21 Blue will take you from Louis Armstrong to Howlin’ Wolf to Miles Davis to Jimi Hendrix and beyond. This group does what no other group can in terms of playing the history of American music and making you love the fact that you are there to dance to it. Longineu Parsons has been hailed by critics internationally as being one of the world’s finest trumpet players and has performed and recorded with such greats as Cab Calloway, Sun Ra, Nat Adderley, Cecil Taylor, Nancy Wilson, Philly Joe Jones and many others. Internationally renowned guitarist Ted Shumate has performed and/or recorded with artists including Branford Marsalis, Kenny Werner, Jeff Berlin, Al DiMeola, Sonny Fortune, Peter Erskine, Wynton Marsalis, Red Rodney, Nat Adderley, and others.
Dr. Longineu Parsons II is Professor of Music at Florida A&M University and is President of Tribal Disorder Records. Listen to them at https://tribaldisorder.bandcamp.com/album/21-blue