Jazz + Funk

11 MP3 Songs
JAZZ: Acid Jazz, JAZZ: Jazz Fusion



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Sauce

Sauce is a danceable Jazz + Funk fusion band of five sophisticated young musicians from Wilmington, Delaware. Their original compositions draw on influences from hard bop to The Dead â with a nod to the Nickelodeon theme music on which they were weaned â but Herbie Hancock, Fred Wesley, John Scofield, Soulive and Greyboy Allstars are the main ingredients that Sauce cooks. Not your local neighborhood garage band, this (mostly) instrumental group has a following in the sub-commercial youth music scene in the Delaware Valley. Kids donât stand still when Sauce plays, and twenty-to-thirty something oldsters exclaim: those boys are good! If your dancing shoes are nearby, give the amazing demo a listen. This accessible jazz is of interest..

The Musicians

Henry Bellingham, a recent graduate of Cab Calloway School of the Arts, started playing the guitar at age nine. He is currently a jazz guitar performance major at the Community College of Philadelphia. Henry also plays piano and is an alumnus of the Wilmington Youth Jazz Band. He was awarded the Robert Boysie Lowery Scholarship by the Council of Jazz Advocates. He plays guitar, piano and sings in Sauce.

Sam Bellingham is a junior at Cab Calloway School of the Arts, where he plays in the Jazz Band. He has been playing the guitar for five years and also plays piano. He is a member of the Wilmington Youth Jazz Band. He plays guitar, piano and synthesizer in Sauce.

Brian Bruce has been drumming for ten years, and also plays piano. A junior at Cab Calloway School of the Arts, he plays in the Jazz Band and spends his summers at the Berklee School of Music in Boston and the Governorâs Program at the University Delaware. He is also a member of the Wilmington Youth Jazz Band. He plays drums in Sauce.

Vernon James is also a junior at Cab Calloway School of the Arts. He has been playing the saxophone for tens years. Vernon is a member of the Cab Calloway Jazz Band and the Wilmington Youth Jazz Band. Vernonâs father, Vernon James, Sr., performed with the Charles Sullivan Big Band, Frank Foster Big Band, Jazz Mobile Big Band, Bernard Purdie, Gil Scott-Heron, Ozzie Davis and Ruby Dee. Vernon plays baritone and tenor sax in Sauce.

Sam Nobles is a junior at The Charter School of Wilmington, a math and science school that shares a campus with the Cab Calloway School of the Arts. He plays in the Cab Jazz Band. He has been playing piano for tens years and bass guitar for four. His father, Steve Nobles, is a singer-songwriter who plays throughout the mid-Atlantic. Sam plays fretless bass in Sauce.

CALL SAUCE 302-764-0428
or visit www.myspace.com-thesaucede.url .