Rue & Sabien play Rue & Sabien
Original jazz, blues, pop and Americana
Randy Sabien - "is the past, present and future of jazz violin."
~Jazz Profiles, National Public Radio
"From the opener on, Rue's music sets sharp hooks."
~San Francisco Examiner
Gary Rue (guitar, piano and voice): Columbia Records recording artist, composer/lyricist/performer, songs recorded by Helen Reddy and Nick Lowe, The Mavericks, Honeydogs, and local/regional artists Robert Robinson, Prudence Johnson, Butch Thompson, Pat Donohue, Debbie Duncan, Rio Nido, Mary Jane Alm, The Rose Ensemble, Willie Murphy, Leslie Ball, Dan Chouinard, Maria Jette and of course, Randy Sabien. He is well known to audiences for his work with Gene Pitney, Buddy Holly's Crickets and Rue Nouveau. and is a 2010 MN Music Hall of Fame inductee.
“…vibrant, catchy, exciting melodies.” ~ (San Francisco) Bay Area Express
“…these songs are a clear cut above the usual…each one features at least one major-league moment, phrase or hook…”
~ Minneapolis Star Tribune
Randy Sabien (guitar, violin, mando, piano, and voice)describes his sound as “Bob Wills (Western swing) meets Art Blakey (be-bop) meets the Allman Brothers (blues rock).” You can expect to hear classic Western swing tunes such as “Maiden’s Prayer,” an instrumental version of a Grateful Dead song, “Stella Blue,” or a swinging Duke Ellington tune, “Mr. Gentle and Mr. Cool.” Sabien has toured the planet playing in different styles and with many greats of the music world.
“Rather than simply embellish a tune, he re-conceives it, building and developing intriguing new musical motifs along the way . . . his playing couldn’t help but bring a smile to virtually every face in the room.”
~The Chicago Tribune
“Jazz Profiles” of NPR dubbed him “The past, present and future of jazz violin.”
“Jazz Profiles” , National Public Radio
About the Performance
A Rue/Sabien performance is an ad lib, rapid-fire affair, riddled with a melodic cascade of personally-penned favorites peppered with musical ideas (occasionally interrupted by an errant thought: they sometimes feel the need to explain the process), duologues on inspiration (and what does not inspire), oblique social commentary, and comic highs and lows (when good things happen to bad people), all thoroughly plumbed from the musical depths of piano, guitar, violin, mando and voices that soar, growl and bubble within a sardonic Robin Williams/Noel Coward sense of humor. Influenced by nearly anything and everything musical.
Buckle up!~Charles Bunbury