This page was updated on 02/14/24

Hi Everyone,here we are at WINTER 2024 please Stay Safe & Healthy. I have been working from Home with Online Teaching, Recording, Lessons and Live Stream Concerts. I will Try and update you here on Live Shows. Love & Peace...Rob

Since CD Baby closed You can now purchase my CD's here on my Website as well as Hire me to Record remotely or sign up for Online Lessons via Zoom, Facetime or Skype. Unfortunately, my Custom Hohner "Big River" Signature Harmonicas are SOLD OUT for now.

New Jersey-based frontman, singer, & harmonica player Rob Paparozzi has been a blues performer since 1967. But Rob is far from being strictly a blues musician. In fact, he's at home playing a wide range of music, ranging from rock to blues to jazz to pop. This versatility is reflected in the long and remarkably diverse list of major artists Rob has worked with, including B.B.King, Dr. John, Bruce Springsteen, Whitney Houston, Carole King, Roberta Flack, Culture Club, Cyndi Lauper, Randy Newman, Jimmy McGriff, and James Galway.

Rob has toured the world with the “Original Blues Brothers Band”, featuring guitar legend Steve Cropper and special guest Eddie Floyd and also as Frontman-Lead Singer for the Legendary "Blood Sweat and Tears"

Rob is now accepting Booking from SOLO to 10 Piece Band for PAPAROZZI's JUKE JOINT a retrospevtive of Rob's whole career. Contact Rob at the email on the bottom of this page for a breakdown and price quote of a Juke Joint Show to fit your venue's needs

More CD Reviews and Press releases!

“Please take the time to listen to Rob’s new album. I’m positive you will be amazed if you have not heard him before.”

--Steve Cropper (Booker T. & the MGs, original Blues Brothers Band)

“Rob’s CD sounds amazing and his performances are over-the-top killing!”

--Will Lee (David Letterman, Fab Faux)

Frank-John Hadley

Writer:Downbeat,Grove Press writes:


Native New Yorker Rob Paparozzi is a special artist who sings and plays harmonica with just the right blend of verve and empathy on his first feature album Etruscan Soul—now available on the Honeydripper Records label. The front man with the legendary, globetrotting, Blood, Sweat & Tears and the popular Tri-State area Hudson River Rats is joined on this swinging and intelligent rock-blues-soul-jazz-r&b release by world-class talent. The supporting vocalists are the one-and-only Phoebe Snow, Vanesse Thomas, and Antonique Smith. Among the stellar sideman are guitarists Leo Nocentelli (from the Meters), Chuck Rainey, Hugh McCracken, and George Naha; bassists Harvey Brooks and Will Lee; keyboardists John Korba and Ed Alstrom; and drummers Bernard “Pretty” Purdie, Chris Parker, and Shawn Pelton. Paparozzi says in the liner notes that these “skilled musicians help me paint the muse deep inside my ‘Etruscan Soul’.” It’s way more than a snappy album title. The phrase is defined throughout the 15 songs of the recording by the depth and clarity of the man’s singing and his harmonica playing. The special you-know-it-when-you-hear-it spirit—yes, Etruscan Soul—that motors Paparozzi’s music traces back many centuries to his family’s origins in ancient Etruria, the west-central Italian country whose great civilization was eclipsed by Rome in the third century B. C. Talk about good genes. Combining soulfulness and musical imagination, Paparozzi exhibits a natural ability to personalize songs that rate among his all-time favorites. He has chosen carefully from the treasure-troves of classic pop, rock, blues-rock, and jazz: the Beatles’ “Ticket To Ride,” Cream’s “Strange Brew,” Stephen Stills’ “Love the One You’re With,” Randy Newman’s “I Think It’s Going To Rain Today,” Sting’s “She’s Too Good for Me,” Steely Dan’s “Peg,” and Elton John & Bernie Taupin’s “Border Song.” The man knows his way around top-grade blues and r&b songbooks too, revamping in his distinctive way Delbert McClinton’s “Monkey Around,” Keb’ Mo’’s “Keep It Simple,” Allen Toussaint’s “I’m Gone,” Little Willie John’s “Let Them Talk,” Arthur Adams’s “Love and Peace” (covered years back by Quincy Jones, the Jazz Crusaders, etc.) and the standard “Peg O’ My Heart.” There’s also a fresh, inventive arrangement of the Quincy Jones film soundtrack number that Ray Charles interpreted so stirringly, “In the Heat of the Night,” plus the jazz chestnut “Body and Soul.”

http://njjazzlist.com/



Rob is Back at Shanghai

Shanghai Jazz Website

Fri 2/23/24 : 2 Shows

Fri 4/26/24 : 2 Shows

call (973) 822-2899

for Resv.


