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Jimmy Voegeli - Singer/Songwriter, Keyboardist, Band Leader
 Led by singer/songwriter and keyboardist, Jimmy Voegeli, a UW-Madison CALS alum. During the day Jimmy helps out on his family's sixth-generation dairy farm. They till 1,500 acres of crop land, robotically milk 130 purebred Brown Swiss dairy cows; and export embryos, bull semen, and live animals all over the world! They show and exhibit dairy cattle throughout the states. His grandfather, father, and brother are world-renowned dairy geneticists, selling their genetics to hundreds of countries.

Jimmy grew up in a house constantly filled with music and singing – his parents met at one of his father’s gigs. He played the piano, yet struggled through piano lessons, then flunked high school band on trumpet. Jimmy made that report card the cover of his first solo album: “F” is for Blues,” featuring Grammy-winning blues-man Billy Flynn on guitar; Clyde Stubblefield, James Brown’s original funky drummer; and his inspiring tough-love band teacher, Mike Korth, on trombone.

A Hammond Organ Artist, Jimmy's won MAMA (Madison Area Music Award) awards for "Keyboardist of the Year" in 2010, 2012, 2015; “Organist of the Year” in 2021 & 2022 and MAMA Hall of Fame Class “Piano”. Jimmy also received WAMI (Wisconsin Area Music Industry) awards for "Keyboardist of the Year" in 2011, 2015; and “Organist of the Year” in 2024. Jimmy performs with outstanding industry award winning instrumentalists, Perry Weber - Guitars, Singer/Songwriter; Johnny Wartenweiler - Electric and Upright Bass; Chris Sandoval - Drums; Pete Ross - Tenor & Alto Saxophones, Clarinet; Joe Goltz - Trombone; and Chad Whittinghill - Trumpet.

The Jimmys (www.thejimmys.net), founded by Jimmy, in September 2009, have released five critically ac-claimed albums of original music and have earned 30+ awards in numerous categories on a highly competitive local, regional, and national level. In 2014-2018 & 2022, The Jimmys won MAMA awards for "Blues Per-former of the Year”; in 2014, 2021, 2023 “Artist of the Year” along with awards for “Blues Album of the Year” in 2016-2017, & 2020; “Blues Song of the Year” 2014, 2016-2017 and in 2020 “Unique Song of the Year”. In 2012 & 2016, The Jimmys earned WAMI awards for "Best Swing/Big Band Ensemble” and in 2023 “Best Art-ist Southwest”. Awards with Independent Blues include “Local R&B Band”, “Local Blues Band”, “Blues Band”, “Blues Song of the Year” and “Best Contemporary Song”, “Write a Hit” with Marcia Ball. Other awards include Downbeat Magazine “Best Album”; Isthmus Mad Faves “Madison’s Favorite Band”; and multiple years with Madison Magazine “Best Blues Band”, “Best Blues Gold Winner”, “Best Local Band”, and MAMA Hall of Fame Class “Best Performer”.

Jimmy has played thousands of shows and recorded on nearly 100 albums with the likes of Marcia Ball, The Funkmasters (Clyde Stubblefield and Jabo Starks from The James Brown Band), Dan Baird and Homemade Sin (formerly The Georgia Satellites), Bun E Carlos (Cheap Trick), Bryan Lee, Blues Superstars such as Stephen Hull, Chris O’Leary Band, Reverend Raven & the Chain Smokin’ Altar Boys, Perry Weber, Jim Liban, Barstool Bob with guests Lonnie Brooks; along with an 18-year stint in the award-winning Westside Andy/Mel Ford band earning a first round Grammy Award nomination for “Contemporary Blues Album” in 2003. Jimmy has shared the stage with Blues greats like Tinsley Ellis, Buddy Guy, Keb Mo, Marcia Ball, Pinetop Perkins, Hubert Sumlin, Billy Flynn, Tab Benoit, Nick Moss Band, Tommy Castro Band, EC Scott, Shirley King, Gui-tar Shorty, Greg Koch, Joe Bonamassa along with Jazz greats Tony Monaco and Ben Sidran. The Jimmys have done numerous tours in Europe and Scandinavia, even recorded an award winning LIVE album at the prestigious Sighișoara Blues Fest în Sighișoara, Romania. Jimmy has also been a featured artist on two recent Legendary Rhythm and Blues Cruises.

