THIS EVENING [JUNE 8] AT ENOCH'S- [c]2018 DOUG DUFFEY
Friday, June 08, 2018
Saturday, February 08, 2014
WEBSITE UPDATE
http://www.dougduffey.com/
SHAKEN NOT STIRRED... STILL IN THE PROCESS OF RENOVATING... MERCI, TOUT LA MONDE!
[c]2014 DOUG DUFFEY
SHAKEN NOT STIRRED... STILL IN THE PROCESS OF RENOVATING... MERCI, TOUT LA MONDE!
[c]2014 DOUG DUFFEY
Saturday, January 18, 2014
The Doug Duffey International Soulband (USA/CH/UK/EG
The Doug Duffey International Soul Band (USA/CH/UK/EG)
Soul / Rock / Blues
Mittwoch, 22. Januar 2014 | 20.30
Der charismatische Blues/Rock/Soul-Sänger, Pianist und
Komponist aus Louisiana mit seiner grossartigen Band endlich wieder in
seinem Schweizer Lieblingsclub!
Sein beeindruckendes musikalisches Lebenswerk bewirkte 2001 und 2009
Aufnahme in die "Louisiana Hall Of Fame" und "National Blues Hall Of
Fame" – und seine langjährige Verbindungzur Mahogany Hall vor 2 Jahren
die Ehrenmitgliedschaft in seinem Lieblingsclub. Mit seinem
traditionellen und modernen LousianaSound, vielen Eigenkompositionen und
Evergreens gilt er als einer der besten Botschafter seines Heimatlandes
und heizt mit fulminanten Auftritten seinem Publikum kräftig ein. Wir
freuen uns extrem, dass er nach 2-jähriger Absenz seinen Geburtstag in
der Mahogany Hall mit uns und seinen Fans feiern und uns alle wie immer
begeistern wird!
Line up: Doug Duffey USA, piano/voc, Kelvin Bullen UK, guitar/voc, Christian Spahni CH, bass/ voc, Hani Ali EG, drums
Tuesday, September 03, 2013
Blues Man - Monroe's Doug Duffey promotes Louisiana music around the world
Blues Man
Monroe's Doug Duffey promotes Louisiana music around the world
Monroe native, Doug Duffey, has made a name for himself as a professional, international musician. But, even after performing at festivals and touring in Europe, Duffey can often be found playing in Monroeat Enoch's Irish Pub. / Emerald McIntyre/The News-Star
Aug. 31, 2013
What: Doug Duffey solo performance
When: 9:30 p.m. Sept. 20
Where: Enoch’s Irish Pub & Café, 507 Louisville Ave.
Info: 388-3662
When: 9:30 p.m. Sept. 20
Where: Enoch’s Irish Pub & Café, 507 Louisville Ave.
Info: 388-3662
Doug
Duffey isn’t a morning person. He will be the first to admit this, with
a good-natured laugh. And who can blame him — he’s been a professional
musician since he was 14 years old. How many late-night gigs does that
make? Two thousand? Ten thousand?
Born and raised in Monroe, Duffey got his start in the 1960s, playing in rock bands at area recreation centers, school dances, even a skating rink. Today, he has a dozen CDs to his name and his own Wikipedia page, and he has been inducted into two music halls of fame.
Vocalist, pianist, composer — Duffey has performed at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, the Montreal Jazz Festival and the Louisiana Folklife Festival. Add to that his 20 years touring Europe, playing in England, Germany, Belgium, Holland, Italy, Denmark, even twice in the American embassy in Moscow. These days, when in Europe, he often performs in Switzerland, in concert halls, five-star hotels and festivals. He was recently named an honorary member of Mahogany Hall in Bern, a legendary Swiss jazz club.
During his annual European tours, his band is called the Doug Duffey International Soul Band. Along with Duffey (piano and vocals), the troupe includes Kelvin Bullen (guitar), Sebastian Niessner (bass) and Hani Ali (drums), three international musicians who were born in Trinidad, Switzerland, and Egypt respectively.
“We’re like a delta blues band,” Duffey says, “because we’re all from a different delta. I’m from the Mississippi Delta; Hani’s from the Nile Delta; Kelvin’s from the Thames Delta; and Sebastian’s from the Limmat Delta, which is the river that runs through Zurich.”
Born and raised in Monroe, Duffey got his start in the 1960s, playing in rock bands at area recreation centers, school dances, even a skating rink. Today, he has a dozen CDs to his name and his own Wikipedia page, and he has been inducted into two music halls of fame.
