ELDRIDGE GRAVY & THE COURT SUPREME is a funk juggernaut. Backed by the hot, gritty orchestration of the 12 member Court Supreme, front man Eldridge Gravy easily works dance floors to a fever pitch with his full-bore performance and smooth rapport with the audience.
In 2024, the group released their fifth studio album titled ALWAYS NEVER NOT A GOOD TIME. The ten tracks here run the gamut from funk to disco-funk to down-n-dirty funk, and provide all the necessary raw materials for getting down. Recorded at the Funk Castle, mixed by Floyd Reitsma at Studio Litho.
Over the past few years EG&tCS have headlined practically every prestigious venue in Seattle and Portland, including Crocodile, Neumos, Tractor Tavern, Showbox, Doug Fir Lounge, and Star Theater. They have also ruthlessly funked thousands of festivalgoers at Bumbershoot, the Waterfront Blues Festival in Portland, July 4th at Gasworks Park, and Summer Meltdown.
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SUPER SECRET BAND is a mysterious, funky, jammin’, secret rock band from Portland, Oregon. Founded in the late 2010s, the band has been actively touring around the Pacific Northwest and beyond since 2022.
Their novel antiviral approach of being a “secret band” has only fueled their reputation.Their super secret sound morphs from psychedelic, to funk, to jam, to rock, to reggae, to jazz and back in a spacey journey throughout a typical set. According to the band they are perhaps best described as Psyop Rock or “some funky sh*t you’d wanna rage to at a festival late-night.”
Super Secret Band performs a mix of originals and secret covers live as a 6-9 piece band with Drums, Bass, Guitars, Keys, Horns and vocals.
Led by multi-instrumentalist and producer Brill Ritter, the band leans on the powerful funky rhythm section of Ryan Wykert on drums, Scot Cowherd on percussion, and Kody Kindhart on bass. Josh Wiley Marks plays guitar and fronts the band, and Evan Boller (aka “Boller Time”) plays lead guitar. Frequent guests trombonist Jeff Chilton, and Saxophonist/Floutist J.D. Erickson, of the Proof Horns, bring a fun energetic jazzy element to the band's diverse sound.
The band is built around a dynamic, funky, secret, yet respected core of artists and has featured a wide rotating cast of instrumentalists and vocalists from acts like Jay Si Proof, Lost Ox, Robokchoy, Sean McLean, Tyrone Hendrix, Monkh, Farnell Newton, Crystal Staley, Fox and Bones, Kebbi Williams, Laryssa Birdseye, and many more.
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Part time serious, full time funky. Jeff Chilton is Jay Si and the Proof is in the pudding.
JAY SI PROOF is an explosion of funk with unhinged, audacious, and joyous energy! There are no walls between performer and audience at a Jay Si Proof show, there are no boundaries between acquaintances, friends and strangers. Teetering between funk anthems, entirely improvised disco bangers, and sentimental lo-fi grooves, Jay Si Proof is as much an experience as it is a concert.
Jeff Chilton should have become a high school band director after graduating from Ithaca College in upstate NY. Instead he took an Amtrak train to Portland, OR with naught but a trombone at his side and an acoustic guitar on his back. Since then, Chilton has become a veteran of the music industry touring the world aboard Royal Caribbean ships, performing with Broken Social Scene's Pickathon performance, and adding his horn to Motown legends The Diamonds and The Platters. Chilton has toured the nation with psychedelic rockers Super Secret Band, performed at KEXP with Family Worship Center, written and recorded on countless PNW records (Coo Era, Family Mystic, Bodhi Mojo) and performed countless weddings, block parties, and festivals.
The soggy jazz soaked dirt of Portland proved creatively fertile for Chilton's original music and after meeting fellow dreamers Corey Heppner, Lucas James, and JD Erickson, Chilton took on the moniker Jay Si and created the musical organism Jay Si Proof. Since then, this entity has burst onto the music scene bringing its “silly and euphoric vibe” (Portland Mercury) up and down the west coast. With a voracious appetite for good times, Jay Si Proof cooks up the funkiest dishes where ever it goes. Described as "earth jazz alchemists" by Vortex Magazine, Jay Si Proof has been featured twice on PDX Pop Now, ranked in the Mercury's top music videos of 2024, and performed at Mojo Family Fest, Oregon Country Fair, UFO Festival and more. Every performance is explosive with horn battles, crowd inspired fully improvised songs, and "authentic messages of spirituality and collective prosperity (Rose City Review). Come enjoy the show and be a part of the PROOF!