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| The Rolling Stones Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings in Vilnius  The bass player of “the World's Greatest Rock & Roll Band” the Rolling Stones Bill Wyman and his all-stars Rhythm Kings will perform in Vilnius Ice Palace on the 7th of October, 2005. Bill Wyman‘s Rhythm Kings and their special guest soul legend Eddie “Knock on Wood” Floyd will perform “Rockin’ the Roots”, a lengthy set of rock & roll, rockabilly, boogie-woogie and rhythm & blues standards and originals.“As a member of the Rolling Stones for three decades, Bill Wyman established himself among the greatest bassists in rock & roll history; in tandem with drummer Charlie Watts, he belonged to one of the most stalwart rhythm sections in popular music, perfectly complementing the theatrics of Mick Jagger and the gritty guitar leads of Keith Richards.” (Jason Ankeny, allmusic.com) After more than 30 years with the Stones, Bill Wyman left the band in 1993 to allot more time to other projects he was interested in. He developed Sticky Fingers restaurants business, wrote books, worked on archeology and photography projects. Few years later he returned to music and with a couple of friends started his famous long-term Bill Wyman‘s Rhythm Kings project. The concert of Bill Wyman‘s Rhythm Kings will become the part of the 18th Vilnius jazz festival, which is traditionally devoted to conceptual, experimental music. This year the organizers of the festival decided to vary its program with some joyful and danceable concert. Rhythm Kings weren’t chosen accidentally. All musicians in the band are brilliant performers playing roots music, which is very close to both jazz and rock. Highest quality live rock music should be quite entertaining for jazz audience and hopefully will become an alternative to synthetic pop and R&B flooding the stages of the biggest jazz festivals. Some of the most prominent rock musicians like Eric Clapton, Mark Knopfler, Peter Frampton, Gary Brooker and Georgie Fame were the members of Rhythm Kings or played on their albums over the last decade. Bill Wyman‘s Rhythm Kings line-up for Vilnius concert will feature 3 extraordinary guitarists - Wyman‘s co-composer Terry Taylor, one of the world’s best rockabilly stylists Albert Lee and the member of Eric Clapton’s band Andy Fairweather-Low. There’ll be Graham Brad from Roger Waters’s band on drums, Nick Payn and Frank Mead on saxophones and harps, Chris Stainton from Spooky Tooth on keyboards plus young and gifted lady singer Beverly Skeete. And last but not least, legendary “rolling stone” Bill Wyman on bass. The concert will be in two sets, the gates open at 8 PM., show starts at 9 PM. Tickets are available through Bilietai.lt ticket service. write your comments about the article :: © 2005 Jazz News :: home page |