Live 2025 [CD]

The Blues Project: On the cutting edge of improvisational, classical, blues, and jazz... funky, eclectic music from the golden '60s to the resurgent present. Back in the mythic Summer of Love, 1967 - when the culture was turn-turn-turning - if you were in New York, the place to be was MacDougal Street. The club to be in was The Caf' Au Go Go, pedigreed in hipness by Lenny Bruce's famous profanity bust there by the NYPD. The Au Go Go's star band was The Blues Project, a group on the cutting edge of improvisational, classical, blues, and jazz. Al Kooper was the Project's keyboardist and vocalist; Steve Katz, it's guitarist and vocalist; founder Danny Kalb, lead guitarist and vocalist; Andy Kulberg, bassist and flutist; and the drummer-the heartbeat-for the group was Roy Blumenfeld. Drummer, vocalist, and quietly legendary figure of the era, Blumenfeld has not stopped shaking things up-making music that's both forward-thinking and nostalgic-in the decades since. Based in Sonoma County, California, since 1985, his professional bio traces the arc of funky, eclectic music from the golden '60s to the resurgent present. In April of 2025 The Blues Project kicked off their Northern California tour with Blumenfeld joined by David Aguilar (worked with Norton Buffalo), Ken Clark (Michelle Willson), Tim Eschliman (Commander Cody & His Western Airmen), and Mark Newman (Sam Moore). Great crowds appeared, reviews came in and the momentum carries over into a fall run for the band in Northern California. They will perform their classic hits, including former member Al Kooper's 'I Can't Keep from Crying Sometimes", "Electric Flute Thing," and "Wake Me, Shake Me". Arne Frager from Plant Studios recorded 2 of those shows, which make up the contents of this album.