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Big Walker & Blue Souls
Drummer James Bradley Jr.
At the age of three, JBJ's musical talents were being realized by his parents as they saw him retrieving pots and pans from the kitchen cabinet to perform on. Because they were performing musicians, they were able to give James support and teaching. James Bradley, Jr. was a child-drumming prodigy and at the age of four he was recognized as the worlds youngest professional drummer. Appearing on major television shows in the sixties such as "I've Got A Secret", "Steve Allen", "Jack Benny", "Art Link Letter", "Nat King Cole", "Hollywood Palace", and many others. And then a contract with Paramount Pictures, where JBJ played a part in the movie "Cool Hand Luke".
Developing from a Jazz and Blues background James began playing straight ahead Jazz with his mother in his very early teens. He completed his first National Tour in 1976 with Deniece Williams while still in high school. JBJ then travelled with the great Chuck Mangione from 1977 to 1981 boasting many gold records like the hit song "Feel So Good". After a short break in 1982 JBJ was doing musical workshops and clinics. James went on to create the group Urban Gypsy where he fussed Rock and Funk. Then he toured with R&B superstar Anita Baker 1986-87, legendary Pianist Joe Sample 1987-1988, and with R&B great Vocalist Jeffrey Osborne 1988-1989. In the nineties JBJ Dream. Bio: American bassist, composer, programmer, conceptualist and record producer Jair-Rohm Parker Wells has been a resident of Stockholm, Sweden since 1985, he is widely recognized as a highooked up with alternative rockers Mary's Danish, The Go Go's Gina Shock, The Beastie Boys, Slash, The JBJ EXP, Crazy Town and many others.
Jair-Rohm Parker Wells 
is an improvising musician . Curator of the MEETING series of festivals and developer of Loopadelica, a method of improvising with looping devices. Bassist with the improvising trio Decision hly individual voice on the electric bass guitar, Ashbory bass, Fichter electric double bass and acoustic bass guitar, he has also distinguished himself as a programmer and synthesist developing with Max/MSP,Csound and Java. As a record producer and composer he has collaborated with many of the more prominent names in the international art world such as Peter Kihlgård, Machine Gun, Lydia Grey, Johannes Bergmark, Daniel Carter, Magnus Alexanderson,Tony Bianco, Robert Musso, Elliott Sharp, Olaf Rupp and the legendary Finnish band Kra.
Olle Boson
Has played guitar for many bands through Scandinavia over the last 30 years. A strong creative guitar with a wide variety of stiles and has played with Big Walker and his band Blue Souls for eight years.
www.bigwalker.us bigwalker@bigwalker.us
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