David Maxwell

Pianist David Maxwell is a area of the Boston blues picture like a sideman because the past due 1960s, but offers only within the ’90s begun leading his own music group and saving under his own name. Maxwell required a few of his early stylistic cues from famous brands Spann, Sunnyland Slim and Pinetop Perkins, also hearing the recordings of Big Maceo, Ray Charles and Memphis Slim; he became friendly with Muddy Waters’ longtime piano participant, Otis Spann, in the past due 1960s. Maxwell continued to back again many great players over time, including Freddie Ruler, whom he caused for just two years in the first 1970s; Bonnie Raitt, whom he caused in 1974 and ’75, while she was still located in Boston; and Wayne Natural cotton from 1977 to 1979. He toured European countries and Japan with Otis Hurry within the 1990s, and it has performed over time with a large number of others, including John Lee Hooker, Jimmy Rogers, Paul Oscher, Hubert Sumlin, Bob Margolin, John Primer and Ronnie Earl. He offers joined several same people on the studio attempts, including Natural cotton for his 1997 Grammy-winning Deep within the Blues. Maxwell can also be heard around the soundtrack towards the film Fried Green Tomato vegetables with longtime Boston music artists Ronnie Earl and Peter Wolf. Maxwell’s debut record for Tone-Cool, Optimum Blues Piano, is really a assortment of instrumental music that showcase lots of the Boston scene’s veteran players: Ronnie Earl and Duke Levine on guitars, Kaz Kazanoff and Gordon Beadle on saxophones, drummer Marty Richards and bassist Marty Ballou. Echoes of most of his affects can be noticed throughout the songs, including Pete Johnson on “Down in a.J.’s Place,” and Otis Spann on “Deep INVOLVED WITH IT.”