Live Dates so far in 2024


02/23 Rob's Quartet @ Shanghai Jazz Madison,NJ

02/27 Rob & Rich DiPaolo 16 Prospect Westfield,NJ

04/05 Rob with UCF Big Band in Orlando, FL

04/26 Rob's Quartet @ Shanghai Jazz Madison,NJ

06/02 Rob & B.Purdie @ Billboard Live TOKYO, Japan

06/04 Rob & B.Purdie @ Billboard YOKOHAMA, Japan

06/06 Rob & B.Purdie @ Billboard Live OSAKA, Japan


Study Harp w/Rob Remote or in Person:

Lessons


One on One in Somerset County, NJ or SKYPE/Facetime!

$100 for a 60 Min Lesson (Payments are Via Paypal also Venmo or Zelle)

Choice of Lessons

Now some quotes on Rob:

(Paparozzi's Juke Joint)


"Rob Paparozzi is one of the most lively and entertaining performers I Know. He can sing anything and he does...Blues, Rhythm and Blues, Rock and Roll, Jazz. He'll even Croon!"....

-Michael Bourne, WBGO 88.3 FM, Downbeat Magazine

"Thank You for your magnificent contributions. We are so glad to have you and your Harmonica in our Orchestra at The Will Rogers Follies on Broadway!..."

-Cy Coleman, Legenday Songwriter

"Rob, thank you for helping me on my recording and a great Solo! Can't wait to do it again."

-Ben E. King, Singer/Songwriter

"Rock and Roll is a combination ofPoetic Talent, Energy and Expolration. My Cousin Rob has and does it all. He is Amazing!"...

-Bruce "Cousin Brucie" Morrow (WABC-AM, Sirius Radio)

"Rob, thanks for joining us on our VH-1 Storytellers Documentary. I love the way you play Mouth Organ."

-Boy George, Culture Club

"Rob Paparozzi is the consummate musician, singer and entertainer. His energy is contagious to all who work with him. I'm proud to have shared the stage with Rob and honored to call him my friend"

-Steve Katz, Co-founder Blood Sweat and Tears, The Blues Project

"I've had the pleasure and honor of working with Rob for many, many years. And, a more talented, tasteful and sensitive player I have rarely encountered. Add to that, and probably for me most importantly, the friendship we've developed over those years. A finer person (and Musician) is not to be found."

-L Leon Pendarvis Music Director/Conductor @ SNL/NBC 30 Rockefellar Ctr. NYC

"Rob Jamming with Les Paul in NYC"




Hire Rob to SING or Play

Harmonica on your

Recording Project

To Book Rob for a Remote Recording

Rob & Ed Palermo's

ELECTRIC BUTTER

CD is here!...
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Order Now
on Paypal below with Special Guests:

Steve Cropper

Jimmy Vivino

Harvey Brooks

Mark Naftalin

To book ELECTRIC BUTTER email Rob at Booking Inquiries

ELECTRIC BUTTER CD

USA orders only!

How Many CD's

Rob's 2009 Grammy Nominated CD with many special guests! (Duet with Phoebe Snow):

Rob Paparozzi's

ETRUSCAN SOUL CD

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How Many Cds?

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JUKE JOINT PROMO Teaser



Chromatic: OVERJOYED



Rob with Randy Newman at The Kennedy Center



Rob's Famous "Take it Off" AD for SCOTCH BLUE Tape



Rob on Letterman backing GEORGE JONES



Rob with Dolly Parton on Conan O'Brien Late Night





Rob's LIVE Broadway Duet with Bernadette Peters

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