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Jerry Portnoy*
 Jerry
Portnoy
was
born in 1943 and grew up in the blues rich atmosphere of
Chicago
's famous Maxwell Street Market
during the golden age of Chicago Blues. He began his professional career
in the late 60's and since that time has performed, live and on television, to
more people in more places than any other blues harmonica player.
During a
career that includes six years as a member of the fabled
Muddy Waters Blues Band, another six
as leader of the
Legendary Blues Band,
four years at the head of his own band
The
Streamliners, and another four as a featured member of the
Eric Clapton Band, he has maintained
a constant touring schedule that has carried him to every state in the union
and twenty-five foreign countries on five continents, with performances at the
White House, Carnegie Hall, Radio City Music Hall,
the
Smithsonian,
London's
Royal Albert Hall,
and at major jazz festivals worldwide, including the
Newport Jazz Festival, the
Montreaux Jazz Festival, the
Warsaw International Jazz Jamboree,
the
Hawaii Pacific Jazz and Music Fair,
and the
Grande Parade du Jazz
in Nice, France.
He has
played on several Grammy Award winning albums while recording with a wide
variety of artists, and was a Grammy Award nominee in 1997 for his work with
the
Muddy Waters Tribute Band.
Television credits include appearances on
Saturday
Night Live, Soundstage, MTV, VH1, and the
Disney Channel, as well as writing
and performing original music for
Sesame Street
. In addition, he has lectured
at the
Berklee School of Music in Boston,
and his definitive 3/CD instructional package,
Jerry Portnoy's Blues Harmonica Masterclass, is widely
regarded as the premier teaching tool for those wishing to learn the
instrument. He now makes his home outside
Boston
,
Massachusetts
.
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