TOM JJ and GREG MILLER - TRAVELLER (CD)

TRACK LIST

1) Traveller 03:53 (Tom JJ)
2) Baby What You Want Me To Do 02:42 (Jimmy Reed)
3) Got My Eyes On You 04:23 (Jackie Rae, Les Reed)
4) Shame Shame Shame 03:03 (Jimmy Reed)
5) Dealing With The Devil 03:00 (Sonny Boy Williamson)
6) Black Dog 04:31 (Tom JJ)
7) The Things I Do For You 03:06 (Guitar Slim)
8) Act Like You Love Me 02:50 (Jimmy Rogers)

Produced by Tom JJ and Greg Miller Recorded and mixed by Andrew "Doc" Collins at the PMC Studios, Plymouth

Tom is an exciting, up and coming Blues artist from South London. Over the last six years, since he could legally get into the venues, Tom has been making a name for himself on the vibrant London Blues scene with his original songs and a mix of traditional Chicago style and foot stomping Texas Blues. Tom has been singing professionally since the age of eight. Trained on the trumpet, he started to teach himself blues harp and guitar at fourteen. He found an outlet for his blues passion a year later in a local piano bar and played for coca cola. He cajoled a few of his school friends into a band, organising them to busk every weekend. He says it taught him to manage the strange whims of musicians, understand audiences and set lists and to keep a pair of fingerless gloves on standby in the winter. When he left school, he started a university course in London but found his heart wasn’t in academia and his music degree was getting in the way of his playing. He left after a year and with the help of a few generous well-known musicians he embedded himself quickly on the London scene. He was soon taking over the running of a couple of well-respected weekly Blues jams and creating new ones. He has recently been working with the Giles Robson band touring Holland, Belgium and the Czech Republic. He has played with James Harman, Billy Branch, Magic Dick, Ian Siegal and Katie Bradley. Last year on a solo trip to Austen, Texas, he played with Paul Oscher, the harmonica player in the Muddy Waters band.

Greg is a vocalist and multi-award winning harmonica player. He started playing the harmonica at the age of 17. After teaching himself, he went on to study at the Paris Harmonica School (founded by Greg Zlapsinski), whilst also training with internationally renowned harmonicists Carlos Del Junco and Nico Wayne Toussaint. Greg left France in 2010 to settle in London. Devoting his energy to his musical progress, he took part in several endeavours. In 2011, he was named Blues Harmonica Player of the Year at the National Harmonica League, and in 2013 He won the first price at Jazz World Harmonica Festival. He created the London Harmonica School in 2012, the school has been growing since then and it is now a very popular place to learn harmonica. Greg also runs the regular Blues night series called “ The London Blues Revue”, which has seen fantastic, international, artists coming from around the globe whom Greg accompanied, such as Ian Siegal, Dana Gillespie, Kyla Brox, Marcus Malone or Arnaud Fradin. Greg plays regularly with his band in London in venues like the Blues Kitchen, Green Notes or Ain’t Nothing But the Blues, and around Europe. Greg released his first solo album in 2015. Entitled 'Destination For Dreamers', the album encompasses ten original tracks showcasing the versatility and unique sound of the harmonica. Since then, Greg has opened for Van Morrison and Mary Coughlan. He also played at the Dennis Hopper exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts.