It is a real pleasure to welcome Alan Glen with Manny Fizzotti this Friday to play us some serious blues. Neither of them are strangers to St Harmonica’s but it is a thrill to have them play together in the same band

Alan Glen, one of the British top blues harmonica players, is best known for his work with The Yardbirds, Nine Below Zero and Little Axe.

He has played on over 50 albums, and recorded/performed with: John Mayall, Zoot Money, Alannah Miles, Jeff Beck, Steve Vai, Slash, Steve Lukather and Skunk Baxter.

He also played with Peter Green, Paul Jones, Junior Delgado and Hubert Sumlin at the Long Beach Blues Festival and recorded the album On The Road Again with Dr. Feelgood.

Soundcheck magazine referred to Glen as "one of the finest blues harp players and slide guitarists of his generation" and also received praise from Net Rhythms for his harmonica playing.

Manny Fizzotti, is one of the nicest guys around and one of the busiest artists on the London blues scene. He graduated “with honours” at the Guitar Institute of Technology in Los Angeles, where he also played as a session guitarist at Shanghai Recording Studios working with Mike Carnevale (engineer for Eric Clapton, Greg Allman, Jeff Beck and Keith Richards) and performed at famous blues clubs such as Harvelle’s in Santa Monica.

Since moving to London in 2011 he performed at well known clubs such as the “Ronnie Scott’s Bar”, the “606 Club”, “The Bull’s Head”, the “12 Bar Club”, the “Troubador”, the “ Boom Boom Club”, “The Hideaway”, the “Ain’t Nothin’ But Blues Bar” and “The Eel Pie Club” and he had the pleasure of being invited to play with Giles Robson, the "John O' Leary and Alan Glen All Stars", the "Dennis Greaves Band", "Nine Below Zero" and the great Chicago blues ambassador Billy Branch!

In his live performances Manny mixes up blues classics and his own blues compositions and, when he plays a dobro guitar with slide in real “Delta blues style”, he takes the listener back to the smoky atmosphere of the Mississipi juke-joints.

“A very good guitarist with real blues feeling , lots of talent and a lot of good taste, a really good musician that can play blues and variations on blues in many styles with taste and credibility”

(Bruce Iglauer - Head of “Alligator Records” in Chicago)

“Fizzotti’s versatility and technical ability are extremely impressive, he is obviously an outstanding guitar player and a good singer with a warm and enjoyable voice” (Blues Blast Magazine)