Matt Banco Get Out

The Mojo Blues Band is a blues band around Erik Trauner, dedicated to the Chicago blues in changing occupation since 1977. The models include muddy waters, Jimmy Reed, Sonny Boy Williamson, and T-Bone Walker. But every effort to develop an own musical handwriting and maintain the Mojo Blues Band. The band in the hit was successful with the song "Rosa Lee".The name comes from the term Mojo magic describing a kind of Talisman in the Voodoo. This word is very commonly used in blues and rock and roll and was disseminated to worldwide. Erik Trauner quoted including muddy waters: I've got my Mojo working, but it just don't work on you.

While the name of the combo and the bio both suggest jazz standards of the 30s and 40s a la Django Reinhardt, this recording bears little resemblance to any of its Paris (almost) namesake. There is the Grappelli-like violin style of Nik Brown and some lovely jazz guitar from Andrew London, but Terry Crayford's piano and smooth vocals along with the wit and vocal edge of London's songs take this album into a very different terrain. In fact Andrew London's Middle Class White Boy Blues sort of sums it up. It's great! Polished performances all round, plenty of variety and a sense that they're not taking it all too seriously. Yes, it's jazz but not for the purists, it's way too accessible!