Music Style Blues, Jazz, Boogie, Swing

Musical Influences Jimmy Rogers, Professor Longhair, Big Joe Turner, Duke Ellington

Similar Artists Nobody sounds like Jr. Basco!

Artist History Payin' my dues..that's what I've been doing... for a pretty long time too... I started my musical odyssy in the late 50's... I was a drummer then... the drums being the loudest (or the lout-est) instrument in the band, I naturally gravitated to that method of musical expression... I was about 14 years old, doing my best to uphold the standard set by Gene Krupa, the crème-de-la-crème of drummers of the era and before... I played in Frenchy's Circle R Dance Band at boozy Saturday night slug-fests in the Grange Halls of Northern California's Mendocino Coast. Frenchy's requirement that he band wear cactus-flowered cowboy shirts propelled me to seek musical fulfillment in some other setting. In the 60's, I came into contact with the blues... I was really smitten by the music of Jimmy Rogers, a white tubercular singer-songwriter of the late 20's and early 30's who incorporated the guitar licks and vocal styles of the black blues singers he'd met around the hobo jungles and railroad yards of the Mississippi delta. I learned every song he ever sang. Armed with some authentic "licks", I plied the trade in coffee house on Upper Grant Street in San Francisco and New York's Greenwich Village. After over-dosing on Café' au lait, I split for the big enchilada... L.A. That was an eye-opener... I got together with some guys and a gal…we called ourselves the Burbank Blues Band and played some gigs around the San Fernando Valley and Hollywood. During this period, I started writing more complex themes, both lyrically and musically. To help with my musical matriculation, I started hanging around the musicians union rehearsal hall on Vine Street, digging the sax players, piano men and musicians of every stripe practicing and playing the music of America's musical greats. My favorites turned out to be boogie-woogie guys like Professor Longhair, Big Joe Turner, Louis Jordan, and of course the late, great Duke Ellington. Since 1990, I've been here in the Denver area doing the club scene... I'm fortunate to be playing with the guys that make up the hotter-than holy-hell all-star band... they're all on my CD, "Steppin' Out With Junior Basco"... I hope you dig it... if you like, send me an e-mail…let me know what you think…in the meantime, keep on rockin'... Junior Basco.

Instruments Guitar, Keyboard, Bass, Drums, Saxaphone, Trumpet, Trombone, Flute

Albums Steppin' Out with Junior Basco

Location Longmont, CO - USA

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