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James Lloyd at BLU Jazz+

Presented by BLU Jazz+ at BLU Jazz+, Akron OH

Sep 22 2017
James Lloyd at BLU Jazz+

Get your tickets early for this show as we kick off the Fall season at BLU with one of the hottest keyboardists on today’s smooth jazz scene – see you there!

Billboard chart-topping keyboardist, recording artist, and co-founder of legendary group, “Pieces of a Dream,” brings an exciting new project to the Rubber City in BLU Jazz+ debut! Featuring James Lloyd, West Byrd, John C. Hall Jr., Justin Lee Walker, Tony Watson, Monica Carter.

Keyboardist James Lloyd, along with friends, bassist Cedric Napoleon, and drummer Curtis Harmon, founded Pieces of a Dream in 1975 in Philadelphia when they were all teenagers. The group based their name on “Pieces of Dreams,” a cover tune by Stanley Turrentine that they performed. The trio became internationally known when jazz legend, the late Grover Washington Jr., announced that he was starting a production company and that Pieces of a Dream would be his first act. Lloyd was only a senior in high school when his first album was released. Grover subsequently took Pieces all over the world allowing the trio to open for him as well as including them as part of his band. Just before their third world tour ... view more »

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