Jive Train was solidified in January 2002 in Baton Rouge, LA brining together musicians from different backgrounds but sharing one dream. Each of Jive Train's members brought with them a love for soul, R&B, and funk music. Kevin Schexnayder (lead v [+]Jive Train was solidified in January 2002 in Baton Rouge, LA brining together musicians from different backgrounds but sharing one dream. Each of Jive Train's members brought with them a love for soul, R&B, and funk music. Kevin Schexnayder (lead vocals), Russ Bryant (saxophone), Brett Smith (drums), Dave Starns (bass), and Ian Webster (guitar), form the core of the group and additional musicians are added to each show to fill out this funky show band.
Together these men formed a sound that immediately grabbed the interest of audiences everywhere. Within their first year Jive Train established themselves as a powerful regional touring band in the southeast on the college and club circuits. Jive Train's travels have already taken them to performing in seven states and their debut demo CD is already receiving airplay in the U.S., England, Japan, and Australia.
Jive Train has shared the stage with many well known performers including the Temptations, Rockin' Doopsie, Jr, and Charmaine Neville. Jive Train is happy to be sponsored by Budweiser, the king of Beers.
Terms like "funk" and "soul" are overused these days. Here in the still-diapered 21st Century, anyone with a computer can program a "funky" rhythm, maybe one so funky that no human could actually perform it. Countless artists sample soul hits from the past and incorporate them into "new" songs, in an effort to cash in on some of the magic of those original performances. R&B music these days has polarized into two camps: one wants to simultaneously remind you how tough life is on the hip-hop, cracked-up streets and how much you should want all the money and cars the singer has made by contributing to the cracked-up streets. The other functions like Muzak music did for your parents: a soothing, mindless, "quiet-storm" stew of sensuality substituted for substance. With a few exceptions, today's R&B singers have replaced real expression with mere sex appeal and vocal gymnastics.
George Clinton defined funk as "the antithesis of everything sterile, one-dimensional, monochromatic, arrhythmic and otherwise against freedom of bodily expression in the known universe." He was onto something. Back in the day, when Sly Stone made a million dancing feet trample the artificial wall between R&B and Rock
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