Vocalist, pianist, composer — Duffey has performed at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, the Montreal Jazz Festival and the Louisiana Folklife Festival. Add to that his 20 years touring Europe, playing in England, Germany, Belgium, Holland, Italy, Denmark, even twice in the American embassy in Moscow. These days, when in Europe, he often performs in Switzerland, in concert halls, five-star hotels and festivals. He was recently named an honorary member of Mahogany Hall in Bern, a legendary Swiss jazz club.
During his annual European tours, his band is called the Doug Duffey International Soul Band. Along with Duffey (piano and vocals), the troupe includes Kelvin Bullen (guitar), Sebastian Niessner (bass) and Hani Ali (drums), three international musicians who were born in Trinidad, Switzerland, and Egypt respectively.
“We’re like a delta blues band,” Duffey says, “because we’re all from a different delta. I’m from the Mississippi Delta; Hani’s from the Nile Delta; Kelvin’s from the Thames Delta; and Sebastian’s from the Limmat Delta, which is the river that runs through Zurich.”
Duffey was in his twenties when he began playing music all across the United States: Colorado, Las Vegas, Los Angles, Nashville, Little Rock, New Orleans, New York. He recorded his first single in Nashville in 1970. Later, in Los Angeles, he wrote songs for and performed with a long list of music stars — names like George Clinton, Funkadelic, Rare Earth, Keith Richards, David Byrne, Herbie Hancock. . . .
Louisiana singer Marcia Ball has twice covered Duffey’s song, “If It Ain’t One Thing.” Perhaps best known among Duffey’s many compositions are “New Orleans Rain” and “Louisiana.”
Duffey lived and worked in New Orleans for many years, and some of his songs have names like “Carnival Time in the City” and “Home Sweet Bourbon Street.” And he likes nothing better than to sing a classic like “St. James Infirmary” or to give a unique twist to “House of the Rising Sun.” No doubt it was his long New Orleans sojourn that enriched the Louisiana branch of his music — a mélange of north and south. Today, he is based in Monroe and lives in a house built by his grandfather in 1920.
As if a lifetime career as a professional musician were not enough, Duffey is also an artist and photographer, his work appearing in galleries and solo shows in the United States and in Europe. (He’s been taking photos since he was 13 when his mother loaned him her Brownie camera.) He has published two art books: “European Collages” and “Louisiana Americana.”
With decades of music-making behind him, Duffey isn’t showing any signs of slowing down; in fact, he says that he’s pushing into new territories with a growing interest in jazz and improvisation. He has a new CD in the works, upcoming gigs on the schedule and a European tour set for December. Area fans will be able to hear him in the annual Celtic Festival in Kiroli Park this October. Before that, he’ll perform a solo concert at Enoch’s Irish Pub & Café in Monroe on Sept. 20.
This northeastern Louisiana native got his start in high school in rock bands with names like “The Secrets” and “Thursday’s Children,” then moved on to playing old-time Monroe venues like the Dynasty Lounge and the Saddle & Spur, then voyaged through America from east coast to west, all the while perfecting his craft. It has been a long, circuitous journey, but today, Monroe’s Doug Duffey plays to loyal audiences both in Europe and the United States, still making music as a soul-filled, hard-driving, Louisiana bluesman.
William Caverlee has been writing features for The News-Star since 2010. He is a contributing editor of The Oxford American Magazine and the author of "Amid the Swirling Ghosts and Other Essays" (University of Louisiana at Lafayette).
Saturday, August 17, 2013
MOMENTS IN A DAY REDUX
MOMENTS IN A DAY REDUX
It seems MOMENTS IN A DAY, the "album" [downloads only] which i thought was released a year ago, somehow got lost in the shuffle. Got a notice a day or so ago saying it needed to be finalized. i thought it already WAS finalized and online. DUH! ANYWAY this is a cd make up of acoustic piano improvisations done in one day [of many] in Switzerland in mid to late 2012. [could it really have been only last summer? my God it seems like decades ago] VERY mellow stuff- good for beddy byes [on low] driving, reading, meditating etc. VERY non intrusive/invasive and 'spiritual' [to me, anyway] i keep a copy in my car cd player [along with other improvisational stuff i've done and will be releasing] and have done for over a year- just 'proofing them. anyway, download and enjoy [from all cd sites:iTunes, Amazon, etc.]- and thanks in advance.
