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Commercial: Personal Injury Hotline Feat.
Ahmad Ali
For Immediate Release:
Contact: Rick Eberle |
www.rickeberle.com
516-729-6872 | rick [AT]
rickeberleagency.com
Singer/Songwriter, Guitarist, and Radio Personality
Ahmad Ali
Brings His Eclectic Life In Music Full Circle
With Latest Double A Blues Band Release
“Standing on the Shoulders of the Blues”
From His Youthful Upbringing in Music to His Days with Premonition and
WUSB’s “Café Ali”, His Wide Ranging Talents Come Full-Circle With Latest
Double A Blues Band Release
March, 2018 (Long Island, NY) – With the hard hitting electric feel of
latest single “Riverhead” rounding out the gritty early
Chicago Blues style of their 2018 LP “Standing
on the Shoulders of the Blues”
- Singer/Songwriter/Guitarist
Ahmad Ali
and his Double A Blues Band have brought a refreshingly nostalgic
feeling back to the current blues scene. But for a jack-of-all trades
personality, rockin’ the blues isn’t the only thing he’s focused his
efforts on in a wide-spanning music and entertainment career!
Raised in a diverse community on Long Island, N.Y. Ahmad was exposed to
a wide variety of Soul and Jazz at home. The desire to play an
instrument started young. He would put rubber bands on shoe boxes and
try to make music, and as a child he would sing whatever was on the
radio with the family. His Mom sang with choirs in her youth, and his
Dad would play Drums with his Uncles, ‘The Mitchell- Airs’. Both of
Ali’s Grandfathers were musicians, his Mother’s Dad played keyboards,
among other instruments, and his Father’s Dad played valve trombone, but
passed away at an early age (Poisoned by a jealous Woman).
WATCH: “Riverhead” Official Video by the Double A
Blues Band
The family loved music, with some of Ahmad’s fondest memories being that
of seeing greats at the Apollo, and singing La La Means "I Love You" to
his mother, as Eddie O-Jay played it on the radio. In middle School and
Jr. High he sang with the school Chorus, but later as a teen his desire
to play guitar was strong. He had to wait till he got a job to buy his
first guitar, but months later his mom seeing his desire and commitment
lead her to buy him an electric guitar. A year and a half later he was
playing in night clubs with some of Long Island’s top party bands. Music
being music - he even played for local churches. As time moved on he
continued performing, being featured on TV when Eyewitness News 7 in New
York ran a story on a group he worked with, called “Premonition”
about a con man who had ripped them off. They filmed the group and set
them up with a recording session with legendary producer Don Kirschner
at his Associated Studios in Manhattan, but as things didn’t pan with
that group he found himself working with a hand full of other rock
bands.
For Full List of Upcoming Double A Blues Band
Shows, CLICK HERE
Following a ten year respite in his late twenties where he laid his
guitar down and started a family, he ran into an old friend from
Premonition, and began playing with the group again. Their rhythm
section backed up all kinds of artist doing several styles of music from
classic oldies Club music, Caribbean music, and more. This work led to
more for Ali, like being tapped as stage manager for Protocol when they
opened up for Will Downing at the Paramount theatre, meeting and working
with Soul 4 Real as their musical director on their tour of London,
Amsterdam, Bulawayo and Harare in Zimbabwe, and doubling as Road manager
for their back up band- Blusyde. He even had the honor of playing on
Soul 4 Real’s album “Heat” when the opportunity to work in the
award winning Perfect Pair Studios (adorned with gold and platinum
plaques and Grammys from artist like Lauryn Hill, Biggie Smalls and many
more) came calling. He also worked with the Blackwood Band and James
Brown Impersonator “Black Velvet” (AKA Daptone recording artist, Charles
Bradley), and has since been working with various local groups like The
Gordon Hurley Big Band, Blues States, Jazz on the Half Shell, Island
Jazz Express, Snap, The Ahmad Ali Trio, and more.
His love for Radio and community activism came to fruition in his work
at WBAI 99.5 FM in NY and streaming at WBAI .org where he was heard for
over 13 years, and you can now hear his show “Café Ali” on
alternating Friday mornings on WUSB Stony Brook, 90.1fm and streaming at
www.WUSB.fm.
The Double A Band is His main Focus now. Bringing their sound to the
world is the Mission!
For More on Ahmad Ali, VISIT:
www.AhmadAliMusic.com
Facebook.com/DoubleABlues
To Purchase the Double A Blues Band’s “Standing on the Shoulders of the
Blues” via CD Baby, VISIT:
http://bit.ly/2oUZcQb
For Press Inquiries, CONTACT:
Rick [AT] RickEberleAgency.com
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