British blues legend and pioneer Victor Brox has been described by Jimi Hendrix and Tina Turner as their favourite white blues singer and his list of collaborations reads like a who's who of the blues, rock and classic British popular music. He has played with legends such as Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Ritchie Blackmore and Ian Gillian (Deep Purple), Charlie Mingus, Noel Redding (Jimi Hendrix), Memphis Slim, Dr. John, Keith Moon (The Who), and studied under blues pioneers such as Big Bill Broonzy, Bo Diddley, Brownie McGhee, Sonny Boy Williamson, Little Walter and Screaming Jay Hawkins.
Other internationally acclaimed artist Victor has worked with include Alexis Korner, Ainsley Dunbar, Bill Coleman, Lord David Sutch, Tete Montelieu, T.T.Swanston, Marzetta Watts and Nico.
Brox has also appeared and performed in the Tim Rice & Andrew Lloyd Webber original "Jesus Christ, Superstar" with Deep Purple (click here for more info) and one of his Ainsley Dunbar Retaliation albums was produced by fellow pioneer John Mayall.
"Victor
Brox is one of Britain's greatest ever blues vocalists ranking alongside the
likes of Chris Youlden, Joe Cocker and Steve Marriot at their best. This has
been endorsed by Jimi Hendrix who was a great fan of Victor jamming and playing
with him and the Ainsley Dunbar Retaliation on many occasions."
Barrel
House Blues Club (UK)
More informatioin on Victor Brox from Blues at Bridgetown 2000
What Victor Brox says about the ublues band
This lively outfit, born of a chance meeting in Perth between Singapore-based Danny Loong & Trevor Jalla, boasts a uniquely infectious approach to music normally associated with the Mississippi Delta and Chicago. The sheer enthusiasm the band generates in audiences would be hard to match in Europe and the U.S.A., let alone Australia and Asia.
The two aforementioned highly talented and go-ahead young men ably backed by their stalwart rhythm section attract admirers as though they were playing a brand new and hitherto unheard sound, which in a sense they are when you consider that fifteen of the seventeen numbers on their excellent " Get On The Blues Train" CD are self-penned. The boys are not averse to lacing their blues with humour-listen to "Talk To The Hand" and "I Can't Cook" if you want good examples of this engaging trait but it must be emphasised that the humour is never a substitute for the lack of musical ability.
Instrumentally the band is very strong with Trevor an obvious blues guitar hero in the classic post-B.B.King tradition and Danny is a fine multi-instrumentalist with an incandescent swinging organ touch but no slouch on piano, guitar and harmonica too. In fact one of the most exhilarating facets of thier multifarious repertoire happens when these two musical stars engage in cut-and-thrust dueling "conversations" demonstrating nicely contrasting but equally valid guitar styles-and of course this never fails to set the audience alight. Having said that, perhaps the bands greatest strength lies in the superb natural singing of Trevor Jalla. It is indeed a real pleasure to encounter an Asian University student who has mastered the difficult art of blues singing with such obvious conviction and startling aplomb.
The originality and verve of this young outfit of huge potential stem from Trevor's highly accomplished and enjoyable vocals and I expect to see the universal blues band riding high on their "blues train" for many years to come. The world needs a new slant on the blues in the twenty first century and that's a "universal" truth. - Victor Brox, June 2001.