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Joe Tatton Trio:Joe Tatton - Organ
Luke Flowers - Drums
Pete Mason - Guitar
Joe Tatton is a pianist, organist, singer & songwriter who emerged from the diverse Leeds music scene around 2001 – he’s been a core member of the soul/funk quartet The New Mastersounds for over 16 years.
As part of NMS, Joe has recorded over a dozen albums and many singles as well as toured 8-9 months a year in the USA, across Europe and Japan. Joe held down the keyboard role with UK jazz-funk kings The Haggis Horns, appearing on their first two albums Hot Damn! and Keep On Movin’. He’s also featured on the worldwide hit single “Put Your Records On” by Corinne Bailey Rae, and has performed with Maceo Parker, Fred Wesley, Art Neville, George Porter Jr. and Zigaboo Modeliste of The Meters.
Big Fish, the debut album from Joe Tatton Trio, is in large part a tribute to the legendary, late bluesman from Mississippi Mose Allison: his sardonic songs as well as his great piano playing style.
What began with Joe and his trio basically playing full live sets of the great man’s music soon turned into Joe writing his own compositions in the vein of Mose. Songs that had that same ironic and humorous view of life as Allison, but updated to the 21st century. Needing to find the way and place to record them, Joe managed to carve some time in between gigs with The New Mastersounds to book a few days at a studio near Nashville, The Rockhouse, run by Grammy-winning engineer Kevin Mckendree. He hooked up with a couple of Nashville session musicians, Steve Mackie on upright and electric bass and Kenneth Blevins on drums, and put down all his original songs and also a cover of Mose Allison‘s “Ever Since The World Ended”. The latter sounds as relevant today after the COVID lockdown age as it did back in the 1950s when it was written, a time when the Cold War threatened to get hot and end the world with nuclear armageddon.
There’s the banging northern soul groove of “Just Don’t Stop” (featuring The Haggis Horns), and the satirical title track “Big Fish” (about being a jazz musician in the middle of nowhere) with its New Orleans swagger (where Joe has played so many times for JazzFest, Mardi Gras and New Year's Eve). There’s the very Mose-esque “Timeline”, a satirical lament to social media that also came out on 45, and some cracking instrumentals featuring the supreme jazz flautist G-LOCK(Gareth Lockrane) tearing it up.
Praise for Joe’s first album “Big Fish”
“….a really great, befitting and life-affirming album. In short, a real touch of class.” – Blues and Soul
“One of the most enjoyable albums of the year !” – Music Republic Magazine
“A really great surprise.. a little miracle !” – Soul Bag Magazine (FR)
“A Monster…. huge talent” – Craig Charles Funk and Soul show R6
“Solid as a rock..” – Flea Market Funk
Joe has always maintained a trio under his own name, with releases on ATA Records (UK) and Color Red Music (USA). For the first time, he teams up with Spanish jazz guitarist, Lucas De Mulder on a new Hammond Organ project. They will be showcasing some new songs from the upcoming album “Galáctico"
Luke Flowers is the well-known drummer of Cinematic Orchestra who features on the new album and will join us for this special gig at the Carlton Club. They will also be joined by Pete Mason on guitar
A single will be out in May and the new record will be released on vinyl and CD in the summer. Expect sounds and influences such as Grant Green, Boogaloo Joe Jones, Jimmy Smith, Big John Patton, Lonnie Smith and The Meters.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Rowan Lodge, 113 Carlton Road, M16 8BE Manchester, United Kingdom, 115 Carlton Road, Manchester, M16 8BE, United Kingdom,Manchester, United Kingdom
