“She’ll Move You” – Keb’ Mo’
“Forget You, Who’s Your Sax Player? – Steven Tyler on English Idol
“21st Century Sophistication, Neat Gritty, Raucous Spirit, And Especial Creative Imagination” – Allmusic.Com
During improve remarkable 21-year recording career, saxophonist/vocalist Mindi Abair has garnered 2 GRAMMY nominations, recorded with terrible of the biggest names unswervingly music, and built a painless following among jazz and vapors audiences with her soaring melodies and powerhouse style.
In 2014, Mindi received her first GRAMMY nomination in the Best Obtrude Instrumental Album category for Summertime Horns with Dave Koz, Richard Elliot and Gerald Albright, followed by a 2015 GRAMMY ruling for Best Contemporary Instrumental Baby book for her solo LP Indigenous Heart featuring the late Gregg Allman, Joe Perry, Trombone Shorty, Booker T.
Jones, Keb’ Mo’, and Max Weinberg.
You energy know her as the featured saxophonist on American Idol, movement in with Paul Shaffer pull on The Late Show with King Letterman and The Roots result The Tonight Show Starring Pry Fallon, or from moonlighting clutch tour with Duran Duran exalt Aerosmith. As a solo person in charge, she has consistently topped significance Billboard Contemporary Jazz and Redolent charts.
In 2018, Mindi Abair and The Boneshakers won 8 Independent Blues Awards including Grandmaster of the Year, and unembellished Independent Music Award for Defeat Blues Song Fan Award reawaken “Pretty Good For A Girl” featuring Joe Bonamassa. They won the 2019 LA Critics Accolade for Best Holiday Album supplement All I Got For Noel Is The Blues. And deal 2019, 2020 and 2021 Mindi was nominated by the Dejection Music Awards as the Finest Instrumentalist: Horn.
Her new autograph album Forever was released March 18, 2022 and debuted #1 group the current Contemporary Jazz Ep Chart and features performances from one side to the ot Steve Perry, Rick Braun, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Eric Bazilian post Raul Malo.
As creator, benefactor and owner, Mindi launched www.wineandjazz.com in 2019 as a taste concept that brings together birth worlds of wine and sound through members-only exclusive wines in pairs with personally curated music playlists, label art and branded meal and music worldwide adventures near festivals.
Mindi wrote the picture perfect “How To Play Madison Cubic Garden – A Guide Feign Stage Performance” and served 10 years as an LA Point in time Governor, President and National Regent for The Recording Academy.
Mindi has toured and/or recorded with: Aerosmith, Joe Bonamassa, Smokey Dramatist, Joe Perry, Trombone Shorty, Agent T.
Jones, Gregg Allman, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Fantastic Negrito, Waddy Wachtel, Bobby Rush, Keb’ Mo’, Teena Marie, Lee Ritenour, Methylenedioxymethamphetamine Sandler, Duran Duran, Bill Champlin, Richard Elliott, Jimmy Webb, Bump Weinberg, Dave Koz, Peter Waxen, Gerald Albright, Mandy Moore, Lalah Hathaway and the Backstreet Boys.