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Gene Black

My name is Gene Black. I grew up in New Orleans, in a musical family. I play drums, and bass professionally, and some other instruments, very unprofessionally. A list of artists that I have worked for includes: Leon "Kid Chocolate" Brown, Ellis Marsalis, Delfeayo Marsalis, Charmaine Neville, Wendell Brunious, Leroy Jones, Derek Douget, Brice Winston, Maurice Brown, Andre Hayward, Kermit Ruffins, and some others.

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Ubiquity / Luv N' Haight to Release Eugene Blacknell "We Can't Life for Granted"

Ubiquity / Luv N' Haight to Release Eugene Blacknell "We Can't Life for Granted"

Source: All About Jazz

Oakland guitar ace Eugene Blacknell released multiple singles that ranged in style from raw R&B to power house funk. His musical career stretched from the early 1960s when as a talented and sharp dressed kid, he would become the youngest musician from the Bay Area to play the Apollo in New York, to the end of the 1980s when he died too young.

During that time he established himself as an East Bay original, an entrepreneur, and an activist. His ...

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Ubiquity/Luv N' Haight to Release "Eugene Blacknell (the Unreleased Album)"

Ubiquity/Luv N' Haight to Release "Eugene Blacknell (the Unreleased Album)"

Source: All About Jazz

Oakland guitar ace Eugene Blacknell released multiple singles that ranged in style from raw R&B to power house funk. His musical career stretched from the early 1960s when as a talented and sharp dressed kid, he would become the youngest musician from the Bay Area to play the Apollo in New York, to the end of the 1980s when he died too young.

During that time he established himself as an East Bay original, an entrepreneur, and an activist. His ...

Primary Instrument

Drums

Willing to teach

Beginner to advanced

Credentials/Background

I taught for 3 summers at the Crescent City Drum Camp, directed by Harold Brown (War), I also taught privately at a studio in New Orleans, as well as owning my own music school in Houston, TX during the year following hurricane katrina. I have taught every level from beginner to college students.

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