PUGSLEY BUZZARD

http://www.pugsleybuzzard.com/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8hh4ZHcJIc

ALBERT PARK YACHT CLUB PORT LOUNGE FRIDAY NOVEMBER 19TH 2010
AQUATIC DRIVE ALBERT PARK LAKE (NEXT TO THE POINT RESTAURANT)
COST $20/$15 CASH AT DOOR. DOORS OPEN 7:30PM
COST INCLUDES MELBOURNE’S BEST TURKISH BREAD & DIPS BEFORE SHOW AND HOT PARTY FINGER FOOD IN INTERVAL. DRINKS FROM BAR AT BAR PRICES.

BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL taxman@bigpond.net.au or 03 96901233 BH
 

Think Satchmo with a piano. This will be highly entertaining – take my word for it.

Pugsley Buzzard, piano player and singer with a distinctive sound plays funky New Orleans grooves, barrelhouse blues Harlem stride and modern stylings that feature loads of tantalising improvisations. Pugsley’s shows are exciting and captivating at the centre is his huge mesmerizing voice and dazzling piano playing delivered with a vaudevillian nuance and humour. Pugsley describes himself as “a grizzly bear in a porkpie hat rummaging through a piano.” A fascinating character of imposing stature with a rich and raspy blues drenched baritone voice that can make the ladies sigh and and grown men cry. A bone shaking shaman howling the blues and an eccentric raconteur who never fails to entertain and delight his audiences. He has become a festival favourite performing at Jazz, Blues and Roots, Folk Festivals around Australia and overseas. Last year he appeared at the Adelaide Cabaret Festival with sell out performances of his cabaret show “Noir”, featuring tunes about vice, gangsters, broads and bordellos. He also thrilled audiences at the Himalayan Blues festival in Kathmandu last year. A total of 18 Festivals in 2009

Quotes / Pugsley Buzzard / Wooden Kimono CD  
” Who ever says they don`t write `em like they used to should take a listen to Pugsley Buzzard`s latest album Wooden Kimono. Buzzard is a bewitching songwriter and storyteller often combining groove laden or playful tunes with dark lyrics. Showing off his renowned blues – jazz piano style and infectious raspy vocals, Pugsley is complemented on this album by a top band of horns and down and dirty guitar, that makes for hot listening.” .
Megan Rowe
Rhythms Magazine
 

” There is something inexorable about the progress of that massive sand blasted voice and those rolling piano figures; something undeniable about the dark images crowding the lyrics; something dangerous about the snarling guitars, growling horns and clawing rhythms. ….. This is hearfelt music that can sweep you into its shady world, and have you flirting with a little good ol` fashioned evil, or smiling at the sly wit .”
John Shand – Author of Jazz – The Australian Accent and critic for the Sydney Morning Herald.
Liner Notes: Wooden Kimono
 
Bruce Elder`s review in SMH, June 12

” If there is a sure – fire formula for musical success, leading to lots of regular work and critical acclaim, it has to be New Orleans style piano playing mixed in with boogie and blues, that is both hot and cool, sensuous and intimate, raw and loads of fun.

Think only of Fats Domino, Fats Waller, Dr. John, Jon Cleary, Tom Waits and our own home grown performer with the unforgettable name, Pugsley Buzzard.

His technique is simple: a voice with all the smoothness of a corrugated dirt road leads to effortless, raw honesty; an exceptionally good and rich backing band; a bunch of songs that range from ” Aces and Eights” , lazy, piano based blues with a dash of soul, through ” Chained”, powerhouse New Orleans- style blues that wouldn`t be out of place in the repertoire of the late Howlin` Wolf to the dark, smoky menace of ” Black Dog”, with some wailing, fat baritone saxophone from Adam Simmons. The result is an album that is deeply rooted in African – American musical traditions and still sounds fresh and original.

The most impressive aspect of this very impressive album is that not for a moment do you feel that Buzzard is an imitator or an imposter. This is so authentic and persuasive that if you were told he arrived in the country last week after a residency in some steamy New Orleans club, you`d believe it. He is that good.”

“Without doubt the most unique voice in Australia right now!
Prepare to weep tears of joy ”
Phil O` Neil ( Ugly Phil ) Announcer Triple M radio.
 
” This album is a new classic and should establish Pugsley Buzzard as an international influence. Triumphant.”
John Carver / radio presenter / PBS radio in Melb.
 
” A steamy odyssey of sound where voodoo and delta blues meets jazz ” PBW