J.L. Stiles: Hobo Paradise

The band is a party waiting to happen, featuring the fingerpicking ragtime guitar, harmonica and vocals of JL Stiles with the insane trumpeting of Doug Ellington and Tom Griesser on clarinet/sax, all backed by Kurt Ribak on string bass and Erik Cruze on drums. Expect some phenomenal originals as well along with the blues mixed in with early jazz and swing. BIO Math & Blues JL Stiles is a unique animal who for the first time is bringing two totally diverse fields of truth-seeking together: ragtime blues and higher mathematics. Both of these disparate strands filtered through a lifetime on the run and on the search for a universal truth from psychedelic Brazilian forests to US college campuses and further into his own unique vision. JL Stiles has a mind that sees music in a similar way to how J.S. Bach saw music, however, Bach never played the blues. Fact # 1: JL Stiles is the John Nash of music. JL Stiles was born with hardwiring most only dream about, a brain that could look at the most basic picture and convert it to it's numerical basics. All through school in rural Connecticut it was clear where he was going to be, working at the cutting edge of mathematics, as he took to the abstract shapes and numbers as a duck would take to proverbial water, until, that is, a band wearing grease paint, Cuban heels, questionable body hair and several pints of fake blood rolled into JL's particular little town: Kiss. A 12 year old JL was hooked by the devils fishing rod that was rock and/or roll and when his brother brought home a terrible guitar from college and left it when he went back, JL had the tools to begin his assault on the world. He began fashioning songs using the simple chunking and melody of Jimmy Reed and sub-Rush lyrics about the challenging political world as seen by a 13-year old kid. Quick introductions to the lyrics of Bob Dylan, the power and message of The Who and the space-age ass funk of Parliament, shaped his musical balloon in new ways and JL, taking hi