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Try before you buy! Listen to our music and feel free to visit our website and play 5 track from the CD. Thanks for your support!
The Red Hot Blazers had an awesome experience recording our debut album "RED HOT" with 3 JUNO award winners and appreciate all the support and guidance. We had a lot of fun in the studio and you will feel the high energy and creative spirit throughout in our music.
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THE RED HOT BLAZERS - "RED HOT ROCKIN' RHYTHM & BLUES" with infectiously Funky grooves that straddle the line where Rhythm & Blues meet Rock with exuberance that's impossible to resist!***
***The Blazers – Red Hot - Torontonians Pete Cohan, Josh Gordon, Andrew Taylor and Chris Craig previously known as The Jukes are The Blazers. Rhythm and blues, high energy, high level are just a few of the phrases that can describe them. Guests such as Al Lerman and Jack DeKeyzer on this album certainly bring in dynamics that are superb. The Blazers kick butt on songs like I Love You, Eternally and Flavour of the Year. Their diversity of funk, swing, rocking blues with smatterings of harp and sax make this an album you’ll want in your collection! – EB-Bluesday CKUW
Eleanor Reimer aka E.B. Bluesday CKUW 95.9FM Tuesdays 8 to 11 pm
www.ckuw.ca CD Review (Aug 10, 2010)
***The Blazers – Red Hot CD review - Excellent album coming from The Blazers, leaded by the faultless Pete Cohan’s voice, who, as usual, shows amazing vocal conditions. The rest of the band are Josh Gordon on guitar, Andrew Taylor on bass and Chris Craig on drums, You will also find three deluxe guest musicians, organ and piano player David McMorrow, together with two winners of reputed Canadian JUNO Awards, guitar player Jack de Keyzer and singer, harmonica and sax player Al Lerman. All them do a remarkable work that will be greatly appreciated and valued by aficionados. A bright selection of songs, full of a powerful intensity and joy, perfect to dance, on a splendid mixture of the best rock ‘n’ roll, swing, funky, groove and tons of ‘rockin’ rhythm & blues’ is what you will find along the whole cd. The Blazers are a flamboyant explosive band with clear ideas of what they want to do, who are gradually reaching a great popularity among Canadian audience, specially in Toronto area where they basically move and regularly play. Taverns, clubs, pizza-diners, barbecue grills, theatre halls and other venues and festivals are the normal places to find them live showing what they are able to do. GREAT.
Vicente Zumel - La Hora del Blues - 96.6 Barcelona FM - Spain (May 30, 2010)
***The Blazers – Red Hot CD review - Alligator Records, Chicago, Illinois - Bruce Iglauer, President of Alligator http://www.alligator.com
*4 Song Review from the album - RED HOT- Alligator Records is the largest independent blues label in the world with a catalog of over 200 titles. Its recordings have won more awards than any other contemporary blues label, including a total of 34 Grammy© nominations (two wins), 18 Indie Awards from the Association For Independent Music (AFIM) and three Grand Prix du Disque awards. Alligator and its artists have won a total of 70 W.C. Handy Blues Awards, the blues community’s highest honor.
*Never Gonna Cry Again* -- as the bluesiest song so far, this is hitting me by far the best. Everyone is taking his time, there is good interplay between the instruments, the harp has fat tone, the vocal is telling the story and has good pitches. the guitar solos and the harp all take there time. The rhythm section is very solid and the drummer is offering some accents and fills that help the song. Well done, sir.
*Blind Sided* -- another energetic rocking blues. A tight performance, well done. Good harp (I like the harp player quite alot) with a nice sense of melody and phrasing. The busier guitar works ok here because of the energy level of the overall song.
*Coming Home* -- this rocks pretty hard. Lyrically pretty familiar turf, but I like the energy and aggressive attitude.
*I Love You Enernally* -- this has almost a 50's vocal vibe, with that sort of Elvis-style vibrato. The sax works here, and the song is kind of fun...well performed.
