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Mo Pleasure Band at 606 Club

Courtesy of Laura G Thorne | Posted on June 14, 2017

Where

606 Club
90 Lots Road
London
Map
+44 020 7352 5953

When

Wed, June 28, 2017
20:30

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Musicians

About

One of the greatest keyboard players and multi-instrumentalists of his generation Morris "Mo" Pleasure has been at the forefront of American popular music for the last 30 years. A child prodigy, he began on piano at the age of 4 and by his early teens was also performing on bass, trumpet, guitar, drums and violin! After gaining a BA in Music in the mid 80's, Mo began his professional career playing with Ray Charles before moving in to the studios, including work with the likes of George Duke, Natalie Cole, Dianne Reeves, Christina Aguilera, Michael McDonald, Chaka Khan, and Roberta Flack amongst many others. In 1993, he became a member of the legendary group Earth, Wind & Fire, ascending to become the band’s musical director from 1994-2001. He was featured with Janet Jackson, played keyboards and trumpet with Boney James and is currently MD for the iconic Bette Midler. Mo was also approached by Michael Jackson to play keyboards in Jackson's last touring band that was scheduled to perform in the late superstar’s historic 2009 comeback tour at London’s O2 Arena, which sadly never came to fruition. And if all that wasn't enough he is also a renowned composer and producer. You get the idea, he's pretty special. Now splitting his time between London and the States Mo has recently been performing, for fun, as a "sideman" here at the Club and in the process has quickly become part of our 606 musical "family". So it is with enormous pleasure that we welcome him to the Club tonight, appearing here as a leader of his own ensemble. He describes the music they will be playing as a selection of originals as well as his favourite classic funk, soul and groove songs and will feature a hand picked band of some of the finest musicians in the UK including Luke Smith-keyboards, Dan Reinstein-sax, Tommy Hill-guitar and Mark Mondesir-drums - and watch out for his Special Guests including upcoming UK singer Louise Golbey & US vocalist Ivy Chanel....

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