FRANK ROSZAK      

For many years now, Frank Roszak has been deeply involved in the music industry whether producing, engineering, promoting, or handling various other important responsibilities that serve musicians well.

Frank recently completed a productive six year association with Delta Groove Records and its ancillary label Eclecto Groove Records as their Director of Radio Promotion & Marketing (Press). In that position, Frank succeeded in connecting the labels’ recording artists with radio and satellite stations throughout North America and Europe. Some of these blues, soul, or R&B musicians are Elvin Bishop, Cedric Burnside & Lightnin’ Malcolm, Bob Corritore, Candye Kane, Mitch Kashmar, The Mannish Boys, Rod Piazza, Ana Popovic, Phillip Walker, and Mike Zitto. Frank’s efforts have been rewarded with extensive airplay of these musicians’ albums, as evidenced by their placements on the Billboard, Living Blues, and Roots Music Report charts, etc.

Of late, Frank has been giving boosts to the careers of Pete Anderson, Big Shanty, Kaye Bohler, The 44s, Marion James, Barry Levenson, J. P. Soars, Tweed Funk, Brad Vickers, Seth Walker, and other talented roots and blues artists.

Looking back, Frank’s production and engineering credits are extensive. Among his many clients were The Baha Men, Stanley Clarke, Bill Medley, Pet Shop Boys, and The Temptations. He has won a number of gold, platinum and multi-platinum records.


KEN BAYS  

Ken Bays was an editor and writer at the internationally distributed Blues Revue magazine for 12 years. His stories on then-emerging artists such as Shemekia Copeland, North Mississippi Allstars, Janiva Magness, the Grammy-nominated Susan Tedeschi, and numerous others helped introduce them to the world at large, and his cover stories on legendary acts such as Robert Cray, Buddy Guy, Curtis Salgado, and Stevie Ray Vaughan's famed rhythm section, Double Trouble, were highlights of his writing career. Ken served as Blues Revue's managing editor from 2005 to 2010, during which time the magazine reached some of the highest newsstand sell-through percentages in its history. The culmination of his career at Blues Revue was a special issue dedicated to the 25 best blues albums of the first decade of the 21st century, assembled by polling professional blues journalists nationwide. Ken has also written for All Music Guide's web site and books, as well as About.com, American Songwriter, Dirty Linen, Performing Songwriter, and other print and online outlets. In 2008, he assembled and produced the compilation album "Rich Man's War," released on Ruf Records and nominated by the Blues Foundation for a Blues Music Award, chronicling blues and roots songs written in protest of the war in Iraq. Ken also hosted a show called "Ridin' The Blinds" on XM satellite radio's blues channel for five years.


KAYKAY JAGGER  

KayKay Jagger has been involved in the marketing and support of musicians most of her life beginning back in 1975 when she was a merch girl for California's Premier Blues/Party Band, Rogue Moon. Her abilities were easily recognized so she was quickly asked to manage the booking and promotions activities for Rogue Moon from 1975-1996. Beginning in 1996, Locally acclaimed blues band, The Tone Daddy's featuring the late, great renowned bluesman DeWayne Toney, brought KayKay in to manage booking and promotions until the bands' retirement in 2009. During that time KayKay's abilities and moxie became well-recognized as she was employed to book and promote many acts including Lil' Mike and the Blues Hammers, The Left Coast Groovies, Deedra Patrick and The Swamp Katz, Blonde Faith, Tanner Byrom, Zen Road Pilots, Bunky Spurling, Robert Heft Band, Alastair Greene, and Shari Pourto Band, to name just a few. In 2010 Rip Cat Records caught notice of KayKay's talents and set her to the task of increasing the recognition of their label which includes Whiteboy James and The Blues Express, K.K. Martin, The 44's, and Gino Matteo. KayKay often puts her talents to work for charitable causes. In 2010 she partnered in the development of The 2010 Tehachapi Ca. Fire Victims Benefit. In 2011 KayKay initiated the development of and joined forces with Funds For Freedom, Inc. and Orion Sanders to hold the first annual Kern River Rock N Blues Fest benefitting The Bakersfield, Ca. National Veteran's Cemetery, a sold-out success! KayKay's talents and abilities are many, her personality, endearing and her enthusiasm, infectious.


FRANK-JOHN HADLEY  

Frank-John Hadley has been writing about blues, r&b, soul, gospel, jazz, and other musical styles in the international music press since the 1980s. He writes the monthly Blues column at DownBeat Magazine, where he has contributed many hundreds of feature articles, album, film, and book reviews, album-review columns, obituaries, and news stories. His DB cover stories on B. B. King and Buddy Guy and Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi helped him earn the Blues Foundation award for Journalism. Frank’s work has also appeared in the Boston Globe, the Boston Phoenix, the Miami New Times, the Houston Press, Jazziz, Living Blues, Experience Hendrix, Pulse! and other publications. He is a Grove Press author. Among the many musicians whom Frank has supplied with liner notes or publicity writing: Junior Wells, Mighty Sam McClain,  Nick Moss, Hot Tuna,  Jimmy McGriff, Hank Crawford, Blood Ulmer and Robert Jr. Lockwood.


 

     

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