Corky Siegel, Ernie Watts, Kalyan Pathak - TRIO

SPACE is bringing the fireworks back with Blues Legend CORKY SIEGEL, Jazz Icon ERNIE WATTS, and Indian Tabla Wizard KALYAN PATHAKHumorous and insightful songs and instrumentals. Saxophone icon ERNIE WATTS - Two GRAMMY Awards, featured on over 1500 classic albums, toured/recorded with The ROLLING STONES, 20 years with CHARLIE HADENS QUARTET WEST, the TONIGHT SHOW BAND, teams up with longtime friend and collaborator Blues piano and harmonica legend, singer-songwriter, composer, CORKY SIEGEL. Hes the co-founder of SIEGEL-SCHWALL and the founder of the critically acclaimed genre defying CHAMBER BLUES, blowing minds here at SPACE in May. With a catalogue of recordings on Vanguard, RCA, and Alligator, Siegel also recorded benchmark platinum selling recordings on Deutsche Grammophon, as soloist with MAESTRO SEIJI OZAWA and the SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY. This brought Siegel additional global notoriety and invitations for performances world-wide with over 50 major symphonies - Not bad for a Blues harp guy from Chicagos south-side who learned directly from Chicago blues masters like MUDDY WATERS and HOWLIN WOLF. The high-voltage Watts and Siegel met on a multi-date tour of DR. L. SUBRAMANIAMS GLOBAL FUSION in INDIA where they joined at the very hip. They will amp up the night with tabla ace KALYAN PATHAK ((Fleet Finger Virtuosity)) says Chicago Tribune Critic, Howard Reich and ((Signature Brand of Percussion Magic.)) DOWNBEAT MAGAZINE. BILLBOARD MAGAZINE calls CORKY SIEGEL ((A piano and harmonica virtuoso of remarkable invention and wit)) and the ASSOCIATED PRESS points out, ((For more than half a century, CORKY SIEGEL has brought new colors to the blues ...to bridge musical genres and cultural divides, making the world slightly smaller and kinder.)) ERNIE WATTS; ((...breathes fire, can cool with ice, whip up a storm, and shape his sax sound in ways otherworldly. This is a powerful, yet sensitive, technically Herculean, yet human, complex yet elegantly beautiful player - no, a m