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I am the keyboardist for a concert series that features Bobby Keys the saxman for The Rolling Stones, John Lennon. Ringo, George Harrison , Clapton, and a thousand other classic rock names. He has traveled the world many times over. We are looking for an agent or an aggressive individual to help find venues to perform our show.  We have a wonderful program that features music that Bobby was the original saxophonist and other favorites. We are covering a huge variety of music from the stones to leo sayer, Mad dogs and englishmen, Jimmy Mcgriff, to Peter Gunn, and tons of material in between. Bobby tells  personal stories throughout the night that keeps the audience riveted as we stroll through hit after hit and style after style. We even do a few original compositions. The show is very entertaining and affordable. We also have a duo with just piano, vocals and sax. Contact me for more information. Biography Bobby Keys was a successful Muscle Shoals session saxophonist long before he met the Stones, but once he did back in '69, he quickly became the R & B sax player every British pop and rock act wanted to have on it's records. He's still around and still shows up on Stones records every once in a while. On most (but not all) of his late 60's/early 70's appearances he's teamed with trumpet player Jim Price. John Horn remember's " Bobby Keys is undoubtedly one of the most unforgettable characters I've ever met. He's been playing saxophone for the Rolling Stones for a long time. When I was in England in 73', we worked together on the Goats Head Soup album with the Stones.There were no rock and roll horn players in London or Europe during the 70's,so the sound andour style of playing was in demand. We would sleep all day in Bobbys'country cottage,then by evening wine & dine at our favorite inn, The Baily Wyck, outside London. One night when 'The Who' were cutting tracks for their next album, we walked in with our horns and Bobby said with his Texas drawl, "What time do you want to put the horns on tonight"? They couldn't refuse. Every night was a different experience." BIOGRAPHY / PROFILE Best-known for his long association with the Rolling Stones, tenor saxophonist Bobby Keys spent several decades as an in-demand session man and touring musician, able to play blues, R&B, and rock & roll with equal flair. Born and raised in Texas, Keys was playing in rock & roll bands as early as the '50s, and worked with Buddy Holly and Bobby Vee, among many others. Keys worked regularly at the famed Muscle Shoals studios in Alabama before meeting the Stones in 1969; his work on Let It Bleed (not to mention the simple fact of association) quickly made him a hot property. Over the next few years, Keys played on albums by George Harrison (All Things Must Pass), Delaney & Bonnie, Eric Clapton, Humble Pie, the Faces, Carly Simon, Nilsson, Joe Cocker, John Lennon, Ringo Starr, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and B.B. King. He also continued his relationship with the Stones, appearing on classics like Sticky Fingers and Exile on Main Street, and striking up an instant chemistry with Keith Richards. In 1972, Keys recorded a self-titled solo album for Warner Bros., which featured an all-star guest lineup including members of the Beatles, Cream, Mountain, and Traffic, plus his longtime trumpet-playing partner Jim Price. By the mid-'70s, his activities with the Stones were beginning to tail off, though he maintained a working relationship with the band over the years, both in the studio and on the road. He continued to find work through his old connections, and in 1979 joined Ron Wood's touring band the New Barbarians. In more recent years, Keys has continued to tour with the Stones and guest on the occasional album (including Sheryl Crow's The Globe Sessions), and also performed with the Lubbock, TX-based band the Ace Liquidators. ~ Steve Huey, New Barbarians: Mac, Woody, Bobby Keys, Zigaboo Modeliste, Keith and Stanley Clarke 1979 Instrumentation Sax, keyboards, bass, guitar, drums, percussion, vocals Bobby Keys & Joe Cocker on YouTube Bobby Keys on MYSPACE