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Isaiah Sharkey at Jimmy’s

Jimmy’s Jazz & Blues Club
135 Congress St
Portsmouth, NH 03801 US

We are excited to announce ๐†๐‘๐€๐Œ๐Œ๐˜ยฎ ๐€๐ฐ๐š๐ซ๐-๐–๐ข๐ง๐ง๐ข๐ง๐  ๐†๐ฎ๐ข๐ญ๐š๐ซ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ & ๐’๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ž๐ซ ๐ˆ๐’๐€๐ˆ๐€๐‡ ๐’๐‡๐€๐‘๐Š๐„๐˜ will perform with his band at Jimmyโ€™s Jazz & Blues Club on ๐“๐ก๐ฎ๐ซ๐ฌ๐๐š๐ฒ ๐‰๐š๐ง๐ฎ๐š๐ซ๐ฒ ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ‘ ๐š๐ญ ๐Ÿ•:๐Ÿ‘๐ŸŽ ๐.๐Œ. ๐ผ๐‘ ๐‘Ž๐‘–๐‘Žโ„Ž ๐‘†โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘˜๐‘’๐‘ฆ ๐‘–๐‘  ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘–๐‘ ๐‘’๐‘‘ ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘ก๐‘Ž๐‘˜๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘’๐‘›๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘Ž๐‘”๐‘’ ๐‘Ž๐‘  โ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘“๐‘ข๐‘ ๐‘’๐‘  ๐‘ก๐‘œ๐‘”๐‘’๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’๐‘Ÿ โ„Ž๐‘–๐‘  ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘˜๐‘”๐‘Ÿ๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘–๐‘› ๐‘Ÿ๐‘œ๐‘๐‘˜, ๐‘”๐‘œ๐‘ ๐‘๐‘’๐‘™, ๐‘—๐‘Ž๐‘ง๐‘ง, ๐‘…&๐ต, ๐‘๐‘™๐‘ข๐‘’๐‘ , ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘“๐‘ข๐‘›๐‘˜ ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘’ ๐‘Ž๐‘› ๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘”๐‘–๐‘›๐‘Ž๐‘™ ๐‘ ๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘ค๐‘–๐‘กโ„Ž ๐‘Ž๐‘› ๐‘ข๐‘›๐‘š๐‘–๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘Ž๐‘˜๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘™๐‘’ ๐‘‘๐‘œ๐‘ ๐‘’ ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐‘ ๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘™.

