Seattle's hottest & most unique jazz band. Dynamic original arrangements of the best jazz saxophone tunes ever recorded by the saxophone greats!
Your ears are treated to an exciting jazz concert every time the powerful, sizzling sounds of
BOYD PHELPS' SAX ATTACK! hits the stage. You won't believe it's just a quintet!
Next appearance:
Monday, January 30, 2012
7:30-10:30pm
TULA'S
2214 2nd Ave
Seattle, WA 98121
Tulas.com
$5-$10 sliding scale donation
Bandleader Boyd Phelps has recently returned to the band after spending most of the last year at home recovering from several strokes which caused "acquired amusia", a disorder that damaged his brain's ability to process music. Boyd has had the monumental task of relearning music from the very beginning. He continues to practice and study many hours everyday to regain lost skills. When recovering music after a stroke, it sure helps to have a neuropsychologist in the band, an acupuncturist for a wife, and unrelenting drive and determination to relearn lost skills. Boyd still has great difficulty talking, reading, and writing due to "aphasia" - a language disorder caused by the strokes - but he is glad to be regaining enough music skills to perform jazz. He still has a long way to go to recover the music and language skills he lost but his strong work ethic should ensure he'll achieve those goals.
Hear Boyd's first venture onto the bandstage since the strokes. He played this lovely ballad at Tula's in August: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dX2yv6EbTU
We wish to thank saxophonist Nathaniel Schleimer for doing a marvelous job of filling the void while Boyd was away, and pianist Ken Kassover for applying his knowledge of the brain and his skills as a jazz musician to guide Boyd's journey back to musicianship.