He's been on stage with such greats as Pinetop Perkins, Rusty Zinn, Guitar Shorty, Joe Bonamassa, Perry Weber, Rev Raven, Billy Flynn, Tab Benoit, James Solberg, Shirley King, EC Scott, Clyde Stubblefield, Ben Sidran, Ken Saydak, and Dave Specter. There's more to list if his crusty little brain could remember!

Jimmy's recorded with The Funkmasters (John 'Jabo' Starks and Clyde Stubblefield - former drummers for James Brown), The Crashers, Lucas Cates, Robert J, Paul Filipowicz, The Velveetatones, Alex Wilson, Aaron Williams, Bobby Messano, and Fedora - just to name a few.

Perry Weber - Guitars, Singer/Songwriter
Perry Weber certainly joins the band with lots of blues experience. He is steeped in Chicago Blues and delivers it with great energy.

Here's Perry in his own words:
"I was lucky to have great friends and mentors when I was starting out playing blues. Two guys stand out among them all: Bryan Lee and Luther Allison. Every night of the week one of them would be in town somewhere, so I would go see them. They were very good to me, always taking time with me. 

Next came help from Madison Slim, Willie 'Big Eyes' Smith, Calvin Jones and my biggest and most important mentor, Jim Liban. So much thanks goes to Hubert Sumlin and his wife Bea Sumlin, for all the years as an adopted son. Thanks, too, to Barrel House Chuck, Billy Flynn and Piano Willie. There are so many, I can't name them all! 

Bands I've been in include Cadillac Pete and the Kool Breeze, The Complainer's, The Jim Liban Blues Combo, Perry Weber and the Wonder Rods, The Jim Liban Trio, Perry Weber and The Devilles, off and on work with Barrel House Chuck and the Blue Lites, The Bill Lupkin Band, The Willie Big Eye's Smith Band, Madison Slim and the Nite Crawlers, The Piano Willie Band.

I've shared the stage with Bryan Lee, Luther Allison, Calvin Jones, Willie Smith, Hubert Sumlin, Madison Slim, Jim Liban, Jimmy Dawkins, Buddy Guy, Pine Top Perkins, Sunnyland Slim, Nick Moss, Sam Lay, Jim Solberg, John Brim, Bob Stroger, Billy Flynn and others. It's about time to work with old buddy Jimmy Voegeli and his GREAT Band...The Jimmys."

Johnny Wartenweiler - Electric and Upright Bass
 A two-time Wisconsin Area Music Industry (WAMI) Bassist of the Year nominee, and winner of the 2014 Madison Area Music Awards (MAMA) Bassist of the Year, Johnny Wartenweiler has toured North America, Europe, and the Caribbean. 

Johnny prefers a laid back style, developing the pocket and pushing or pulling the beat as needed to create the best groove possible. His sparse playing with percussive, sometimes ferocious attack along with subtle nuance keeps listeners on their toes. Johnny cites Wille Dixon, James Jamerson, Duck Dunn and T-Bone Wolk as influences.

A favorite of the many drummers he has worked with, Johnny relates a story about Funk Master Clyde Stubblefield: 


"I'm playing with an icon; I mean James Brown's drummer! About the second song in, he (Clyde) lights me up with a fill, the likes of which I'd never heard - I mean, he's back on the one while I'm still thinking about what he was doing on the three. We settled in and had a great show. Afterwards I introduced him to my kids, and he turned to them and says, 'your Dad's a funky man’!'"
 
...'Nuff said!

Pete Ross - Tenor & Alto Saxophones, Clarinet
Saxophonist Pete Ross is a Wisconsin native and has been active as both a performer and teacher for the past twelve years. He attended the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor where he studied jazz saxophone and improvisation with Donald Walden and classical saxophone technique and repertoire with Donald Sinta.