๐‘ฐ๐’”๐’‚๐’Š๐’‚๐’‰ ๐‘บ๐’‰๐’‚๐’“๐’Œ๐’†๐’š ๐’‰๐’‚๐’” ๐’ƒ๐’–๐’Š๐’๐’• ๐’‚๐’ ๐’†๐’๐’—๐’Š๐’‚๐’ƒ๐’๐’† ๐’“๐’†๐’‘๐’–๐’•๐’‚๐’•๐’Š๐’๐’ ๐’‚๐’” ๐’‚ ๐’ˆ๐’–๐’Š๐’•๐’‚๐’“๐’Š๐’”๐’•โ€™๐’” ๐’ˆ๐’–๐’Š๐’•๐’‚๐’“๐’Š๐’”๐’•. ๐‘ฏ๐’Š๐’” ๐’—๐’๐’๐’–๐’Ž๐’Š๐’๐’๐’–๐’” ๐’„๐’“๐’†๐’…๐’Š๐’•๐’” ๐’„๐’๐’—๐’†๐’“ ๐’‚๐’๐’ ๐’ˆ๐’†๐’๐’“๐’†๐’”, ๐’‚๐’๐’… ๐’˜๐’‰๐’†๐’ ๐’‰๐’†โ€™๐’” ๐’๐’๐’• ๐’Š๐’ ๐’•๐’‰๐’† ๐’”๐’•๐’–๐’…๐’Š๐’ ๐’š๐’๐’–โ€™๐’๐’ ๐’‡๐’Š๐’๐’… ๐’‰๐’Š๐’Ž ๐’๐’๐’”๐’•๐’‚๐’ˆ๐’†, ๐’˜๐’‰๐’†๐’•๐’‰๐’†๐’“ ๐’•๐’‰๐’‚๐’• ๐’Ž๐’†๐’‚๐’๐’” ๐’•๐’๐’–๐’“๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ ๐’•๐’‰๐’† ๐’˜๐’๐’“๐’๐’… ๐’‚๐’” ๐’‚ ๐’Ž๐’†๐’Ž๐’ƒ๐’†๐’“ ๐’๐’‡ ๐‘ฑ๐’๐’‰๐’ ๐‘ด๐’‚๐’š๐’†๐’“โ€™๐’” ๐’ƒ๐’‚๐’๐’… ๐’๐’“ ๐’‹๐’‚๐’Ž๐’Ž๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ ๐’Š๐’ ๐’‚ ๐’‰๐’๐’Ž๐’†๐’•๐’๐’˜๐’ ๐‘ช๐’‰๐’Š๐’„๐’‚๐’ˆ๐’ ๐’„๐’๐’–๐’ƒ ๐’˜๐’Š๐’•๐’‰ ๐‘บ๐’๐’‚๐’“๐’Œ๐’š ๐‘ท๐’–๐’‘๐’‘๐’š. ๐‘ป๐’‰๐’† ๐’‚๐’„๐’„๐’๐’๐’‚๐’…๐’†๐’” ๐’‡๐’“๐’๐’Ž ๐’‰๐’Š๐’” ๐’„๐’๐’๐’๐’†๐’‚๐’ˆ๐’–๐’†๐’” ๐’‚๐’“๐’† ๐’†๐’๐’…๐’๐’†๐’”๐’”; ๐’‰๐’Š๐’” ๐’‡๐’‚๐’๐’ƒ๐’‚๐’”๐’† ๐’Š๐’” ๐’˜๐’Š๐’…๐’†๐’”๐’‘๐’“๐’†๐’‚๐’… ๐’‚๐’๐’… ๐’…๐’†๐’…๐’Š๐’„๐’‚๐’•๐’†๐’….โ€
โ€” ๐‘ฎ๐‘ผ๐‘ฐ๐‘ป๐‘จ๐‘น ๐‘พ๐‘ถ๐‘น๐‘ณ๐‘ซ

โ€œ๐‘ฏ๐’† ๐’”๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ๐’”, ๐’‰๐’† ๐’‘๐’๐’‚๐’š๐’”, ๐’‰๐’† ๐’˜๐’“๐’Š๐’•๐’†๐’”. ๐‘ฏ๐’†โ€™๐’” ๐’๐’๐’† ๐’๐’‡ ๐’•๐’‰๐’† ๐’Ž๐’๐’”๐’• ๐’•๐’‚๐’๐’†๐’๐’•๐’†๐’… ๐’Ž๐’–๐’”๐’Š๐’„๐’Š๐’‚๐’๐’”.โ€
โ€” ๐‘ฉ๐‘น๐‘ฐ๐‘จ๐‘ต ๐‘ด๐‘ช๐‘ฒ๐‘ต๐‘ฐ๐‘ฎ๐‘ฏ๐‘ป

๐“๐ก๐ž ๐ˆ๐ฌ๐š๐ข๐š๐ก ๐’๐ก๐š๐ซ๐ค๐ž๐ฒ ๐๐š๐ง๐ ๐ข๐ฌ:
Isaiah Sharkey (Guitar/Vocals);
Eric Johnson (Drums);
Tim Tribitt (Keys);
Maurice Fitzgerald (Bass)

