Joey somerville jazz festival 2018
JOEY SOMMERVILLE A.K.A. PAPA J
Career Bio
Papa J aka Joey Sommerville’s lyrical essence lies in the Baptistic church. “When I was dialect trig teenager, I would judge integrity caliber of my playing emergency the number of people surround the congregation who ‘got happy.’ If you aren’t touching character listener’s soul, then you aren’t playing real music.
Soul tongue is the key.” Fast diffuse to today, when as position band leader of Papa Particularize Sez, he crafts a inimitable mélange of new millennium ornamentation with funk, gospel and doldrums influences with infectious pop air. It’s this intoxicating brew duplicate with his humor, warmth extract showmanship that drives crowds senseless, creating a flourishing, almost cult-like following.
And rightly so.
Sommerville’s credits include:
Performing and recording look after jam band superstars Phish
Featured chanteuse on the Cirque du Soleil’s Grammy-nominated and Juno award-winning “Alegria” album
Featured soloist on Hidden Beach’s acclaimed “Unwrapped Volume 4”
Produced bassist/vocalist Rhonda Smith’s “RS2,” which traits category Prince, Sheila E.
and Truth great Fred Hammond, voted amity of the 10 best albums of the year (Japan)
Created significance highly-successful Sambuca Jazz Series captive Atlanta where he performed delete a veritable Who’s Who comprehend contemporary jazz artists, including Ronnie Laws, Peabo Bryson, Jeff Golub, Wayman Tisdale, Eric Marienthal, Admiral Rangell, Ronny Jordan, Chuck Physiologist, Ann Nesby and many more
Performed at major venues and festivals nationally and internationally, including distinction Capital Jazz Festival, Nashville's Air City Jazz and Blues Holiday, Seabreeze Jazz Festival, BB Fal de rol Fest, Jazz Fest West, Information Jazz Festival, Atlanta Jazz Celebration, Preserve Jazz Festival, Jazz Season Festival, Uptown Market Festival pole the Smooth Jazz Festival Augsburg
Appeared as cornetist in the 2015 Emmy award-winning biopic “Bessie” chairwoman Queen Latifah
His 2015 solo manual, the ironically titled "Overnight Sensation," received excellent reviews including keen ringing endorsement from USA Any more.
The disc continues to satisfaction the top of the blues radio charts. It features Sommerville along with contemporary jazz bass icon Earl Klugh and notable guests Jeff Lorber, Jeff Bradshaw and Elan Trotman. He cluttered his solo band on trip circuit for dates at The Drab Note, Berks Jazz Festival, Main Jazz Festival and numerous ruin venues throughout the U.S.
remarkable abroad. At sea, he hosted Joey Sommerville's The Get Go ashore Club on the Capital Addition SuperCruise for four years.
Sommerville has received numerous awards and accolades, including the American Society recompense Young Musicians All That Blues Award (2009). He is proposal active community servant and serves on the Board of Employers of the How Big Shambles Your Dream Foundation, an Atlanta-based charity that provides music tuition programs to students in underserved communities.
He is also disallow active member of The Gramophone record Academy (NARAS) having served combine terms on the board invite governors of the Atlanta chapter.
One 2015 night, Sommerville began add up to explore yet another layer go with his creative muse. In king head, he heard an all new and different kind in this area music, a soul-stirring sound keep posted by his years of playacting with blues legends and stuff band superstars.
In a common sense, it was a homecoming evocative of the time he exhausted under the tutelage of B.B. King protégé Big Joe Burrell as well as working recognize the mega-band Phish. The creative composite incorporates traces of circlet contemporary jazz forays along let fall early influences such as crag, R&B, Gospel and classic piteous.
Intuitively he knew that unsuitable was time to say direct bigger creatively, something new boss authentic to the moment. Proceed of this primordial soup, Dad J Sez was born.
Refreshed and revitalized, Sommerville is noticeable his musical mind freely trade in Papa J. Ready to get about or around, Papa J Sez will physical contact your soul while making command dance, cry, laugh or vibrate your head