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/dougduffey14
[c]2013 DOUG DUFFEY
It seems MOMENTS IN A DAY, the "album" [downloads only] which i thought was released a year ago, somehow got lost in the shuffle. Got a notice a day or so ago saying it needed to be finalized. i thought it already WAS finalized and online. DUH! ANYWAY this is a cd make up of acoustic piano improvisations done in one day [of many] in Switzerland in mid to late 2012. [could it really have been only last summer? my God it seems like decades ago] VERY mellow stuff- good for beddy byes [on low] driving, reading, meditating etc. VERY non intrusive/invasive and 'spiritual' [to me, anyway] i keep a copy in my car cd player [along with other improvisational stuff i've done and will be releasing] and have done for over a year- just 'proofing them. anyway, download and enjoy [from all cd sites:iTunes, Amazon, etc.]- and thanks in advance.
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/dougduffey14
[c]2013 DOUG DUFFEY
Thursday, July 26, 2012
Thursday, May 10, 2012
la méditation éthérée
My new CD "la méditation éthérée- 1" [a meditation in 7 movements] is finally online for "digital download only". this music is ONE work in 7 movements; it is not meant to be 7 tracks. it should be listened to in the order it is presented, and was meant to be. it was and is musical therapy for me.
i have decided to shrink my carbon [and petroleum] footprint by making my improvisational, experimental, electronic, ambient music, musique concrete, etc. available via download only.
i have decided to shrink my carbon [and petroleum] footprint by making my improvisational, experimental, electronic, ambient music, musique concrete, etc. available via download only.
when i am creating improvisational recordings- solo piano, solo synth, OR multi tracked synth recordings- the performance is the composition; the finished work; composition and recording created at the same time. it was performed the one time, when i improvised and recorded it; it will never be performed again. [not by me, anyway]
when doing solo piano improv, i only take the track into Sound Forge & normalize it. i might add some minimal reverb if i feel it needs it. i never edit it. when doing multi track improvisations i do go back and check levels, add effects, mix, etc. etc. but the 1st track is usually the main theme track, which i don't edit; and all other tracks/overdubs are improvised over or around the original one. sometimes i don't remember what i played on the first track, but that doesn't matter. i like some discord atonal weirdness and then resolve; but, if it's glaringly OUT, i MIGHT do a retake; but not always. interesting is more important than antiseptic
this music was created using my samsung android galaxy s phone with synth apps, recorded in Sound Forge 9.0 on my laptop, then flown into Acid 7.0 and various loops/sounds from my loop/sample libraries added, as well as reverbs, fx and delays etc. Then, mixed & rendered in Acid, then taken back to Sound Forge, for normalization, and any extra fx needed. voila! c'est la!
each session i have done in the last years is totally different, and this was actually the last work i have created. i was working on it, while also doing some tracks using Bram Brothers/Taureg and Rebirth/Propellerhead. i finished this first so, it went out first.
the gazillion other tracks [acoustic piano tracks, electric piano tracks, solo synth tracks, multi tracked synth tracks] need more thought, mixing, listening to, and work before i let them go. i enjoy this "cd"[cyber /cosmically distributed] because it was so relaxing to do; it was musical healing; music therapy. it was and is very calming. i especially like to listen to it when i am driving, or writing in my journal in the morning, or as background when i am doing various projects in the house. no words, no drums, no problem
this music was created using my samsung android galaxy s phone with synth apps, recorded in Sound Forge 9.0 on my laptop, then flown into Acid 7.0 and various loops/sounds from my loop/sample libraries added, as well as reverbs, fx and delays etc. Then, mixed & rendered in Acid, then taken back to Sound Forge, for normalization, and any extra fx needed. voila! c'est la!
each session i have done in the last years is totally different, and this was actually the last work i have created. i was working on it, while also doing some tracks using Bram Brothers/Taureg and Rebirth/Propellerhead. i finished this first so, it went out first.
the gazillion other tracks [acoustic piano tracks, electric piano tracks, solo synth tracks, multi tracked synth tracks] need more thought, mixing, listening to, and work before i let them go. i enjoy this "cd"[cyber /cosmically distributed] because it was so relaxing to do; it was musical healing; music therapy. it was and is very calming. i especially like to listen to it when i am driving, or writing in my journal in the morning, or as background when i am doing various projects in the house. no words, no drums, no problem
[c]2012 DOUG DUFFEY
Friday, February 10, 2012
Monday, January 23, 2012
MAHOGANY HALL 1.21-22.2012 - COMPLETE SHOW- DOWNLOAD
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU! HERE IS THE COMPLETE SHOW [3 SETS] RECORDED LIVE [BY MARTIN RITCHARDS] AT MAHOGANY HALL [BERN, SWITZERLAND] JANUARY 21-22, 2012- WHICH JUST HAPPENED TO BE MY BIRTHDAY AS WELL.
