Phil Guy & Dario Lombardo Blues Gang - Working Together (1999) [CD Rip]

The Blues Gang Dario Lombardo was born in 1989 after the final dissolution of the main formation of the Model-T Boogie Giancarlo Crea, group of which Lombardo was part.

After a period in which several instrumentalists succeed each other in the group, the formation settles around a nucleus of Genoese musicians formed by the bassist Marco Messeri, by the drummer Maurizio Borgia and by the saxophonist Andrea "Andy" Romeo. Dario Lombardo will bring two other permanent members of the group from Turin, keyboardist Alberto Marsico and saxophonist Davide Dal Pozzolo. The Milanese guitarist Marco Vintani, unfortunately not present in the French tour during which the recordings of "Working together" were made, will complete the line-up of the period 1990-1993. Those three years were full of concerts and tours in France, Switzerland and Germany, as well as of course in Italy, where the group participated in the most famous Blues Festivals. 1993 led to a new lineup change, mainly due to the need to tour a smaller band. Everyone found their own way, some, like Messeri, Borgia or Dal Pozzolo, working as shift workers for the groups of the Feeling Good agency in Milan, others, like Marsico, looking for new spaces as a soloist and author. The Blues Gang changed formation once again, and after the ritual experiments the The group has now settled down since 1995, bringing together two of his old Model-T companions, bassist Massimo Pavin and drummer Massimo Bertagna, around Dario Lombardo, with the addition of rhythm guitarist Andrea Preto and harmonica player Andrea Scagliarini. This is the current Blues Gang, the one you can listen to both on record ("I don't want 2 lose", Jazzmobile Records), and in concert. Alongside the collaboration with Phil Guy, which continues regularly, Dario Lombardo also combines other international experiences, the last of which saw the Turin guitarist and his band on tour with bassist and guitarist Dave Myers, a very prominent exponent of the Chicago Blues.