Stephen Blum and Code 111 Organ Trio at Fat Cat

Steve and the Code 111 Organ Trio-)- Stephen Blum, guitar , Ehud Hammond B3 and Jason Brown , drums-great opportunity to hear an authentic jazz organ trio with the veteran guitarist Steve Blum -

"His taste and chops are impeccable… Blum has explored rather vast reaches of the world’s musical landscape completely on his own terms.”

-Clifford Allen, The Austinist


Master guitarist Stephen Blum’s career has taken him around the world with some of the biggest names in jazz and popular music. He has appeared at many top music venues and festivals such as The Montreal Jazz Festival, Maine Festival of the Arts, The Great American Music Hall, Yoshi’s Jazz Club (SF), Cape Cod Jazz Festival, The French Quarter Festival (New Orleans),Smalls Jazz Club (NYC), Wall Street Jazz Festival, SESC Concerts Sao Paulo, Brazil, Snug Harbor, New Orleans and the Portland Performing Arts Center, Portland, Maine. Stephen Blum was also honored by the San Francisco Bay Jazz Society by a unanimous vote to perform with his own group at the Milestones Jazz Club, one of the city’s top performance venues....

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Steve and the Code 111 Organ Trio-)- Stephen Blum, guitar , Ehud Hammond B3 and Jason Brown , drums-great opportunity to hear an authentic jazz organ trio with the veteran guitarist Steve Blum -

"His taste and chops are impeccable… Blum has explored rather vast reaches of the world’s musical landscape completely on his own terms.”

-Clifford Allen, The Austinist


Master guitarist Stephen Blum’s career has taken him around the world with some of the biggest names in jazz and popular music. He has appeared at many top music venues and festivals such as The Montreal Jazz Festival, Maine Festival of the Arts, The Great American Music Hall, Yoshi’s Jazz Club (SF), Cape Cod Jazz Festival, The French Quarter Festival (New Orleans),Smalls Jazz Club (NYC), Wall Street Jazz Festival, SESC Concerts Sao Paulo, Brazil, Snug Harbor, New Orleans and the Portland Performing Arts Center, Portland, Maine. Stephen Blum was also honored by the San Francisco Bay Jazz Society by a unanimous vote to perform with his own group at the Milestones Jazz Club, one of the city’s top performance venues.

Performing on acoustic and electric guitars, as well as the Puerto Rican cuatro, he can coax many sounds from his instruments. “The Stream,” for example, has a very fluid and dreamy quality. A Thelonious Monk bebop composition, “Bright Mississippi,” is presented with plenty of twang of the slide guitar… Like Monk, the rendition displays a copious amount of personality and technique … Throughout this CD, he is right on, emphasizing his astute understanding of the evolution of jazz music and his own personal vision…Stephen Blum is a remarkable musician. “



-Joe Ross, Roots Music Report, CDInsight

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