Tแด แดกแด€แด›แด„สœ แด€ษดแด… สŸษชsแด›แด‡ษด แด›แด Isแด€ษชแด€สœ Sสœแด€ส€แด‹แด‡ส & สœษชs ส™แด€ษดแด… แด€แด› ๐‰ษชแดแดส’๐ฌ ๐‰แด€แดขแดข & ๐สŸแดœแด‡๐ฌ ๐‚สŸแดœส™ – sแดœแด˜แด˜แดส€แด›แด‡แด… ส™ส แดแดœส€ ษดแด‡แดก sแด›แด€แด›แด‡-แด๊œฐ-แด›สœแด‡-แด€ส€แด› แด˜ส€แดแด…แดœแด„แด›ษชแดษด, sแดแดœษดแด… & สŸษชษขสœแด›ษชษดษข แด›แด‡แด„สœษดแดสŸแดษขษชแด‡s – แดกษชสŸสŸ ส™แด‡ ๐€๐–๐„๐’๐Ž๐Œ๐„!! Tสœแด‡ แด‡xแด„แด‡แด˜แด›ษชแดษดแด€สŸ sแดแดœษดแด… วซแดœแด€สŸษชแด›ส แด„แดแดœแด˜สŸแด‡แด… แดกษชแด›สœ แด›สœแด‡ ษชษดแด›ษชแดแด€แด„ส แด๊œฐ แดแดœส€ แด ษชsแดœแด€สŸสŸส sแด›แดœษดษดษชษดษข “สŸษชsแด›แด‡ษดษชษดษข ส€แดแดแด” แด‡ษดแด ษชส€แดษดแดแด‡ษดแด› – แด€สŸสŸ แดกษชแด›สœษชษด แดแดœส€ ษดแด‡แดกสŸส แด€ษดแด… แดแด‡แด›ษชแด„แดœสŸแดแดœsสŸส ส€แด‡sแด›แดส€แด‡แด… สœษชsแด›แดส€ษชแด„ 1905 ส™แดœษชสŸแด…ษชษดษข – แดแด€แด‹แด‡s ๊œฐแดส€ แด€ แด˜แด‡ส€๊œฐแด‡แด„แด› sแด‡แด›แด›ษชษดษข แด›แด sแด‡แด‡ ส™ส€ษชสŸสŸษชแด€ษดแด› Gแดœษชแด›แด€ส€ษชsแด› Isแด€ษชแด€สœ Sสœแด€ส€แด‹แด‡ส แด˜แด‡ส€๊œฐแดส€แด!

๐€ ๐ง๐š๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐‚๐ก๐ข๐œ๐š๐ ๐จ, ๐ˆ๐’๐€๐ˆ๐€๐‡ ๐’๐‡๐€๐‘๐Š๐„๐˜ (๐•๐จ๐œ๐š๐ฅ๐ฌ/๐†๐ฎ๐ข๐ญ๐š๐ซ) ๐ฌ๐ฉ๐ž๐ง๐ญ ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐ž๐š๐ซ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ฒ๐ž๐š๐ซ๐ฌ ๐ฅ๐ข๐ฏ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ข๐ง ๐‚๐š๐›๐ซ๐ข๐ง๐ข ๐†๐ซ๐ž๐ž๐ง. Perhaps as a precursor to his future career, he lived with his parents in a row house on a street that is now named for Curtis Mayfield. Coming from a musical household, Isaiah was introduced to music at the age of four. He decided he wanted to be a guitarist and asked his parents to purchase one. Shortly thereafter, Isaiah started learning music under the close introduction of his father, Michael Sharkey.

๐ˆ๐ฌ๐š๐ข๐š๐ก ๐ฐ๐จ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ ๐ฅ๐ž๐š๐ซ๐ง ๐š๐›๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐๐ข๐Ÿ๐Ÿ๐ž๐ซ๐ž๐ง๐ญ ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ข๐œ๐š๐ฅ ๐ ๐ž๐ง๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ/๐ฌ๐ญ๐ฒ๐ฅ๐ž๐ฌ ๐Ÿ๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ ๐ ๐จ๐ฌ๐ฉ๐ž๐ฅ ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ข๐œ, ๐ฐ๐ก๐ข๐œ๐ก ๐œ๐š๐ฆ๐ž ๐Ÿ๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ ๐ ๐ซ๐จ๐ฐ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ฎ๐ฉ ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐œ๐ก๐ฎ๐ซ๐œ๐ก, ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฃ๐š๐ณ๐ณ, ๐‘&๐, ๐›๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ž๐ฌ, ๐ซ๐จ๐œ๐ค ๐š๐ง๐ ๐Ÿ๐ฎ๐ง๐ค ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ข๐œ. It wasn’t long before Isaiah would become noticed by other musicians in the Chicago area for being a young, new talent. Soon after, he started doing concerts in the church as well as sitting in local jazz club jams.

