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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. He has toured extensively in the Midwest region of the
United States, and since 1986, has toured regularly in Europe,
South America, and Russia. 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. Writing for Chicago's Heartland
Journal, Tim Janes stated "....HAZELL's music is the music
of America's heartland."