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rizorkestra - music artist

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"..keepin' music real down-home for y'all.."

Location: los angeles, California
Country: United States United States
Last Login: Jun 28, 2008 (7 days back)
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About Me



rizorkestra youtube

"...keepin' music real down-home for y'all..." live in santa cruz

riz plays jazz vibraphone

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 2/19/2005
Band Website: youtube.com/rizorkestra
Band Members:
Influences: rizorkestra roots-music-family world map

some wonderful record labels:

smithsonian folkways
dust-to-digital
arhoolie
rounder
shanachie
yazoo
nonesuch
deutsche gramophone
jsp
okeh
black swan
paramount
columbia
chess
jvc
document
revenant
blue note
delmark
stax/volt
vanguard
library of congress
ocora...

...and some wonderful musicians:

blind blake
scrapper blackwell
ramblin' thomas
robert johnson
dock boggs
casey bill weldon
joseph spence
b.b.& group (prison songs)
norfolk jubilee quartet
bascom lamar lunsford
sister cally fancy
charlie patton
uncle dave macon
luther magby
blind willie johnson
empire jubilee quartet
masked marvel
blind lemon jefferson
coley jones
geeshie wiley
"22"
kokomo arnold
son house
jim jackson
lonnie johnson
eddie lang
jaybird coleman
tampa red
frank palmes
bessie smith
c.b. & axe gang
a.a.gray
big bill broonzy
elders mcintorsh & edwards sanctified singers
memphis jug band
gus cannon
golden gate quartet
sleepy john estes
lil mcclintock
leadbelly
dinwiddie quartet
mattie may thomas
rev. j.m.gates
john lee hooker
rev. gary davis
mississippi john hurt
nehemiah skip james
sister mary nelson
jesse fuller
casey bill weldon
roosevelt graves
bo carter
furry lewis
jimpson
tommy settlers and his blue moaner
sister rosetta tharpe
josh white
texas alexander
the trumpeteers
georgia tom dorsey
brother claude ely
mound city blue blowers
sister o.m. terrell
bessie jones and the georgia sea island singers
roy smeck
washboard sam
louis armstrong
memphis slim
willie dixon
blind willie mctell
edward w. clayborn
alfred lewis
rev. a.w. nix
memphis sanctified singers
arizona dranes
nugrape twins
dorothy love coates
the blue chips
eddie head & his family
dock reed and vera hall ward
goldia jaynes
kokomo arnold
mahalia jackson
peter chatman
rev. sister mary nelson
bukka white
blind mamie forehand
willie newbern
cotton top mountain sanctified singers
henry thomas
ed & lonnie young
empire jubilee quartet
otto virgall
rosie hibler & family
john lee "sonny boy" williamson
t.c.i. women's four
arthur "big boy" crudup
prof. johnson & his gospel singers
henry spaulding
laura henton
sol hoopii
taskiana four
charlie pool
rev. anderson johnson
richard "rabbit" brown
the famous blue jay singers
henry thomas
jimmie strothers
elder david ross
sonny terry
jesse "babyface" thomas
ramblin' thomas...

and, also....some modern wonderful musicians:

chet atkins
taj mahal
ry cooder
bob wills
aretha franklin's gospel singing
ali farka toure
blind boys of alabama
cephas & wiggins
leon redbone
robert randolph & the family band
sonny rollins
jimi hendrix ...

Sounds Like: one-man-folk-roots-blues-band

guitar, dobro, vocal, fife, kazoo, with hi-hat and bass drum playing simultaneously. repertoire consists of early blues songs, jug band tunes, gospel music classics, instrumental stomps, romps, jumps, and rags, early country music, early jazz, tin pan alley tunes, folk songs and novelty songs, with the additional insertion of themes and motifs from sousa marches, european classical music composers, musical theater and film music, in original compositions and improvisations.

and...
everyone's welcome in the
open invitiational "rizorkestra volunteer chorus"
drop by...bring yer singin' voice!
Record Label: unstrictly roots
Type of Label: Indie

My Background and Lifestyle

Occupation: Music Artist (Roots Music / Folk / Blues)

My Pictures

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My Blog

rizorkestra review - by dirk wissbaum/bluessource.com

rizorkestraamerican guitar Having never heard of this artist, I was certainly surprised to hear this new CD, and even more taken by the material on the disc. He has poignantly set out on th...
Posted by rizorkestra one-man-folk-roots-blues-band on Wed, 21 Nov 2007 07:09:00 PST

oracles of music review

rizorkestra - "american guitar"every once in awhile, this constant kick in the balls thing we call life presents us with a nice and very less painful surprise. such a surprise occurred for me recently...
Posted by rizorkestra one-man-folk-roots-blues-band on Wed, 31 Oct 2007 07:53:00 PST

