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WHO WE ARE:
Guitars: Mike Merola
Bass: Al MacDowell
Keys: Robbie Clores
Drums: Nick Saya
Percussion: Daniel Sadownick
Trumpets: Tony Kadleck & Lew Soloff
Sax: Andy Snitzer & Blue Lou Marini
Trombone: Tom Bones Malone

ABOUT:
Mike Merola started up his r&b-jazz-rock band The City Boys Allstars in the early 1990s. The members included Lew, Lou, Jim, Tom, singer Bil Kurz, trumpeter Tony Kadleck, drummer Nick Saya, keyboardist Rob Clores and singer-bassist Billy Troiani, who would be replaced by Keith Lambeth. Then vocalist Frankie Paris came onboard. So did another talented singer, Angel Rissoff. Saxophonist Andy Snitzer, recommended to Mike by Jim, would sub for Lou when he had other commitments.

The Allstars' exciting performances were well-received by club audiences. The band recorded at two sessions between 1990 and '94; the best of these tracks can be heard on the recently issued album Look Out, Here We Come. The Allstars kept rolling along until calling it a day in 1996 when Mike needed to attend to his seriously ill mother. The deaths of his Allstars friends Frankie Paris and Keith Lambert a bit earlier were tough to take, as well.

Since 2011, The Allstars' have been back in action again. Mike, in fine form as a guitarist and in good spirits, says, "It was only after a serious medical issue and surviving that did I decide to give it another chance. I formed my own indie label, released Look Out, Here We Come and then I set out to find another singer-writer and another bassist. I got Horace Scott II and Al MacDowell [long associated with Ornette Coleman]. Nick brought in percussionist Dan Sadownick, and I brought in Andy as a full-time band member. Tony acts as main producer and most of the arranging is done by him and Tom "Bones" Malone."

The current All Allstars' band has recorded a fresh studio album titled When You Needed Me, and the CD and Audio File Vinyl edition been well received since coming out a short while ago. A new concert album, Blinded by the Night, recorded at Manhattan's Cutting Room club in August 2013, is now out. Also, a second studio album will be ready for release by July 4th. "This is the lineup I've always wanted,' says Mike, whose impressive guitar work pays homage to his treasured teachers and influences like Eric Clapton, B. B. King and Joe Pass. "At the Cutting Room, there was magic all over as it was the best we have ever sounded."