Doc Chanonhouse is the band’s trumpet player and vocalist. He played with Rock and Roll Hall of Famers Bo Diddley and Laverne Baker in the 90’s. He has spent many years leading and/or arranging horn sections with the Bobby Watson Band, The Linemen (a band sponsored by the Bose Corporation), The Knickerbocker All Stars of Rhode Island and Ricky “King” Russell. He is leader and arranger for The Cadillac Horns, his group of horn players, which can be heard on many New England recordings. He has recently appeared with James Montgomery, Willie J. Laws, Parker Wheeler’s Blues Party, The Love Dogs and Roomful of Blues.
He has been a trumpet player and vocalist in small groups for many years and now has joined with three of his favorite musicians to form the Gulfstream Quartet, performing some of the best popular songs of the twentieth century in a fresh and melodically evocative style..
Guitarist Binney Stone is a renowned Boston area musician. He has performed and recorded with many illustrious musicians in varied musical genres, including Dizzy Gillespie, Sam and Dave, Leslie Gore, Stan Strickland, D. Sharpe, Bill Frisell and James Montgomery to name a few. He is accomplished in many styles of music and is recognized as a highly intuitive and responsive accompanist and a creative and melodic soloist..
Drummer Marty Richards is nationally known as a "go-to" player for any setting. His innate sense of swing and unerring sense of time have graced hundreds of stages and one hundred fifty recordings, behind a list of artists that reads like a "who's who" of American popular music. After Berklee College of Music, his professional career launched with a 10-year stint in the Gary Burton Quintet, He has performed and recorded since with many jazz, rock and blues acts including Duke Robillard, Joe Perry Project, J. Geils Band, Pete Francis, James Montgomery Band, Airborne, Peter Wolf, James Cotton, Jay McShann, Jimmy Witherspoon, The Blues Brothers, The Peter Malick Group featuring Norah Jones, John Hammond, Johnny A, Kim Wilson, Dizzy Gillespie, Benny Carter, Makoto Ozone, and Tommy Flanagan. In 2015 he was inducted into the RI Music Hall of Fame, and was recently recognized by Zildjian for his 30 year association with the brand.
Marty Ballou is the bass player in the band. Coming up through the ranks in the final decades of the 20th century, Marty Ballou kept an open mind and opened his ears to the joys and possibilities of every musical opportunity which presented itself to the young bassist. He became equally adept on the upright bass violin and the electric bass guitar and his massive body of work, in the studio and on the stage, stands him alongside the all-time greats on both instruments. Marty is at the top of the list of New England’s “first-call” bassists. Highly regarded nationally for his work in the jazz and blues fields, he is equally at home in other genres including folk, rock, pop and Americana.
He has performed and recorded with a long list of national and international musical groups, including the vocal jazz group The Ritz (formerly Puttin’ On The Ritz), legendary trumpet and flugelhorn player Clark Terry, John Hammond, Peter Wolf, Roomful of Blues and The Duke Robillard Band. Like his rhythm section counterpart, drummer Marty Richards, he was inducted into the RI Music Hall of Fame in 2015..
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