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Rob Aries is a keyboard player and bassist for Average White Band. Rob also happens to be a formidable jazz player and in this episode we cover all of that plus some, in what’s been an amazing career to date.
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Discussion topics covered during the show (links will open in new tab):
Joining Average White Band (AWB)
Playing with AWB
On AWB being the 15th most sampled band in history
Pick up the Pieces – Average White Band
School Boy Crush – Average White Band
Musical upbringing
Learning from John Mehegan
John Mehegan – Once Again in Love
God Bless The Child – Blood, Sweat and Tears
Living and gigging in New York as a young man
Nite Sprite band in action in 1980
Average White Band and The Chicken Dance (spoiler: David got his research wrong)
Working with John Scofield
Rob in action with John Scofield – Protocol
John Scofield as band leader
Touring with a Yamaha KX-88 in a plywood case
Surviving the pandemic
Rock Me Tonight – Freddie Jackson
The Tascam 388
Rob playing on Freddie Jackson’s cover of Good Morning Heartache
Rob’s amazingly compact rig with Average White Band
Next 12 months and future of AWB
Thoughts for younger players and the challenges of current approach to music variety and melody
The Whitehall Grand Prix Duo combo organ
Tag a Keyboard Player: Jacob Collier, Jonah Nilsson
Desert Island Discs: The Real McCoy – McCoy Tyner, A Love Supreme – JOhn Coltrane (ideally a live version such as this), Now He Sings, Now He Sobs – Chick Corea, Thrust – Herbie Hancock,
Pimp Your T-Shirt: Boneyard
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