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Journeyman musician Allen Weber is another musician to emerge from Chicago’s music scene. At age 7 he learned to play piano. At age 11 he switched to trumpet. And at age 15 he finally moved to guitar, though he originally wanted to be a bass player after watching the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan show. As Weber put it “There were two guitars and only one bass, so I wanted to play bass.”

He played his first gig in a combo at age 16 for a school event and never looked back. Moving to small “hole in the wall” clubs he continued honing his musical chops, moving up the musical food chain to bigger name clubs, and small venue concerts, then on to tours in the USA and Asia including venues such as Chicago’s venerable Arie Crown Theater, and numerous recording sessions.

After moving to Hawaii in 1979 Weber formed a Country band playing at premier clubs in Honolulu and Waikiki, leaving in 1980 for LA Weber began doing some session work, and performed in several bands. Relocating again in the mid 1990’s to New York City Weber continued to do a bit of session work and performed in some bands, before stopping playing professionally for some time. Moving to Jacksonville Florida in 2000, Weber again picked up his musical career, and finally in 2012 formed a fusion band called Hot Shock which has performed at local Jacksonville area clubs and regional festivals.

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Distributor/Music Store Squidco.com Adds Allen Weber "Hot Shock" Album To Library

Distributor/Music Store Squidco.com Adds Allen Weber "Hot Shock" Album To Library

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From the desk and studio of Allen Weber Jacksonville, FL: The momentum is building around Jacksonville musician Allen Weber and his release of the Allen Weber Hot Shock album (CD and digital album) with it now in rotation on several UK radio stations, radio stations in the USA picking it up, and Allen Weber having just completed an interview with Christopher Bowie for his jazz radio show on WVUM (90.5 fm) in Miami. Now, Allen Weber has just signed a ...

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Allen Weber Signs Digital Distribution Agreement With The Jazz Box

Allen Weber Signs Digital Distribution Agreement With The Jazz Box

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Jacksonville FL — Hot of the heels of the Allen Weber Hot Shock album making it’s 88.5 fm radio debut on a jazz show hosted by Kenny MacKenzie, local Jacksonville musician and leader of Hot Shock Band, Allen Weber has just signed a digital distribution agreement with Canadian distributor TheJazzBox.ca who specializes in all genres of jazz. “I was contacted by Timothy Booth owner of TheJazzBox.ca who told me he was given my info by one of his industry sources,”, ...

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Guitarist Allen Weber Making Jazz Fusion Accessible

Guitarist Allen Weber Making Jazz Fusion Accessible

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Jacksonville FL – Sine the early 1970's when Miles Davis put out his album Bitch's Brew, John McLaughlin and Mahavishnu Orchestra released their hard fusion, Chick Corea released his jazz fusion saying the word “Jazz” makes most people shiver in fright. They have been afraid of the term “Jazz”. Their eyes glaze over, and they think the music is “over their heads”, “too sophisticated”, “you can't dance to it”. With the debut release by Allen Weber with his Hot Shock ...

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Allen Weber And His Band Hot Shock Finalizing Debut Album

Allen Weber And His Band Hot Shock Finalizing  Debut Album

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Jacksonville, FL: After months of planing, writing, and rehearsal, jazz fusion guitarist Allen Weber and his band Hot Shock have just finished recording the debut album. The recording was done in the storied Jacksonville FL studio Warehouse Studios—Ryan Turk engineered the recording. It is being mixed at“TrueTone Studios with Andrew Perlowich engineering the mixing. When asked to describe the music Weber said “You could describe our music this way: Jazz Fusion infused with Latin, Carribeo, Funk, Blues, R & B ...

Patrick Ross of The Rhythmic Lounge magazine said of Weber in an article “Allen Weber, a modern and contemporary musician who proudly upholds the jazz traditions of the past, present, and now future.”

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