Hicks has announced his debut album, 'HARLEM', which will be released on 13th March, 2020 via Provogue, a division of Mascot Label GroupYou can pre-order the album here
The 24 year old grew up in Harlem "around a lot of great musicians," he saysThe city is synonymous with vibrancy, art and music ever since the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and 1930sSituated in Manhattan, New York City, that period saw a creative surge sweep the neighborhood, which included writer and political activist Hubert Harrison, entertainer and civil rights activist Josephine Baker as well as the rise of legendary jazz players such as Duke Ellington who was one of the early performers at the now world famous Cotton ClubThe Jazz scene was exploding with the likes of Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Cab Calloway, Fats Waller, Billie Holiday, and Bessie Smith all coming through the city and that was just the tip of the icebergWhilst Harlem has been home to the greats such as Al Pacino, the Marx Brothers, James Reese Europe, George and Ira Gershwin, Arthur Miller, Sammy Davis Jr, Sonny Rollins…the list goes onThere's something in the water there
Music runs through the veins of the city, so there was no doubt that the young Hicks, who was only 6 years old when he started playing the guitar, was going to absorb those surroundingsBy 13 he was on the stage at the Cotton Club, four times a week, as lead guitarist in the clubs' 17 piece band and was already playing in legendary venues such as StNick's in Sugar Hill and the iconic Lenox Lounge which Malcolm X had been a patron, and had seen the likes of Miles Davis and John Coltrane grace the stage
His full debut, 'HARLEM' is produced by multiple Grammy Award winner Kirk Yano (Miles Davis, Public Enemy, Mariah Carey), and showcases Hicks as a writer, player and interpreterOriginals such as the roadhouse ready '421 South Main,' the gospel shuffle of 'Have Mercy on Me' and the aching instrumental 'Riverside Drive,' he rubs musical elbows with staples such as "'Everyday I Sing the Blues' and 'It's Alright,' a Latin-tinged take on Blood, Sweat and Tears' 'I Love You More Than You Will Ever Know,' a funked-up romp through Gary Wright's 'Love is Alive' and a searing rendition of Sonny Boy Williamson's 'Help Me' that closes the album
Hicks has been steeped in music for as long as he can remember"It's not like New Orleans, where music is 24 hours a day -- but it's close." His mother also took him, as a youngster, to local nightspots, "when you're around good musicians, it gives you that spark -- 'I want to do what you doI want to hold my own,'" says Hicks"But being around those types of musicians also taught me to NOT be the fastest guitar playerI wanted to be the one who knew the most riffs and drew on a lot of knowledge so I could play anything, and with anyone."
He enrolled to the Harlem School of Arts and the prestigious educational program Jazzmobile, and while performing on his home turf, he also expanded to venues such as the Iridium, the Red Rooster, Ashford and Simpson's Sugar Bar, Terra Blues and moreAfter high school Hicks began playing in Europe, opening for Jeff Beck and Ringo Starr, playing festivals in Spain and France, as well as at the Cotton Club in Tokyo, and being booked on KISS Kruise V in 2017 and on this year's Joe Bonamassa Blues Alive at Sea CruiseHe's shared stages with the likes of Tony Bennett, Beth Hart, George Thorogood and the Destroyers, Mavis Staples, Paul Shaffer and othersHe has also performed at the United Nations in New York City, for former Mayor of New York City, Michael Bloomberg, former Governor of New York David Paterson and during a New York Knicks game
Since the 6 year old Solomon picked up the guitar, it has all led to this moment and that certainly shows on 'HARLEM', an 11-song salute to those roots -- and how the 24-year-old guitarist and singer has turned them into his own fierce and distinctive style"This has been a long time coming," he says of his first major recording, "but I'm really happy with the sound and the way everybody playedThis music is where I come fromIt's really special to be able to record these songs -- and really important to get 'em right."
Hicks and Yano started working on HARLEM two years ago, finishing up during late 2019"It was just about getting my own sound together," explains Hicks, who was aided by a corps of players that includes members of Soulive, Lettuce, Jack White and Hank William Jr.'s band and others -- including Foghat/Savoy Brown veteran Roger Earl "I didn't want it to be traditional,"
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