There are six musicians coming together to form the B. Boss Jive Band that will perform Saturday night at the Kinsmen Community Complex.
Each musician has a connection to Kenny Blues Boss Wayne, and that's why manager Earl
Krushelnicki of the Underground Blues Network put them all together.
"Either they've played with Kenny Blues Boss Wayne, taken some workshops with him or play a favourite instrument of Kenny Wayne's," said
Krushelnicki.
This band is a bit different than most.
"The three key instruments for solos are piano, trumpet and saxophone," he pointed out. Most bands have a lead guitar player but the rhythm rounded out by drums and bass.
"We're taking songs that are guitar-based and transforming them to trumpet, sax or piano covers that used to be the guitar part and sure, that's unique - I don't think there's any other band that's doing that anywhere, quite frankly, other than big bands. There was a time when there was no electric guitars and that's music that you can jive to. Some people might consider that swing."
Simply put, this is a band you can dance to, he added. He cites George Thorogood's One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer as an example of how the band will go back to the original Amos Milburn's version, which is a blues, piano-based song.
The B. Boss Jive Band includes Nick Tindale on drums, Patrick Kilcullen on piano, Curtis Abriel on bass and vocals, Ali Henri on vocals, Thomas Nowak playing sax and Cam Bell tooting the trumpet.
"So our sound is different and fortunately we have six talented Prince George performers who have the ability to make these changes, basically, on the fly," said Krushelnicki. "It's quite amazing to me to see them at a practice, where they hear a song for the first time, and then after listening to it on YouTube a couple of times, they say, 'well, let's try this. Here's a high-pitched guitar solo - sounds like a trumpet to me, let's try it.' And it sounds pretty good to me."
Krushelnicki put the band together so he'd have music he could dance to, and he figures if he can dance to it, so can the rest of Prince George.
Doors open at 8 p.m. with the dance at 8:30 p.m. Tickets are $20 each at Books & Co., 1685 Third Ave.