HERE ARE THE SETS, FOR EVERYONE WHO COULD NOT BE THERE. "THE DOUG DUFFEY INTERNATIONAL SOUL BAND" ROCKIN'/ROLLIN'/GROOVIN'/SOULIN' ETC. DOING WHAT WE DO...THIS IS "LIVE"... WITH NO EDITS. [ALTHOUGH I PROBABLY NEEDED TO MAKE A FEW- LMAO] IT'S ALL THE WAY LIVE; RAW & REAL; WARTS AND ALL. I HOPE YOU ENJOY THE SHOW, AS MUCH AS WE ENJOYED PERFORMING!
MANY THANKS TO EVERYONE AT MAHOGANY HALL FOR MAKING THIS SHOW, MY 62ND BIRTHDAY [AND 48TH YEAR IN SHOW BUSINESS] , SUCH A GREAT ONE- AND FOR THE HONOR OF 'MEMBERSHIP' IN MY FAVORITE "HOME CLUB" IN SWITZERLAND.
THANKS TO JACQUELINE TRACHSEL [MY AGENT & FRIEND FOR 20 YEARS] FOR ALL HER HARD WORK ALL THESE YEARS, AND TO THE BAND FOR THEIR HARD WORK AND TALENT: KELVIN BULLEN [GUITAR & VOCALS] , HANI ALI [DRUMS] & SEBASTIAN 'SEBI' NIESSNER [BASS]
DUE TO MY RECENT LAPTOP CRASH- AND ALL MY VIDEO/AUDIO PROGRAMS NOT WORKING, I AM DOING THESE IN WINDOWS MOVIE MAKER- AT LOW RESOLUTION- I CAN'T BE SURE ABOUT THE SOUND QUALITY... BUT ...WHOMP! HERE IT IS
LADIES & GENTLEMEN, "THE DOUG DUFFEY INTERNATIONAL SOUL BAND":
INFO: WWW.DOUGDUFFEY.COM
WWW.JTR-AGENCY.CH
FOR BOOKINGS: JACQUELINE TRACHSEL
EMAIL: JTRACHSEL@SWISSONLINE.CH
TELEPHONE: 41.32.6524320
MOBILE: 41.79.2511508
[c] 2012DOUG DUFFEY
Tuesday, November 01, 2011
danger, sex and sound fx [notes]
danger, sex and sound fx
cds/downloads are available @ http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/dougduffey & other online music stores
1. call me up
2. don't you forget about me
3. dangerous love
4. cheap things
5. i won't cry
6. with losers like you
7. disarmed
8. muscle of love
9. you're my fantasy
10. publicity
11. mansion on the hill
12. burning in water
to order the cd:
http://www.rabadash.com/
Rabadash Records
P.O. Box 19384
New Orleans, La. 70179
http://www.rabadash.com/
Rabadash Records
P.O. Box 19384
New Orleans, La. 70179
all songs written by doug duffey, published by: doug duffey music, bmi
doug duffey- vocals, piano, organ, keyboards anders osbourne- guitars, keyboards, drumsjimmy messa- bass
louie ludwig- keyboards, drums
john katz/russell thomas- guitars
john autin- keyboards
backing vocals: nora wixted, anders osbourne, louie ludwig, doug duffey
produced by: louie ludwig, anders osborne & doug duffey- executive producer: john autin
recorded at rabadash recording studio, new orleans
mastered by parker dinkins [master digital, new orleans]
cover foto: martin ritzkowski
doug's notes:
at the time this cd was recorded, i was mostly known for playing solo on bourbon street; so, it was a shock for some people to hear me doing this music: hard bluesy techno-ish rock with a nasty edge... but, i'd always done rock and funk before i went solo.
in the mid to late 70s i was in 'razin' cain' - a very high-energy new orleans funky rock band doing all original music [i wrote the majority of the material]- AND in the late 80s i had 'doug duffey/street level/new orleans' a techno-voodoo-euro-gumbo-funk-rock-dance tribe [doing my original music] -so... for me, the music on this cd was NOT out of character. au contraire.
from left to right: doug duffey and john autin; louie ludwig; anders osborne; jimmy messa; nora wixted
click on fotos to enlarge
[c]2011 DOUG DUFFEY
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