About
Will Blades (born 1979) is a jazz organist from Chicago, currently living in the San Francisco Bay Area. Wil began playing drums at the age of 8, guitar at 13, and then found his true calling on Hammond B-3 at 19. While studying Jazz at New College of California with bassist Herbie Lewis, Wil landed weekly gigs at John Lee Hooker’s Boom Boom Room in San Francisco. Barely of legal age, veteran musicians, such as trumpeter Oscar Myers, took him under their wings. Read more on Last.fm
Genres
- salsa
- merengue
- son cubano