Located at 431 W 16th St
New York, NY 10011
between 9th and 10th Ave
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City Champs
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North Mississippi Allstars
February 26,2010
NORTH MISS ALLSTARS ARE IN NYC AND READY TO PERFORM. TONIGHT'S SHOW IS STILL ON!
Concert starts @ 9PM
Doors open @ 7PM
Tickets $24.00
Buy Tickets Online [more]
Full dinner menu available / General Admission Standing Room Only / All Ages
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The City Champs are the latest in a long lineage of Memphis musicians to grab the mantle of funky, soul-jazz instrumentals pioneered by acts like Booker T & the MGs, Willie Mitchell and The Bar-Kays.
“The Safecracker” features 7 prime cuts of Memphis Stax inspired soul-jazz and funk, produced and engineered by Memphis producer and film composer, Scott Bomar (the Bo-Keys, “Hustle & Flow” & “Soul Men”) at his Electraphonic Recording studio. The sessions were tracked and mixed entirely on analog tape—Bomar used his Scully 1” 8-track machine, which was the same model used at Stax, Muscle Shoals Sound, and Chip's Moman’s American Studio.
The City Champs are lead by guitarist, Joe Restivo, who holds a BFA in Jazz Studies from the prestigous New School, in the Jazz and Contemporary Music program, where he studied with Jack Wilkins, Junior Mance, Cecil Bridgewater, and Phil Markowitz.
Organist Al Gamble, hails from the Muscle Shoals, Alabama region, and has performed live and on recordings with such notables as Rufus Thomas, Syl Johnson, Alex Chilton, and the Memphis Horns.
Drummer George Sluppick is a native Memphian who has spent most of his life on the road performing live and recording with JJ Grey and MOFRO, Ruthie Foster, Albert King, Robert Walter's 20th Congress, and George Pajon Jr.
The Vinyl is mastered straight off analog tapes, directly to disc by Larry Nix on same Neumann lathe he used daily at Stax. City Champs homepage
City Champs MySpace
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