Live Music: Jack Hadley (Flatiron Park)

Jack Hadley is bring the tunes tonight! Make sure you make your way to our Flatiron Park tap room for blues and brews!

About the Band:

The son of a Filipino mother and an African-American father, Jack was born in the Philippines. He grew up in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco. His mother bought him a guitar at the age of twelve because she wanted to keep him busy. The family moved to Denver, Colorado, where he learned to play music by ear, playing music by everyone from Hendrix to Dylan, unaware that he was learning the foundation of American music – the blues.

Jack played in a number of Denver area bands, sharpening his guitar skills and discovering his vocal talent along the way. In addition to performing as a solo artist and hired gun, Hadley was a member of reggae band Rude Culture and r&b/funk outfit Network. In 2005 he struck out on his own with The Jack Hadley Band, a blues-based project, to focus on writing and performing his original material. That same year Jack was playing at a local Denver club when he was approached by blues veteran Otis Taylor who happened to be in the audience. For the next 18 months Jack was Taylor’s lead guitarist, playing at festivals and shows all over the U.S., Canada and the United Kingdom. He appears on Otis Taylor’s 2007 Telarc release “Definition Of A Circle” playing lead guitar and lap steel guitar. Notable musicians on this recording include ex-Thin Lizzy axeman Gary Moore and blues harmonica legend Charlie Musselwhite. In November 2006 he recorded two songs with keyboard wizard Steve McQuarry at the legendary Hyde Street Studios in San Francisco including his revolutionary track “You & Me.”

The fall of 2007 marked the beginning of a new project with bluesman Dan Treanor. “Brothers Blood & Bone” is a fresh look at the blues today that includes new songs from Treanor and Hadley along with their updated versions of classics from Blind Lemon Jefferson, Sonny Boy Williamson and Walter “Billy Boy” Arnold. In 2011 Hadley contributed lead vocals to Neil Haverstick’s “Hide & Seek” CD on Stickman Records.

“The St. Louis Sessions” was released in October, 2014. Nine original songs recorded with the St. Louis Blues All-Stars: Producer/keyboard player Bob Lohr, drummer Keith Robinson and bassist Terry Coleman. Recorded at Casa Del Torretta by David Torretta, mastered by Matt Murman. Available at www.jackhadleymusic.net, Amazon, CD Baby, iTunes and Spotify.