Jan Fanucchi: Vocals
Walter Jebe: Guitars
Henry Salvia: Keyboards
Paul Revelli: Drums
Burt Winn: Bass
Jan has been singing in the San Francisco bay area for 25 years in local
bands with a wide range in musical styles, predominently the blues.
Jan met up with Doug
Hamblin in 1986 while both were in Dave Wellhausen’s studio
doing separate projects, and decided to pair up. They were soon
signed to independent Blueprint Records. The debut LP, Doug
Hamblin-Jan Fanucci featured some of the Bay Area's
prominent blues players (eg. keyboardist Jimmy Pugh, now with Robert
Cray; longtime Van Morrison bassist David Hayes; stellar guitarist
Amos Garrett) and received 5 star raves in the Gavin Report and
CMJ (College Music Journal). It was an instant hit in various markets
in the U.S.and Europe, both in the blues world and on commercial
rock radio.
Doug
Hamblin-Jan Fanucci is
now reissued on Fat City Records, along with a bonus track “River
of Love”. They began touring with the strength of solid radio
play, selling out San Francisco's Great American Music Hall, Seattle's
Backstage and Aspen’s Paradise club. The LP's first single,
"Let's Make Love", finally peaked at #6 on Billboard Magazine's
Top Ten for radio airplay in the Pacific Northwest, and earned them
a Bammy nomination for Blues Artist of the Year in 1988. A song
from this CD/LP was featured in the Franchise Pictures release “Angel
Eyes” starring Jennifer Lopez in 2001.
Jan has opened for such Blues greats as:
Albert King, John Lee Hooker, Koko Taylor, Lonnie Brooks, The Neville
Brothers, Gregg Allman, Dr. John, Etta James, Marcia Ball, Joe Louis
Walker and Jeff Healey among others.
Playing now under the name “Jan Fanucchi & Friends”, Jan is currently collaborating with guitarist Walter Jebe on roots based music. Showcasing musical diversity and integrity with styles ranging from blues, rock-a-billy, swing and country. Jan’s soulful vocals and the band's sympathetic backing pulls you in for a new twist on the American genre. Jan is stoked to be playing with such professional players who’ve been in the local music scene for years.
Walter
has been playing music for 27 years in the San Francisco Bay Area.
He received his education on the bandstand.
After
being in various rock, blues and country bands, Walter finally settled
into straight-ahead, down-home, blues. This led to playing the blues
clubs in the Bay Area, including The Boom Boom Room, The Saloon,
The Grant & Green, JJ's Blues, The Paradise Lounge, The Oakland
Blues & Heritage Festival, and the Haight Street Fair.
>Walter
has performed with Beverly Stovel, Big Daddy from Cincinnati and
the South Park Blues Band, Nicole & the Big City Blues, and
Terry Hiatt. This led to many opportunities to sit in or jam with
Jorma Kaukonen, Johnny Nitro, Johnny Ace, Jerry Miller, Harvey Mandell,
and Chris Cobb. Walter has opened shows for Little Charlie and the
Nightcats, Elvin Bishop, Maria Muldaur, Joe Louis Walker and the
Boss Talkers, Chris Cain, Tommy Castro, Gary Smith, and Anson Funderburg
and the Rockets.
Walter
teaches blues guitar at Gryphon
Music in Palo Alto.
Henry
Salvia was born a dim-witted but honest child in the Cagolugo section
of Detroit.
As
a child, he threatened his parents with becoming a drummer until
he discovered that the piano was larger and heavier, so naturally
he began to play it. After a long and undistiguished career performing
in luxurious hotels and corner dives throughout the Metropolitan
area, he decided to move to Los Angeles to expand his opportunities,
and wound up in San Fransicso.
Several years of playing rock and Top 40 in Detroit was ideal training
for his role in the Billy Band,who played both kinds of music (country
and western). After being replaced by a pedal steel guitar (though
no one in the Billy Band played it, it looked better on stage than
Henry), he moved to a roots rock band called the Hurricanes, where
he was suprised to discover his wife singing for the band. So, he
married her. It seemed the honorable thing to do.
