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The RED HOT Blazers - "Rockin' Rhythm & Blues with infectiously Funky grooves that straddle the line where Red Hot Rock meets Rhythm & Blues with exuberance that's impossible to resist!"
Welcome :) Please feel free to roam the website. We have free song downloads in the MUSIC section, CD giveaways, videos, reviews, photos & more. We have 6 tracks lined up for you on the MUSIC PLAYER above - Use the controls to *FF *REV *PAUSE the songs. 4 original songs from the new CD RED HOT & 2 cover songs from Spencer Davis Group & Joe Cocker. Scroll down for LIVE VIDEO. Enjoy!
We'll keep you entertained and informed on parties, current events and future gigs! *Plus every month we randomly pick a new friend that has signed our guestbook & email then send them a *free* download card of our debut album...we appreciate your support! Free give aways @ our LIVE shows too, come join the party!
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***"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 www.lahoradelblues.com/criticas.htm
***"I give this CD, my highest rating, Five Stars * * * * * Excellent CD...Thoroughly enjoyed it...Highly Recommended" - Blues Underground Network - John Vermilyea http://www.bluesundergroundnetwork.com/The_Blazers_CD.html
***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." - Bruce Iglauer, President of Alligator Records, Chicago, Illinois http://www.alligator.com
***"The Blind Lemon Top 20 Canadian Blues CD's of 2009!" CHMR 93.5 FM THE BLAZERS - RED HOT CD comes in at #18
***"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." - Diane Goldsmith - P.A. Blue Star Records
Members of THE BLAZERS have a great deal of experience travelling the King’s Highway and playing live at festivals all over Ontario and in clubs around the Greater Toronto Area. Members of the band have shared the stage with JUNO Award, Maple Blues Award, ECMA Award, and/or Indie Award winners and nominees.
We 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. The band recorded and co-wrote with 3 JUNO AWARD winners :
Jack de Keyzer - Producer - played on 5 tracks with us.
Alec Fraser - Engineer (Bass player with Jeff Healey & David Wilcox) Produced 3 Juno award winning albums.
Al Lerman - Sax and Harmonica - leader of the 2 x Juno winning band FATHEAD.
David McMorrow - Piano/organ - played with Rough Trade and formed the band Berlin.
Go ahead and sign our guestbook, let us know what you think about our music, live shows and anything else you'd like to tell us. Thanks for your comments.
See you live!!! Thanks for all the support!!!
Charity Projects - The Blazers have donated their time playing live and on various CD's plus helping out the community with all proceeds going to charity. Members of the band have volunteered their time to raise money though charity events including : Sick Kids Hospital, Youthlink, Camp Bucko burn camp for kids, 911 Firefighter NYFD fund, Muscular Dystrophy, and Princess Margaret Hospital Cancer Research. FIRESOUND is an ongoing project started by more than 30 Toronto Firefighters. With the creation of the Burning Love CD and continuing live appearances, we have now raised over $20,000 for Muscular Dystrophy Canada, we tour the GTA raising even more money. Pete Cohan of THE BLAZERS is a Toronto Firefighter and has been a part of the FIRESOUND band and project since day one supporting the cause.