Where: Paradiso
✉ Weteringschans 6-8Amsterdam
1017 SG
Netherlands
Amsterdam
What: The Hi-Stakes @ Paradiso
When:
The Hi-Stakes are back with their second album, “Do It!”, celebrating this milestone in Paradiso, together with Amsterdam Beat Club. Expect a steamy live show full of originally written Rhythm ’n’ Blues, delivered with fire by this hyperactive Amsterdam band. Led by Sam Ghezzi, The Hi-Stakes delve deep into the rich historical heritage of the 1950s and 1960s, but with a sharp, modern twist. All original work, all at full throttle. Dance floor ready? Let’s do it!
How Much:
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1017 SG
Netherlands
Who: The Hi-Stakes
Blues
The Hi-Stakes, featuring their iconic frontman Sam Ghezzi, is a quintet based in Amsterdam. The band makes the audience jump, dance and shout to Rhythm and Blues inspired by Louis Jordan, dream away to the sweet sound of Blues Ballads in the heritage of Percy Mayfield and shake the hips to the boogaloos of Blue Note Records of the late 50’s.
Original tunes, with lyrics full of irony and passion, played authentically from a vast range of popular genres of the time, be it a lyrical blues ballad or an explosive old school rhythm ’n blues number; in other words, their repertoire covers anything in between the jazz and the blues worlds.
The Hi-Stakes features Sam Ghezzi on vocals and tenor saxophone, Frank Groenendijk on tenor saxophone, Linus Eppinger on guitar, César Puente on upright bass and Joe Korach on drums. The particular combination of two tenor saxophones as horn section shows their own timber and sound in a unique and distinctive way.
“Sam somehow performs the hat trick of creating original music (and lyrics) that clearly evokes a bygone era (specifically the Jazz golden age that flowered from the early 1930’s to the late 1940’s), yet manages to sidestep both the easy retro cliches and the excessive piety of many revivalists, both of which only serve to keep Jazz safely sanitized, tucked away in a museum’s display case. ” -Matt Munisteri
" W H E R E T H E I R S T Y L E V I N T A G E M E E T S S O U N D V I S U A L - I L S O U N D " – A B A N D T H A T M A T C H E S W I T H A P E R F E C T L Y T A I L O R E D I D E N T I T Y D O L O M I T I
“VINTAGE VIBES WITH A MODERN PUNCH” – A UNIQUE BLEND OF LYRICAL BLUES BALLADS AND OLD SCHOOL RHYTHM & BLUES (HAARLEMSE STADSGLOSSY).