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blue number nine
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Out of 18 votes - Similar Artists: Brand New Heavies, Rickie Lee Jones
Out of 18 votes
- Genre: R&B/Soul » Blue-Eyed Soul
Editor's review
Keeping a nonet tight is always an exercise in organization. When its members have backgrounds ranging from Motown to Latin jazz, it seems that chaos is inevitable. But blue number nine never lose the thread, tying jammy combo interplay to smooth, soul-based lead vocals.
Biography
If Ian Anderson and George Clinton were one guy with a sex change and sounded like Rickie Lee Jones with a funky, jazzy rockin' band, you'd get blue number nine. With members hailing originally from Japan, Italy, South Africa, and around the U.S., one might say that blue number nine resembles the United Nations. But New Jersey-based Stefanie Seskin felt this gave the band an identity when she started it in 1995. Each member's roots could not help but give the music a worldly flavor, one combining funk with Latin jazz, R & B, rock, pop and early Motown. Seskin, the lead singer, songwriter and flute player of blue number nine, fronts the band that has been likened to a "tornado on stage" and one that seems to bring a party wherever they go.