bluesbunny review

rizorkestraamerican guitarunstrictly roots UR0022007the one-man band is something you seldom see or hear these days. for all it mattered, the very notion could have faded into history, to be revived o...
Posted by rizorkestra one-man-folk-roots-blues-band on Wed, 31 Oct 2007 07:39:00 PST

comment ghetto

hey now! got a note from someone about commenting, and made a reply....i felt like i touched on some points of interest and so offer the letter to everyone. it's kinda long, but i think it's pretty go...
Posted by rizorkestra one-man-folk-roots-blues-band on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 02:44:00 PST

rizorkestra interview : long beach district weekly

rizorkestra gonna live the life he sings about in his songsby CHRIS ZIEGLERjune 27th 2007W.C. Handy called it "the weirdest music I ever heard," and if that isn't the first thing ever thought about th...
Posted by rizorkestra one-man-folk-roots-blues-band on Thu, 05 Jul 2007 11:06:00 PST

rizorkestra one-man-roots-blues-band

...guitar, dobro, vocal, fife, kazoo, with hihat and bassdrum going simultaneously, playing selections of early blues, jug band tunes, gospel classics, instrumental stomps, romps, jumps, and rags, old...
Posted by rizorkestra one-man-folk-roots-blues-band on Mon, 11 Jun 2007 09:06:00 PST

blues at julliard - "autobiography of miles davis" quote from chapter 3

"...I remember one day being in a music history class and a white woman was the teacher. She was up in front of the class saying that the reason black people played the blues was because they were poo...
Posted by rizorkestra one-man-folk-roots-blues-band on Thu, 31 May 2007 07:27:00 PST

captain beefheart's ten commandments of guitar playing

>> >>1. LISTEN TO THE BIRDS >> >> That's where all the music comes from. Birds >> know everything about how it should sound and >> where that sound should come from. And watch >> hummi...
Posted by rizorkestra one-man-folk-roots-blues-band on Thu, 17 May 2007 09:45:00 PST

miles of miles @ 7 dudley cinema review for LA Record by riz orkestra (RO)

MILES OF MILES @ 7 DUDLEY CINEMAFebruary 7th, 2007WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7: Miles Davis: yes or no? If you don't answer 'yes,' no problem. I'll talk to you later. If you do answer 'yes,' meet Ken Kuberni...
Posted by rizorkestra one-man-folk-roots-blues-band on Mon, 09 Apr 2007 09:13:00 PST

40 bands / 80 minutes review for LA Record by riz orkestra (RO)

FRIDAY, MARCH 30: If it weren't for my freaky musician friends I'd have dried up into a goddamn mummy at 16. Enter Sean Carnage, East Coast expatriate hellbent on making sure you know exactly who your...
Posted by rizorkestra one-man-folk-roots-blues-band on Mon, 09 Apr 2007 08:47:00 PST

My Friends

The Blues Archives, charley patton, Blind Blake, Unstrictly Roots, Chris Murray, VINYL, onemanbands, Freddie King, vic ruggiero, Jeff Jensen Band, Kan Zaman, Adam Novicki, Jeffery Beach, Peter Nevins, HAMADA Takasi, ★矢野忠★, Hiroko Ara, Bessie Smith, Liu Fang 劉芳, Iordanis Tsomidis, ELIAS ELISSEOS, Sahba Motallebi, SALIM FERGANI, Gu-Zheng Ensemble of Montreal, pianocircus, J Shogren, The Southern California Steel Guitar Association, Alekos K. Vretos, Andrey Vinogradov (Russian hurdy-gurdy tunes), Craig Ventresco and Meredith Axelrod, Prewar Blues, Pre-War Blues, Canray Fontenot Memorial Page (R.I.P. 1922-1995), TARAB ORKESTAR, Choinure Boys, h-hattori, MISSISSIPPI ALLIGATORS, FSH california street team, Welcome Cafe, Les-a-lee, G-R-R Booking the West Coast..., The Dirty Rotten Scumbag - One Man Band, * Arainia *, Wrong Again, Mike Press, zzup comanche and friends, bdboozE, West Of Oregon, HONKY TONES, Hank Ray, Bill, JKreutzer Artworks, Jacqueline Telford, Terry Stephenson songwriter, Electric Hippies, dori, sam j, UAR Promotions, - Tyo Bazz -, On the Off Beat, MEANWHILE back at the .....RANCH....., One World, Lisa Button, DAZE IS FREE!!!, Lindsay, Irene, Jodi Siegel, the JOE CORSO BAND, Dobbin Buck, Suzanne, the blues of the hills, jayme, MANIC DIFFUSION, Bex Marshall, Redwind.., endoxi, and the Artist of the Day is..., Toma Fetermix, Navah, Jukebox Gypsy, MeLLy, Sweet Hollywaiians, Big Daddy Blues, Yaz Fentazi, The Haxaw Ditch Dwellers

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