Boulder Outlook Hotel & Suites

Johnny Rawls
Singer, songwriter, guitarist, arranger and producer Johnny Rawls draws on the 1950s' and '60s' deep soul-blues tradition in his guitar playing, yet his lyrics and singing are completely 1990s. Rawls got his early musical education from his grandfather, John Paul Newson, a blind guitarist who played around the Hattiesburg area....

Levee Town

Johnny O.
Johnny O. started his career as a freestyle artist, playing the kind of music that was popular in Latin clubs but never quite in the mainstream. Johnny O. still had a successful career in this circuit, releasing eight albums before 2001, when he released his greatest-hits album....

Mark Diamond
Mark's hard-grooving acoustic bass sound was birthed in the New York area, where he learned to play many musical styles. His professional career started in New Jersey in the mid "70's". In 1980 he moved to Colorado with the band Arabesque, and has since been a sought after sideman on over 100 albums, including Grammy award winner Tim O'Brien, Tim and Mollie O'Brien, Sally Taylor, (daughter of James and Carly), James Van Buren with Richie Cole, Keith Oxman, Mary Flower, and Mary Ann Moore....

Big Swing Trio
The name Big Swing Trio implies small-group swing; in other words, the sort of small groups that Benny Goodman, Fats Waller, Coleman Hawkins, Art Tatum, and others led during jazz's swing era (roughly 1935-1945, give or take a few years)....