Bruce Iglauer - Alligator Records - Chicago, Illinois (Mar 24, 2010)
***The Blazers – Red Hot CD review - Toronto Blues Society - This group of veteran players have been working together for six years (they were previously known as The Jukes) and they style their music as “kick ass rockin’ blues”. Pete Cohan is the singer; Josh Gordan’s on guitar, Chris Craig is on drums and Andrew Taylor plays bass. They have some famous friends: Jack de Keyzer produced this disc and added guitar on 5 songs, Al Lerman guests on harp & sax throughout, David McMorrow guests on keys and Alec Fraser recorded the proceedings. With good material, this is a guaranteed recipe for success in my opinion. They have the material, much of it written by Cohan & Gordon. Cohan is a very good singer, switching easily from the rocking blues of “Flavour of the Year” to the soul sound of “I Love You, Eternally” to the slow blues “Never Gonna Cry Again” or the funky, Stones-ish “Wake Up”. “The King’s Highway” is their contribution to road songs and it’s a very good one. It should get everyone up dancing and yelling when their town comes up. Nice harp from Lerman. “Flavour of the Year” & “Wake Up” are other highlights. There are a couple of CD Release Parties: Timothy’s Pub at 344 Brown’s Line in Etobicoke on October 10th and at The Harp & Crown, in Pickering at 300 Kingston Road on Saturday, October 17th. Find out more at www.theblazers.net John Valenteyn - Toronto Blues Society – CD Review (Oct 4, 2009) TBS (OCT 2009)
***The Blazers CD review - "High level band with a huge experience along Canadian Blues circles. They fluently perform an excellent effective mixture of blues, rhythm and blues, funk, swing, rockabilly and rock...The arrangements of the original covers have got great quality with a cool lush sound...a solid band with a powerful guitar sound and an delightful daring vibrato. Josh Gordon guitar solos have a personal stamp with very close Texan references which give them a straight charisma, something not very usual among many actual guitar players. Toronto musical scene can be proud of that excellent band. ***LA HORA BLUES (Jul, 2007)***
***The Blazers – Red Hot CD review - "Really good guitar work...One of your better vocals with some nice vibrato. Good intensity.”****- Bruce Iglauer, President of Alligator Records in Chicago, IL (July 2006)
***The Blazers – Live show review - "Unfamiliar with the band and their music, I had no idea what lay ahead. The boys blew me away! Turns out, they are another immensely talented compilation of Toronto area musicians forming a one of a kind blend of rockin’ blues band.""Sets consisting of kick-ass originals flowed fluently with their fiery, soulful deliverance of traditional blues and classic rock covers. Original rockin’ blues reminded me of the unique musical blend of none other that Jack de Keyzer. Not bad for a relatively youthful, new band. What really catches one’s eye is the amazing chemistry these four musicians possess creating an electrifying energy that reaches the depths of one's heart and soul." Diane Goldsmith ***- P.A. Blue Star Records (Jun, 2006)***
Members of the band have shared the stage with JUNO Award, Maple Blues Award, ECMA Award, and/or Indie Award winners and nominees such as JUNO winner Jack de Keyzer, James Gray (www.BlueRodeo.com) JUNO winner Al Lerman (www.Fathead.biz), Michael Fonfara (keyboards for Foreigner’s album “4” and www.Downchild.com), Travis Colby (www.Roomful.com of Blues), JUNO Nominee Rod Phillips, Frank Cosentino, Gary Kendall (www.Downchild.com), Garth Vogan (Chuck Jackson’s Allstars), Guenther Kapelle (www.WildT.ca & The Spirit), The Johnny Max band, Johnny Pennino, Steve Grisbrook, The Meteors, Mark 'Bird' Stafford, Bill 'Mojo Willie' Rymer, Martin Aucoin, Bobby Lonero and members have opened for David Wilcox, Jeff Healey and Wild T & The Spirit and played with many more great professional musicians.
Band Member bio's - http://www.theblazers.net/bio.html
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