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Live Review: Sauce Boss @ Upper Deck in Mt. Airy 12/12/19

12/13/2019

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Finally got to cross one off my bucket list last night: Seeing the Sauce Boss live.

Like many, I was introduced to the Florida Bluesman through the first “Live at Margaritaville Cafe” recording in the early 90s. Back then he was working with his backing band, The Ingredients. Their two cuts on the album were easily my favorites.

Fans know he was the inspiration for Jimmy Buffet’s “I Will Play for Gumbo,” specifically the verse:

“The sauce boss does his cookin' on the stage,
Stirrin' and a singing for his nightly wage.
Sweating and frettin' from his head to his toe,
Playin' and swayin' with the gumbo
Prayin' and buffetin' with the gumbo”

The key ingredient to a Sauce Boss show, besides the blistering music, is the pot of gumbo he cooks on the stage while playing. Everyone gets to share in the goodness at the end of the night. He has gone on to establish a charity called Planet Gumbo to play shelters and feed the homeless. Good stuff.

Over the years, I would follow his blog and get his newsletters. A travelogue of places played, good eats, and recipes to try at home. About once, maybe twice a year he would come up out of Florida and play somewhere near where I was living, but for a variety of reasons I was never able to get to a live show until last night.

What a blast: Recordings don’t do him justice. Amazing guitar player and showman. He’s in a one man band setting now, so equally impressive is his percussion work. I spent most of the night with a big smile on my face, just rolling with the blues.

And what a gracious man off the stage as well, as he made the rounds thanking everyone for coming, posed for pictures and signed merch.

I wish my Dad, himself a guitarist, could have been there to appreciate him. It’s his fault I’m into this kind of music. As it was, he was studying the pictures I sent him and asking about playing style. He’s moving to Florida in the spring, so I gave him the same advice I’ll give you. If you have a chance to see the Sauce Boss: Do.
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    Chris has been involved with big band, jazz and dance bands for over 30 years in central and southeastern Pennsylvania, the Washington DC metro region and the four-state area of Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia. A multi-instrumentalist, Chris has also performed in symphonic bands, brass quintets, orchestras and pit orchestras. He has served as a featured vocalist with the Swing Fever Dance Band and Brooks Tegler Big Band. Chris served as president of the Swing Fever Dance Band in 2002 and was a founding member of the Sound Advice Big Band. Chris is open to all opportunities and genres of music, and is happy playing any book in a section.

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    WITH THE SWING FEVER DANCE BAND
    ​Instruments: Trombone, trumpet, vocals, valve trombone, superbone, flugelhorn, mellophone and euphonium.

    Interests/Experience: Big Band, Dance Band, Lab Band, Small Group Jazz, Swing, Trad/Hot Jazz, Western Swing, Great American Songbook, Barbershop, Harmony Groups, Rock, R&B, Soul, Funk, Country, Eclectic, Symphonic Bands, Orchestras, Pit Orchestra

    Selected venues and events: 
    • Sunnybrook Ballroom, Pottstown, PA
    • Long’s Park, Lancaster, PA
    • Pat Garrett Amphitheater, Strausstown, PA
    • Mid-Atlantic Air Museum World War II Weekend, Reading, PA
    • Olympian Ballroom, West Reading, PA
    • SS John Brown/Project Liberty Ship
    • MS Sovereign of the Seas, Royal Caribbean
    • Spanish Ballroom Glen Echo Park, Glen Echo, MD
    • Blues Alley, Washington, DC
    • Weinberg Center for the Arts, Frederick, MD
    • Carter Barron Amphitheatre, Washington, DC
    • George Washington Hotel, Winchester, VA
    • National World War II Reunion on the Mall, May 27-30, 2004
    • Apollo Civic Theatre, Martinsburg, WV
    • The Old Opera House, Charles Town, WV

    Jazz Ensembles:
    • Sound Advice Big Band – Trumpet, Trombone and co-director
    • Swing Fever Dance Band – Trumpet, Trombone and Vocals
    • The Let’s Dance Orchestra – Trumpet and Trombone
    • The Brooks Tegler Big Band – Trumpet, Trombone and Vocals
    • For Dancers Only – Trombone
    • Swingin' Harmony - Trombone
    • Yesterday Swing Orchestra - Trombone
    • The Jordan English Jazz Orchestra– Trombone
    • Brass Impact brass quintet - Trombone

    Recordings: Swing Fever Dance Band: Something to Swing About: 20 Years of Swing Fever
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