All
of this experience playing rock and country made him the logical
selection as the piano player for the Johnny
Nocturne band, who specialize in R&B, soul, and jazz. Henry's
frenetic yet lyrical style (describe by bandleader John Firmin as
"a cross between Carmen Cavellero and Cecil Taylor") is
featured on several of their albums.
Henry has had the honor of working with artists such as Bo Diddley,
Rickie Lee Jones, Johnny Colla (of Huey Lewis and the News), Big
Jay McNeeley, Jessica Mitford, Tommy Ridgely, Al Kooper, Peter Coyote,
Big Lou the Accordian Princess, and (his favorite) Johnny Adams.
Henry
has been unbelievably lucky in accompanying some of the best female
vocalists around. He now happily gets to add Jan Fanucci to this
list.
Born
in the sixties, native San Franciscan Paul Revelli has been playing
drums for most of his life. Diverse skills, a passion for playing
and listening to all genres of music, and his intuition as the consumate
sideman are at the heart of this drummer’s beat.
As a member of the mid-eighties rock group Red 7, Revelli recorded two albums with the band, both on MCA. The first, Red 7, was produced by Mike Rutherford of Genesis and Mike and the Mechanics fame. A second album entitled When The Sun Goes Down was released, followed by extensive worldwide touring before the group disbanded in 1987.
In 1989, Revelli joined Joe Louis Walker and the Boss Talkers, recording four albums with them: Live at Slim’s, Vols. 1 and 2 (on Hightone), Blues Survivor (on Verve) and J.L.W. (also on Verve). Additionally, he recorded a track on B.B. King’s Blues Summit album (MCA) for Joe Louis Walker’s duet with the blues legend. During his five years with the Boss Talkers, Revelli toured the United States, Canada and Europe and Scandinavia several times over. Along the way, he has shared festival stages with some of the greatest names in Blues and R & B, an incredible journey to say the least.
From there, Revelli worked with roots rock artist Chuck Prophet and can be heard on three of Prophet’s releases: Feast of Hearts (on China), Homemade Blood (on Cooking Vinyl) and The Hurting Business (on Hightone). Formerly of the band Green on Red, Prophet’s reputation in Europe found Revelli once again playing some of the great festivals and venues there as a result.
Now
as a freelance musician, Revelli maintains a healthy schedule working
in the studios on album dates, demos and jingle sessions, as well
as playing live with a list of artists that includes Angela Strehli,
Lou Ann Barton, Tracy Nelson, Bonnie Hayes, The Court and Spark,
Charlie Musselwhite, Maria Muldaur, Bo Diddley, Roy Gaines, Rusty
Zinn, Los Mocosos. Pinetop Perkins, Phil Guy, and Peter Case.
Burton
Winn is a Bay Area music veteran who has played bass for over
30 years. The blues came calling for Burton in the mid 1980s. This
led to steady gigs in both San Jose, at the famed JJ’s Blues
Café, and in Berkeley at the Till Two club on Shattuck
Ave. Before spending a few years on the road with Mark Hummel Blues
Survivors, Burton solidified his blues roots by playing with some
luminaries Paul Green, Paul Durquette, Byrd Hale, Levi Lloyd and
the Doug Hamblin/Jan Fanucchi Band. Traveling with Mark Hummel,
Burton went to Europe the first time, to the Ravenna Blues Festival,
Italy, playing with Mark, Johnny Hartsman, Sarah Livingston, and
sax legend Earl Brown.
Except for a couple of European trips with Santa Cruz’s Soul Drivers, full time road travel diminished in the early 1990’s so Burton has enjoyed playing with many people in the Bay Area and Texas. Burton now calls San Francisco’s The Saloon his musical home and has played there quite often over the last eighteen years, working steadily with Johnny Nitro, Wendy Dewitt, Eugene Huggins, The Powell Street Blues band, Steve Fruend and others. His recording credits include 1980s vinyl with popster Eric Blakely, a 45rpm single with The Doug Hamblin/Jan Fanucchi Band and CDs with Kenny Blue Ray, Eugene Huggins, Edward “Earl” Thomas, Rene Solis, Johnny Nitro, Wendy Dewitt and Angela Strehli. He is currently playing locally in the Bay Area with many bands and has returned to occasional international travel with American popster Eric Blakely.
Visit Burton’s website.