The Black Italians Record a Live Album

Jimmy Vivino & the Black Italians got together for the first time in several years to record a live album at Levon Helm Studios for Blind Pig Records, which will be released on May 7, 2013.

Click on the image above for more info about and to ORDER this great new album (off site).

Click on the image above for photos from the show.

Click on the image above for a REVIEW and VIDEOS from the show.

The Music of the Band

Jimmy got together with Garth Hudson, Jim Weider, Randy Ciarlante, Byron Issacs and special guest Sister Maud Hudson and Amy Helm at the Tarrytown Music Hall on April 19, 2013 for a night of incredibly great and soulful music in a beautiful venue.

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The Mint

Here's some photos from February of 2013 shot by photographer Jim Steinfeldt. That guy at the keyboards is the Electric Flag's Barry Goldberg. (Photos Copyright © 2013 by Jim Steinfeldt. All rights reserved.)

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The New Rekooperators

The third iteration of the Rekooperators, now known as "The New Rekooperators," got together for for shows at the Iridium in August. Jimmy, Al Kooper and new members Jessie Williams and Mark Teixeira put on a great show of Rekooperator, Supersession, Dylan and The Band classics.

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Jimmy does Butterfield

For three nights in July, Jimmy performed with Gabriel Butterfield, the late Paul Butterfield's son, in a tribute to the man who brought Chicago blues to an entire generation of hippies.

Gabriel Butterfield is in the process of putting together a documentary about his father and a 25-minute preview was shown before the concert. In addition, there's a push to get Butterfield into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. I've been saying for years that both Butterfield and Bloomfield belong in the HOF.

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Click on the image below for a review from Elmore Magazine.

Jimmy Video Montage

Here's a montage of Jimmy performing with Felix Cabrera at the Turning Point in Piermont, NY. Thanks to Geremy Dubensky for the video. He has a website at Capture the Streets

Jimmy & Felix

Jimmy played again with Felix Cabrera at the Port Washington Polish Hall on Friday, March 23, 2011.
This was a great night of blues, rock 'n' roll, and r&b.

Prisoners of 2nd Avenue

Jimmy, John Conte and Rich Pagano played at the Hiro Ballroom on January 20th with special guest Catherine Russell.

Great Jimmy video interview

Here's a great interview from YouTube put together by Gibson Guitar. Jimmy talks about Mike Bloomfield, finding his own sound, the Fab Faux and his role on the Conan show(Posted 1/22/2012)

Jimmy and his Fender

Here's another great interview from YouTube with Jimmy talking about his Fender guitar (Posted 1/22/2012)

The Prisoners of 2nd Avenue at the HIRO Ballroom

The Prisoners of 2nd Avenue (Jimmy, Rich Pagano and John Conte) played an absolutely fabulous show tonight at the HIRO Ballroom. The fantastic Catherine Russell contributed guest vocals. Photos and more soon. But in the meantime, here's a YouTube video posted by Marc Millman of the band with guest vocalist Catherine Russell singing "Gimmie Shelter". (Posted 1/20/2012, video added 1/22/2012)

Jimmy & Felix

Jimmy played with Felix Cabrera at the Port Washington Polish Hall on Friday, December 2, 2011.
We were back in the 1950s and early 1960s and the joint was jumpin'! Great place if only because there's a dance floor.

Father & Sons

Jimmy played at MexiCali Blues in Teaneck, on Friday, August 19th with John Sebastian, the legendary Hubert Sumlin and a great cast of other musicians.
Terrific club and an amazing show.

Update: Just added Kay Cordtz's great review of the show.

The Prisoners of 2nd Avenue at B.B. King's (NYC) on August 5, 2011

Jimmy, Rich Pagano and John Conte got together again on August 5 at B.B. King's NYC. Click on the photo for lots more.

Is Jimmy going into Retail?

Seen in Forest Hills, NY

Jimmy Vivino with the Les Paul Trio at Iridium on April 25th

Photographer Salvatore Corso contributed these photos of Jimmy playing with the Les Paul Trio featuring guest Gene Cornish (of The Rascals) and other guests.

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The Prisoners of 2nd Avenue

Jimmy, Rich Pagano and John Conte got together on April 1 and 2 at the Bowery Electric. Here's photos from the April 1 gig. Click on the photo for lots more.

...and here's one from our friend Tony Ferrari:

Jimmy and Felix

The frequent-flyer miles king Jimmy Vivino came to New York on March 25th to play a killer set with Felix Cabrera at the beautiful Port Washington Public Library.

Click on the photo to see more great images from this reference show in how to play the blues.

Jimmy with Felix Cabrera on Nov. 19, 2010

Jimmy played with Felix Cabrera at The Turning Point.

Thanks to photographer Bernard Ente for this great moody shot of Jimmy from that show.

Jimmy with the Fab Faux at Queens College on Nov. 6 2010

After playing at Radio City Music Hall in September, the Faux returned to NYC to play their annual stint at Colden Auditorium at Queens College.

For more photos of the show and a setlist, click here for the Fab Faux at Queens College page.

Conan's Twitter Feed

Jimmy interview!!

Here's a great interview with Jimmy written by Christian Schaeffer of the (St. Louis) Riverfront Times.

Jimmy talks about Johnnie Johnson, Chuck Berry and the band for the new Conan show.

And here's a review of the September 19th benefit for Johnnie Be Good: the Movie.

A Twitter experiment...

Here's an experiment to see which Twitter feeds we can pick up about Jimmy. So far, it's mainly about Conan. Obviously, the Twitter audience is not exactly Jimmy's audience, but let's see what happens.
Note that there's a separate feed for the Fab Faux on the Fab Faux page.

Jimmy with Hubert Sumlin

Jimmy played with Hubert Sumlin on a "Rockin' the River" cruise during a beautiful New York summer night on August 19th. Thanks to photographer Frank Beacham for the photo.

Jimmy returns to New York again to play with Felix Cabrera

Jimmy played with Felix Cabrera on June 25th at the Turning Point in Piedmont, New York. Here's another fine photo taken by pro Bernard Ente, a frequent contributor to this site. We see Jimmy in a comtemplative mood.

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Jimmy and the Fab Faux performing Abbey Road live!

This is a really high-quality video of the Fab Faux performing most of side 2 (of the LP) of Abbey Road for the Howard Stern show at Sirius studios.

There are no overdubs whatsoever in this incredible performance. Each song was recorded in one to three takes. Only three minor guitar fixes were made. The videography and the sound mix is quite intimate and really gets you "in close" with the Faux.

Credits: Mix: Joe Chinnici; Video Director/Editor: Robert Noonan; Ass't Videographer: Luke Noonan.

The Fab Faux - Abbey Road Side 2 (mostly) from The Fab Faux on Vimeo.