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New Album Featuring Rolling Stones’ Ronnie Wood!
Courtesy
of Glass Onyon PR
Featuring guest appearances by guitar legends
Ronnie Wood, John Scofield and Mike Stern!
Las Vegas, NV – As a follow up to 2006’s ‘Orleans to
London’, guitarist Jimmy McIntosh
once again finds himself in illustrious company on his new album ‘Jimmy
McIntosh and…’ This collection of funk, rock, jazz and blues originals
showcases McIntosh’s considerable six-string prowess and features the Michigan
native exchanging incendiary licks with his personal guitar heroes John Scofield , Mike Stern and the Rolling
Stones’ Ronnie Wood.
The solid backbeats are supported by Toss Panos (drummer of choice for
guitarists Robben Ford and Mike Landau), bassists Dan Lutz, John Humphrey and
Keith Hubacher and New Orleans keyboardist Ivan Neville (of The Neville
Brothers, Keith Richards’ X-Pensive Winos and Dumpstaphunk). This stellar
outing was definitely a labor of love for McIntosh.
McIntosh recruited Scofield and Stern from his home base, Las Vegas.
Says Jimmy, “I got to know John and Mike about 12 years ago when there was a
Blue Note jazz club in Las Vegas and became good friends with both of them. The
Vegas Blue Note was short-lived, but I was there almost every night for the
duration of their gigs. I’ve jammed with Mike several times and asked him, ‘If
I make another record, will you play on it?’ And Mike said ‘sure’! Toss Panos,
John Humphrey and I went into Toss’s North Hollywood studio with Mike when he was
in Los Angeles playing with his band at Catalina’s. Mike’s playing on this
album is just brilliant. Then John happened to come through town with Phil Lesh
& Friends just a few months ago. I had mentioned to him that I was doing
this album and he said, ‘Hey, if you still have room on your CD, I’d love to
play on it.’ So that came to fruition as well. It was a dream come true for me
to create this CD with three major heroes of mine and who have also become very
good friends over the years.”
McIntosh’s friendship with Ronnie
Wood goes back to his solo debut, ‘Orleans
to London’. Jimmy recalls:
“I first met Ronnie backstage at a Stones show in Las Vegas. Ronnie and
Keith Richards were hanging out with Bobby Womack in the ‘Tuning Room’ were
they Jam to warm up before the show. Art Neville did me a huge favor and called
Jane Rose for me to meet Keith and Ronnie. It was a wedding gift as I got
married a week before (This was April 1999)”.
“Anyway a few years later I recorded my first CD ‘Orleans To London’ and
Art Neville, Ivan Neville, Cyril Neville and Mean Willie Green (Neville Bros
drummer) played on it. As I was near the end of the project in October 2004 I
got in touch with Ronnie Wood through his stepson (Jamie Wood) who was his
manager at the time and told him about my project. Three weeks later my wife
and I flew to London and went to Ronnie’s house in Richmond where he played on
5 tracks (first takes)”.
“Ronnie said, ‘I told Jeff Beck about your project and he might come by
to play’ – I was in shock! About 2 hours later Jeff showed up and ended up
playing on 3 tracks. Ronnie said as Jeff was recording, ‘You can’t believe how
lucky you are, he won’t play on anything!’ I’m not sure what Ronnie told him
about the Neville’s being on the record but it was amazing having both those
guys on the record. Jeff is credited as ‘Hot Rod’ on ‘Orleans To London’
because his manager wouldn’t let me use his name”.
“Ronnie and I hit it off fantastically and stayed in touch so when I
started a second record I was hoping he would play on it. I covered a tune from
Ronnie’s latest album called ‘I Gotta See’. Ronnie plays a great solo and outro
slide solo on the song. Ronnie and I also played two improvised Jams that open
and close the album like bookends. The Jams are just the two of us live in the
studio without the band. The Rolling Stones have been my favorite band since I
was a kid so getting to work and play with Ronnie is literally a dream come
true. Ronnie is truly a great artist".
“It’s amazing that all of the iconic records Ronnie has played on were
mostly first takes on his part. He is really underrated as a musician. I wrote
six originals for ‘Jimmy McIntosh and…’ Ronnie wrote one of the Jams ‘Fast
Blues’ and we share credit on the opener ‘Slow Blues’. I covered a few tunes… ‘I
Gotta See’ by Ronnie Wood, ‘Demon’ by Keith Richards, ’32 20 Blues’ by Robert
Johnson and ‘Sophisticated Lady’ by Duke Ellington”.
“Duke Ellington was a friend of my family when I was a little kid and
greatly encouraged my interest in music. When I played French Horn in the
Junior High School band I told my mom I was going to change something in the
music. She asked Mr Ellington if I should do that and he said, ‘I think you
have a musician there!’”.
“The record was recorded at Toss Panos studio in North Hollywood. Toss
is a great drummer I first heard with Michael Landau. John Humphrey (Scott
Henderson Trio) is on bass on most of the record. Keith Hubacher is on bass on
two tracks and Ivan Neville plays organ and Piano. Albert Wing who played with
Frank Zappa among others plays Tenor Sax on ‘I Gotta See’ and ‘Demon’, a Keith
Richards cover. Ronnie and Ivan are on both of my records which I’m very proud
of. It connects the two projects.”
Born on October 14, 1958 in Sao Paolo, Brazil, Jimmy McIntosh grew up in
the small town of Temperance, Michigan. After graduating from high school in
1976, Jimmy attended the Berklee College of Music for two years. Over the years
McIntosh has played with R&B singer Doris Troy, Billy Preston, Little
Anthony & The Imperials, and backed up Buddy Hackett and Ben Vereen, Since
1990, McIntosh has played regularly in the popular Lon Bronson All-Stars Band,
a powerhouse horn band.
The Lon Bronson band had a longstanding weekly residency at the Riviera,
where they entertained crowds ’til the wee hours and featured such special
guests sitting in as former Doobie Brothers guitarist and producer Jeff “Skunk”
Baxter, guitarist Joe Walsh, Members of TOP, comedian (and sometime trumpeter)
Drew Carey, bassist-magician-comedian Penn Jillette and former “Tonight Show”
guitarist, bandleader and Jay Leno sidekick Kevin Eubanks.
In 1999, following his longstanding engagement with the “Legends” show,
McIntosh moved to the Rio Hotel to perform in a show with pop stars Sheena
Easton and David Cassidy, then worked for the following two years in Cassidy’s
touring band. He has subsequently played with pianist-composer David Foster,
Donna Summer, Kenny Logins, Gloria Gaynor and played in musical theater
productions of “Mamma Mia” and “Jersey Boys.”
And now, after several years, Jimmy’s long awaited sophomore album is
now available! In closing Jimmy has this to impart, “My new album ‘Jimmy
McIntosh and…’ is a real labor of love and hope people enjoy it!”
To purchase ‘Jimmy McIntosh
and…’:
For more information you can visit Jimmy’s website at:
Press inquiries:
Glass Onyon PR,
PH: 828-350-8158
E-mail: glassonyonpr@gmail.com
