This must-see band spans the good time feel of Blues, R’n’B, Swing, Jazz and more, all coming up smoothly. There’s plenty of up tempo guitar with heartfelt backing. An exceptional live act that will send you home satisfied. Anyone can do covers, but this band does it exemplary.

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Vince Lee is a former drummer who played with diverse punk and garage bands. At the age of eighteen he discovered the blues and he formed his first band with the name Vince Lee Blues Band. The repertoire of that band consisted of typical twelve bar Chicago blues and their cooperation would last for nine years. Also, he released a solo album which was mainly based on slide guitar, but later on he applied himself to jump, swing, soul and R&B. When his first band broke up in ’96 he had already plans for a totally new concept, and thus The Big Combo was born. This band, named after a film noir, only consist of three musicians.

Vince is a blues man, but his drummer Sean May and current bass player Al Wallis are not really blues musicians. However, their energetic youth and their musical backgrounds make the band automatically more accessible to a live crowd, says Vince. The debut album Call It What You Wanna!, released February 2003, is the living prove. There are eighteen carefully chosen songs. Despite the fact that they are all covers, I had no problem listening till the end. The choice of covers is remarkable, to say the least. Highlights are Tom Waits’ ‘Jockey Full Of Bourbon’, Colin James’s crossover jazzy ‘Satellite’ and a gripping version of ‘Sit Right here’ by Roscoe Gordon.