Big James Biography

Blues often suffers from too much of the same old sound. But, Big James is different from today’s blues re-hash. The Chicago-based singer, songwriter,producer, and trombone player was heavily influenced by the late Little Milton Campbell. Big James’s voice is as big as his girth. He combines blues, soul, R&B & funk in his horn-drenched music.
His music is strongly influenced by James Brown, Little Milton, O.V. Wright, Albert King, Luther Allison, Bobby "Blue" Bland, Prince, & P-Funk. They take the music where it hasn’t been. Big James has shared the stage with some of the biggest names in the Blues industry. He has played with Little Milton, Albert King, Otis Rush, & Rock & Roll Hall-of-Famer Blues God Buddy Guy!! He has also shared the stage with Eric Clapton, George Clinton & Parliament/Funkadelic, Lou Rawls, Dan Ackroyd, Koko Taylor, Larry Coryell, Derek Trucks, & many others. He has also performed on The Tonight Show!! Big James is a 3-time winner of the Living Blues Magazine’s Critic’s Choice Award for Most Outstanding Horn Player in the Blues Industry!!! He was recently nominated for his 6th BLUES MUSIC AWARD!!! IN 2017 Big James was inducted into THE CHICAGO BLUES HALL OF FAME AS A MASTER BLUES ARTISTS!!! N 2019 Big James released his 8th CD A DOSE OF THE BLUES on The Jamot Music Record Label and it is RECEIVING RAVE REVIEWS all over the WORLD!!!

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Richard Koechli

Richard Koechli (1962) is an independent roots music artist from Switzerland; a guitarist, singer and songwriter who has been moving in the melting pot of Blues, Country, Folk and Rock for 32 years. He has played with well known artists such as Larry Garner («I‘ll never forget your slide-guitar!»), Greg Koch («Koechli plays great and he‘s a very nice guy»), Philipp Fankhauser («he‘s the only one of the roots & blues guys in Switzerland able to lay it sooo far back until it gets that very particular J.J. Cale kinda feel»), Lilly Martin, Jens Kruger and many more. Richard has released 10 albums under his own name, he won the SWISS BLUES AWARD 2013 and the SWISS FILM AWARD 2014 (best soundtrack), and he is known for successful guitar-books released under the german publisher AMA-Verlag (one of them, 'Masters of Blues Guitar', won the BEST GERMAN EDITION 2011) and for music-historical german novels (tredition-Verlag).

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Innes Sibun

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Tony Lee King

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