He has toured with the Glenn Miller Orchestra and Los Angeles based singer/ songwriter Michael Sullivan and has had the pleasure to perform with a wide array of Madison area artists including the Original Funky Drummer: Clyde Stubblefield, the Madison Mellophonium Jazz Orchestra, the Handphibians, the Big Payback and Jazz Sports!, among others. 

Pete can be heard on recordings with The Jimmys, the Glenn Miller Orchestra, the University of Michigan Jazz Ensemble, and guitarist Bobby Messano. 

In addition to his work as a performer, Pete maintains a studio at the Madison Music Foundry, where he teaches private lessons in saxophone and clarinet.


Joe Goltz
Joe began playing trombone at age 10 in the public school band program in Monroe, Wisconsin, but it was while at college at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville that Joe met the members of Youngblood Brass Band, by whom he was introduced to the fiery, audacious New Orleans brass band style. Two decades of playing brass band music enabled Joe to bring all of his musical interests to the plate to create a unique blend of jazz, funk, rhythm & blues, punk, hip-hop, soul, and ska influences in his sound.  Joe also developed his sound with his bands Mama Digdown’s Brass Band, The Extra Crispy Brass Band, High-Hat Second Line, and District Brass (in High-Hat Second Line and District Brass, Joe fronted the band and sang lead vocals)

From the streets to stages and studios; Joe’s done it all: festivals, clubs, weddings, burlesque shows, corporate events, second lines, cocktail parties, presidential rallies, throwing down in the street all the way to world tours. 

Recently, Joe recorded and performed with Washington D.C.'s award-winning funk and soul outfit AZTEC SUN and performed on their album “In The Name Of Everyone” produced, and mixed, by soul sultan Alan Evans (Soulive/Matador! Soul Sounds). Joe has been featured on each Youngblood Brass Band album, Mama Digdown’s “Delicious, “ and “We Make ‘Em Say Ooh” albums, The Extra Crispy Brass Band’s “One Step Forward” album,  Four Star Brass Band’s “Get Your Four Star On” album, and arranged horn parts for and recorded with Mike Maimone of Mutts on his new "The High Hat Club EP."  In 2019 Joe returned to Wisconsin after over 12 years in Chicago, IL and a year in Rockville, MD and has been playing and touring with Davina & The Vagabonds, Youngblood Brass Band, and the The Jimmys. 

The Spring 2015 issue of The British Trombone Society’s ‘The Trombonist’ magazine features Joe Goltz on the cover and the television show Fargo used a live recording of Joe playing Youngblood Brass Band’s “Brooklyn” on their episode ‘Aporia’ (SE3:EP9).

Chris Sandoval - Drums
Two-time Grammy-nominated drummer, Chris Sandoval was born and raised in California. He began taking drum lessons with the legendary drummer Art Tyler at the age of 5. That same year he was given his first opportunity to perform professionally on stage with his father, Jim Doval, of Jim Doval and the Gauchos.

Chris continued to play professionally during the time he studied music at UC Davis.

In 1983 he moved back to San Francisco and began working locally with The Tubes, Santana, Pete Escovedo, Malo, Freddy Hubbard, George Howard, Roy Ayers, Maria Mauldaur, Greg Allman, Huey Lewis, Ike Turner, Joe Louis Walker, Bonnie Raitt, Lydia Pense and Cold Blood, and The Tommy Castro Band.

While touring with Tommy Castro, Chris was able to play with some of the greats including B.B.King, Taj Mahal, Lonnie Baker Brooks, John Hiatt, Bo Diddley, Neal Shon, Delbert McClinton, and countless others.

In addition, Chris is a seasoned studio musician and has recorded numerous award-winning albums.

Chris now lends his talents to various bands in Madison, Wisconsin. He tours seasonally with nationally accredited acts and provides drum and percussion instruction from his home to students of all ages.

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