Vinyl Wednesday: Peven Everett - Studio Confessions

So the first time we played the music from Royalty For Real wasn't in Amersfoort, the Netherlands, but in Bengaluru and Mumbai, all the way in India in 2023!Here you'll see me play Au Privave, Classy Cats and Royalty For Real, together with Timothy Banchet (piano), Marius Beets (bass) and Sven Rozier (drums).Au Privave is a well-known blues by Charlie Parker which I often like to start with, almost like a soundcheck tune. Although most of the time a soundcheck is done I found out it's a good idea to play a tune everybody of the band knows very well so we all can get used to the sound of the stage, the presence of the audience and it also gives the sound engineer the chance to adjust microphones last minute. During the soundcheck, the sound of the room is significantly different because of the lack of audience. All that flesh and clothes work a little bit like a totally empty room versus a room with furniture and carpets, if you know what I mean :-)Acoustics are so interesting and full of surprises.. Anyways.. hope you like it! - I knew the name for years and I knew single tunes by him, but finally I came across a piece of vinyl, his debut album Studio Confessions.There's no Wikipedia article about him yet which is ridiculous, seen the amount of his work and collaborations yet. Luckily there's Discogs.His music is mainly in between soul, r&b and dance/house. He's a singer, keyboard player, producer based in Chicago. He will be touring and also visiting Paradiso/Tolhuistuin on 02-04-2017.Here's a song from Studio Confessions. It fits in easily in between Erykah Badu, Amp Fiddler and other jazzy soul musicians..Visit his website