Wily Bo Walker & the Danny Flam Big Band

The 'Wily Bo Walker & The Danny Flam Big Band' album is a collection of tracks with a hard hitting brass section reflecting horn section styles from across the decades coloured with Wily Bo's own inimitable style and Danny Flam's musical direction. The Big Band instrumentals hark back to the Prima/Armstrong/Calloway era with 'The Openator', the sixties Vegas 'rat-pack' feel of 'Good Morning' and the seventies 'Big Band Fusion' stylings of 'Appointment In Sammara' and exploitation movie soundtrack groove of 'Jawbreaker'. Wily Bo also adds the New Orleans funeral marching band celebration of 'When The Angels Call Your Time', the hard rockin' brass blast of 'Drive' as well as the cinematic landscape of 'Same Thing' which also features Cenovia Cummins' String Quartet. There is the 'swing-noir' (think 'Sam Spade pulp fiction B-movie') of 'Rendez-Vous des Cheminots' featuring the vocal talents of Kareña K, the Gospel big band working of 'Long Way To Heaven' featuring The Brown Sisters of Chicago and the New York powerhouse funk of 'Irritated Shadow' featuring Amir Ben-Haim with Will Lee on Bass and Nir Z on drums. And, finally, the moody, bluesy, laid back feel of the instrumental version of Wily Bo's signature song 'Moon Over Indigo' featuring the amazing trumpet work of Kenny Rampton and Wily Bo's cover of Billie Holiday's 'You Don't Know What Love Is' featuring the stunning, last ever recording of jazz legend Teddy Charles. More about Wily Bo Walker: Wily Bo Walker is a solo artist, songwriter, composer and performer noted for his characterful vocals and swaggering 'live' performances. Renowned as being a diverse and prolific artist and hailing originally from Glasgow, Scotland, Wily Bo works across many styles and genres; blues, rock, soul, swamp, alternative, soundtrack and jazz Wily Bo Walker has released a trilogy of albums for 2015, the latest of which, ‘Moon Over Indigo’, sees him working once again with multiple Grammy Award winning musician and arranger, Danny Flam. Their previous collaboration 'Wily Bo Walker & The Danny Flam Big Band‘ (Nov 2013) received worldwide critical acclaim and was considered for a 2015 Grammy nomination ‘Moon Over Indigo’ released on 25th September 2015 on CD and downloadable from iTunes, Amazon etc The first release of his trilogy for 2015 was a mini-album by Wily Bo Walker & Kareña K entitled 'A Long Way From Heaven' (Jan 2015) with the second in the tryptich being ‘Stone Cold Beautiful’ (May 2015) with long-time friend and musical collaborator, E D Brayshaw. Both releases gained international airplay & good reviews! For 2016, Wily Bo Walker will again be releasing a trilogy of albums which will include 'Tales of The Mescal Canyon Troubadours'; an album of Wily Bo songs re-interpreted for his five piece bands’ style of guitar driven groovalicious, funkin’ blues and rock! More cinematic tales and drunken fables… Finally, watch out for his one-man swamp'n'stomp blues show 'Welcome to Voodooville' which Wily Bo Walker will be taking on the road in 2016 and a further album release for 2016 'Some People Kill for Passion: Welcome to Voodooville' Take the red pill: Welcome to Voodooville… Recent Achievements: Finalist in the 2015 British Blues awards and Runner-up in the ‘Blues Song’ category for his song ‘Long Way to Heaven’ 10 Charted tracks and 3 'CD's of the Week' within one year (2014-2015) in the European based Hit-Tracks Top 100 Top 40 placement for 8 consecutive months in the UK Independent Blues Association Playlist Charts 'Chattahoochee Coochee Man', a Wily Bo Walker & The Mescal Canyon Troubadours track featured on the Covermount CD: Issue 18 (Dec 2014) 'The Blues' magazine Nominated for Best Male Vocals in the 2014 British Blues Awards Rattlin Bone nominated for Best Band in the 2014 British Blues Awards 'When The Angels Call Your Time', a Wily Bo Walker original, featured on the Covermount CD: Issue 14 (July 2014) 'The Blues' magazine No 1 Blues, Jazz & Classic Rock artist in the US and Worldwide MySpace charts (Jan 2013)