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Nigel Hall

Nigel Hall is a keyboardist, singer, and songwriter with a modern spin on virtually all manner of '70s R&B and jazz, especially soul, funk, and fusion. Although he has enjoyed his highest level of visibility with the Grammy-nominated Lettuce, the Washington, D.C.-born, New Orleans-based musician has a catalog as a leader and co-headliner that pre-dates his alliance with that funk band, beginning with The Face of Things to Come (2006) and extending to The Burning Bush: A Journey Through the Music of Earth, Wind & Fire (2024). Hall's considerable volume of session work includes contributions to Grammy-nominated recordings by Ledisi and Cha Wa, and Jon Cleary's Grammy-winning GoGo Juice. Remarkably versatile, Hall seemingly plays as many types of acoustic and electric pianos, organs, and analog synthesizers as inspirations like Herbie Hancock, George Duke, and Patrice Rushen, the latter two of whom have appeared on his recordings. Hall started playing keyboards during early childhood and built a foundation for his artistic approach as he absorbed his parents' music collection. Entirely self-taught, he joined his first band, Funkizon, while living in Maine, and hosted a program on the University of Maine's campus station, playing vintage jazz fusion records and interviewing some of his favorite musicians. An interview with George Duke proved to be especially informative and inspirational, and fed directly into his 2006 debut, The Face of Things to Come, a set that mixed originals with updates of '70s soul-jazz and jazz-funk classics by Duke, Freddie Hubbard, and Ronnie Laws. After the album's release, Hall established affiliations with Soulive and Lettuce. He was featured on the latter's Rage! (2008), fronted two songs on the former's Up Here (2009), and around the same time contributed keyboards to Ledisi's Grammy-nominated Turn Me Loose. Sideman work for Hall expanded over the next few years with the likes of Gov't Mule, Warren Haynes, and Talib Kweli. Having relocated to New Orleans, Hall co-founded Nth Power in 2012, remaining with the band until he opted to concentrate on his next solo move. In November 2015, he returned with Ladies & Gentlemen...Nigel Hall. Predominantly funky soul with a couple diversions rooted more in jazz, the album alternated from originals to covers of songs by Ann Peebles, the Isley Brothers, and Latimore, among others. Numerous Soulive and Lettuce associates were among the contributors, as were the likes of Bill Summers, Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson, and Ivan Neville. The same year, Hall joined Lettuce full-time and played on Jon Cleary's GoGo Juice, winner of Best Regional Roots Music Album at the 58th Annual Grammy Awards. Extensive activity with Lettuce and other artists continued throughout the back half of the 2010s. In addition to his main gig, Hall took part in sessions for albums such as Aaron Neville's Apache, Ghost-Note's Swagism, and Cha Wa's Grammy-nominated Spyboy, and he was part of guitarist John Notto's Nottovision, who released a self-titled EP in 2018. Lettuce's 2019 effort, Elevate, earned a Grammy nomination for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album. Early the next decade, Hall completed his third full-length, Spiritual, mixing original compositions with covers as usual, teaming with Butcher Brown's DJ Harrison for the blue-collar anthem "Gotta Go to Work," updating Greg Phillinganes' "Baby I Do Love You" -- with another influence, Patrice Rushen, featured on keyboards -- and ending with words of wisdom from George Duke. Spiritual also contained a cover of "Caribou" by Earth, Wind & Fire, the subject of Hall's next studio album. Hall and Harrison got together again to record The Burning Bush: A Journey Through the Music of Earth, Wind & Fire, the majority of which drew from the band's mid-'70s work with Charles Stepney.
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