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Danny Kalb -- 20 Years Later

Returns on Four In-Store CD Titles

 The Blues Project's Legendary Founder/Guitarist Releases First Solo Album
and is Featured on Verve/Polygram, MusicMasters/BMG and Fantasy CD Sets


       June 1996 -- New York, NY -- Following a twenty year hiatus fiom the recording
studio, The Blues Project founder Danny Kalb's trademark dazzling guitar'licks and
blues-infused vocal stylings can be heard on four concurrent releases. They include: his
solo-album debut Livin' With The Blues (Legend Records, French import); the double
CD-set, Soul of a Man: Al Kooper Live (MusicMasters/BMG); the four CD-set, The
Prestige/Folklore Years (Fantasy); and the upcoming The Blues Project Anthology
(September 1996 - Ven/e/Polygram). Cumulatively, these multiple releases chart the
evolution of Kalb's influential folk, blues and jazz guitar work, creating a stunning 30 year
musjcal career retrospective.
       A protege of the great Dave Van Ronk, Kalb established himself on New York's
seminal folk and blues scene itl the '60s, where he was first known as a solo performer and
session player wjth Phil Ochs, Judy Collins, Pete Seeger, and others, and later in The
New Strangers duo with Sam Charters. In 1965, Kalb founded Verve/Folkways
recording group, The Blues Project, with Al Kooper, Roy Blumenfeld, Andy Kulberg,
Tommy Flanders and Steve Katz. Even today, this important group flourishes with in-
demarhd/sold-out shows and nlunerous album reissues/compilatiolIs (MCA, Polygram,
Rhino, One Way).
      According to Sam Charters, "It was generally conceded... that ... Kalb was the
 most exciting of the new players. We met when we were both playing in Dave [Van
 Ronk'sl Rag-time Jug Stompers... After these apprentice years... he became a founder
 of The Blues Project, one of the seminal rock bands of the '60s... He still performs in
 Greenwich Village clubs, and... has been working on an album which combines his
 extraordinary blues technique with some of the new, free guitar music... His touch on the
 guitar is as exciting and as individual as ever." 
      From folk to blues to jazz, nanny Kalb's experimental mindset and talent played a
 silSllificant part in redefining musical genres and bound~-ies. These four CD releases
 represent but the most recent chapters. Danny Kalb's story continues to unfold as he
 brings his incendiar, guitar style to a new generation of students, musicians and fans.



from: In-Media
Contacts: Jane Blumenfeld 212-447-0077  Arthur Levy 914-426-6494
167 Madison Ave. Ste 501, NYC 10016 T:212.447-0077 F:212.447.0044 E:inmedia jb@aol.com
This document courtesy In-Media and posted here with their permission and our thanx!! 
c. 1996

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