About Mojo Black

I'm from NYC having grown up there and gotten my education there as well. I'm a graduate of NYU Tisch School of the Arts with a B.F.A. in Film & T.V. I've always been artistically inclined with music and the visual arts dominating the greater part of my life. I'm known primarily as a Blues Harmonica player and vocalist having gotten involved in the NYC and NJ blues scene since about 1992. In 1995 I joined the Pat Jones Blues Band and had a three year stint with him and did many gigs in the NYC and NJ area and got to play with Buddy Miles and did several gigs with him as well as opened up for him. Since that time I've gotten to jam with just about every notable musician in the NY/NJ Blues scene and have remained active till the present day.

The CD Mojo Black Cat Bone was recorded and originally posted on the old MP3.com website back in 2000 as a project for our newly formed band by the same name which formed in 1999. I along with band mates John Andolino and Robert Sushko all veterans of the NYC-NJ Blues scene had decided that a self produced CD would be a good vehicle to showcase our talents on the new MP3.com website. At the time it was a thriving musicians based community that bears no semblance to the present day entity except for it's name. During that period several of the tracks broke into the top ten MP3.com contemporary Blues charts nationally with Mojo Black Cat Bone reaching number two and the other number three for She can't Concentrate.

The CD went on to be played in over 50 internet radio stations and got close to 40,000 plays and downloads combined on MP3.com alone. Though the advent of the digital music revolution was upon us and the Napster phenomenon was about to change the landscape of digital music distribution forever there were no legitimate distribution channels available just yet for established artists never mind strugling independents. It would take the RIAA and the subsequent shutting down of Napster along with all the copycats and countless lawsuits to lead us to where we are today with all the ubiquitous online stores currently available. After the demise of MP3.com and it's subsequent sale first to Ziff-Davis Publishing and then to Vivendi International the CD along with the disbanding of my Band and the displacement of over 70,000 Bands that called MP3.com home my CD fell into obscurity disappearing from the internet until now. I'm glad to offer it here once again for your listening pleasure and available for download purcahse.

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