Stuey Blue music is sax-powered, groove-oriented, Funky-Bluesy-Rocking-Jazz with passionate vocals. While Stuey Blue varies his sax and vocal sound to fit his many moods and songs his deep soulful playing and singing are a constant. On the sax he can growl, honk, wail, and scream the blues in a rocking way or sweetly serenade you with a pure beautiful melodic tone. Stuey’s voice varies from soft, pretty and crooning to rough, powerful and strong. His lyrics speak of personal life-changing transformation and aim to inspire. He writes great meaningful songs that crossover into Blues, Jazz, Pop, and Adult Contemporary.

Stuey Blue picked up the sax at 10 and by fifteen was performing every weekend, with his band Sunrise. He graduated Wesleyan University, Middletown Ct. with a B.A. in music and then went on the road with the Otrabanda Theatrical Revue which performed shows in major cities such as New Orleans, Baton Rouge, St Louis, Memphis, and N.Y.C as well as in small towns along the Mississippi river. The revue was featured in an hour long PBS documentary as well as numerous TV spots. After the tour he settled in N.Y.C. quickly becoming a sought-after sideman for numerous local bands and doing session work on CD’s and for TV and film. He formed his own band the Screamin Honkers which were quickly hailed the “best bar band in town(N.Y.C)” by the Village Voice. They headlined at major clubs like Studio 54, The Stone Pony, The Lone Star Café, and The 930 club and colleges like StonyBrook, Univ. of Richmond, and Queens College performing their original compositions and building a large fan base. Their video aired nationally on ABC’s Hot Tracks, HBO, and CNN. They also appeared in the major motion picture “Ishtar”. The band averaged 150 shows a year playing extensively in N.Y.C. and the Northeast states for many years. Their self-released albums sold well. Stuey’s exciting high energy live shows which featured him blowing his sax while he dancing through the audience, dropping to his knees on the beat , jumping on tables and bars, playing on his back rocking and kicking his feet while wailing and honking to a jump beat, brought audiences to a frenzy. After many years in N.Y.C. Stuey Blue moved to Ft. Lauderdale, Florida where he played with numerous local bands as well as his own. He has played at major festivals like Sunfest, Riverwalk Blues Festival, and the South Florida Blues Society sponsored Blues Diva’s of South Florida concert, which will be releasing a live CD in the fall of 2006. He formed the Stuey Blue Band to feature himself and his original compositions and in late 2006 released his self-produced CD, “New Way Of Living” which can be purchased at CDBaby.com. He can currently be seen at local venues in the South Florida area. Check out his website at StueyBlue.com.

Stuey’s sax influences include honking sax players like Big Jay McNeely, Sax Gordon and Sam Butera; contemporary players like Kirk Whalum, Euge Groove, and John Shilts; soulful players like Stanley Turrentine, Gene Ammons, and Grover Washington; rockin bluesy players like Clarence Clemmons, Bobby Keyes and J.T. Brown; and balladeers like Stan Getz, Gato Barbierri, and Ben Webster.

Stuey Blue started performing every weekend with his band Sunrise at the age of fifteen. He graduated Wesleyan University, Middletown Ct. with a B.A. in music and then went on the road with the Otrabanda Theatrical Revue which performed shows in major cities such as New Orleans, Baton Rouge, St Louis, Memphis, and N.Y.C as well as in small towns along the Mississippi river. The revue was featured in an hour long PBS documentary as well as numerous TV spots. After the tour he settled in N.Y.C. performing with numerous local bands and doing session work on CD’s and for TV and film.

He formed his own band the Screamin Honkers which were quickly hailed the “best bar band in town(N.Y.C)” by the Village Voice. They headlined at major clubs like Studio 54, The Stone Pony, The Lone Star Café, and The 930 club and colleges like StonyBrook, Univ. Of Richmond, and Queens College performing their original compositions. Their video aired nationally on ABC’s Hot Tracks, HBO, and CNN. They also appeared in the major motion picture “Ishtar”. The band averaged 150 shows a year playing extensively in N.Y.C. and the Northeast states for many years. Their self-released albums sold well. Stuey’s exciting live shows,which featured him blowing his sax while dancing through the audience, dropping to his knees on the beat,jumping on tables and bars, playing on his back rocking and kicking his feet while wailing and honking to a jump beat, brought audiences to a frenzy.

After many years in N.Y.C. Stuey Blue moved to Ft. Lauderdale, Florida and began playing with numerous local bands as well as his own. He has played at major festivals like Sunfest, Riverwalk Blues Festival, and the South Florida Blues Society sponsored Blues Diva’s of South Florida concert, which will be releasing a live CD in the fall of 2006. Stuey Blue just released his own CD, “New Way Of Living” which can be purchased at CDBaby.com. He can currently be seen at local venues in the South Florida area.