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BLUES/JAZZ MUSIC
PATRICK HAZELL
The Des Moines Register calls PATRICK HAZELL "a legend in
Iowa Music". Teaching himself to play boogie-woogie piano
in 1956, Hazell was soon performing at school functions. In 1968,
he formed the MOTHER BLUES BAND. Touring an eight-state, Mid-western
area until late 1982, the band earned an award-winning and even
mythical reputation. Hazell then launched his solo career singing
his original songs while playing keyboards, harmonica, and percussion
at the same time. An official endorsee of the Hohner Company's
world-famous harmonicas, he is known for an original style which
reflects jazz, blues, country, zydeco/Cajun, classical, and folk/world
music. An inductee into both the IOWA BLUES HALL OF FAME (2000)
and the IOWA MUSIC ASSOCIATION ROCK N ROLL HALL OF FAME (2007),
as of 2007, he has produced and recorded 36 albums of his original
music. A unique soloist, he can fill a large hall with up-tempo
dance music, or play intimate settings. Since 1986, Hazell expanded
his tour area to include many tours in Europe, Russia, and South
America. Writing for the Heartland Journal, Chicago, Tim Janes
stated "....HAZELL's music is the music of America's heartland."