๐€๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐š๐ ๐ž ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ’, ๐ˆ๐ฌ๐š๐ข๐š๐ก, ๐š๐ฅ๐จ๐ง๐  ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐Ÿ๐š๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ซ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐›๐ซ๐จ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ, ๐ซ๐ž๐ฅ๐ž๐š๐ฌ๐ž๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ข๐ซ ๐Ÿ๐ข๐ซ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐š๐ฅ๐›๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐ญ๐ฅ๐ž๐, โ€˜๐’๐ค๐ฒ๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐ž๐ซ.โ€™ This album displayed Isaiah’s ability to play covers and some transcriptions from greats like Wes Montgomery and George Benson. Subsequently, he started his recording career and served as a sideman for gospel artists such as Smokie Norful, Donald Lawrence and Vanessa Bell Armstrong. He also toured as lead guitarist with Ronald Isley and recorded two albums with him.

๐ˆ๐ง ๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ๐ŸŽ๐Ÿ—, ๐ˆ๐ฌ๐š๐ข๐š๐ก ๐ฌ๐ญ๐š๐ซ๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ค๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐š๐ซ๐ญ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ D’Angelo ๐จ๐ง ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ซ๐ ๐š๐ฅ๐›๐ฎ๐ฆ, โ€˜๐๐ฅ๐š๐œ๐ค ๐Œ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐š๐กโ€™, ๐ฐ๐ก๐ข๐œ๐ก ๐ฐ๐จ๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ“ ๐†๐‘๐€๐Œ๐Œ๐˜ยฎ ๐€๐ฐ๐š๐ซ๐ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ โ€œ๐๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ ๐‘&๐ ๐€๐ฅ๐›๐ฎ๐ฆโ€. The album โ€˜Black Messiahโ€™ โ€“ a critically lauded Billboard top-five album released under the moniker โ€˜Dโ€™Angelo And The Vanguardโ€™ in honor of the contribution his collaborators had made to the process – also landed Isaiah Sharkey a GRAMMYยฎ Award.

๐ˆ๐ฌ๐š๐ข๐š๐ก ๐ก๐š๐ฌ ๐š๐ฅ๐ฌ๐จ ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ค๐ž๐, ๐ซ๐ž๐œ๐จ๐ซ๐๐ž๐, ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ž๐ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐ฌ๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐š๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ฅ๐-๐ซ๐ž๐ง๐จ๐ฐ๐ง ๐š๐ง๐ ๐†๐‘๐€๐Œ๐Œ๐˜ยฎ ๐€๐ฐ๐š๐ซ๐-๐–๐ข๐ง๐ข๐ง๐  ๐€๐ซ๐ญ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐ฌ ๐ข๐ง๐œ๐ฅ๐ฎ๐๐ข๐ง๐ : John Mayer, Patti LaBelle, Christopher Martin of Coldplay, Paul Simon, Corrine Bailey Rae, Mike Posner, Keith Urban, Brian McKnight, Boyz II Men, Lalah Hathaway, Raphael Saadiq, Chris Dave and the DrumHedz, Regina Belle, Ruben Studdard, Lupe Fiasco, Kelly Price, Faith Evans, Rance Allen, The Winans, The Clark Sisters and many others.

โ€œ๐ผ๐‘กโ€™๐‘  ๐‘›๐‘œ๐‘ก ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘ก ๐‘๐‘’๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘–๐‘› ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘™๐‘–๐‘š๐‘’๐‘™๐‘–๐‘”โ„Ž๐‘ก. ๐ผ๐‘“ ๐‘–๐‘ก ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘š๐‘’๐‘ , ๐‘–๐‘ก ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘š๐‘’๐‘ , ๐‘๐‘ข๐‘ก ๐ผ ๐‘ค๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘ก ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘๐‘’ ๐‘คโ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐ผ ๐‘›๐‘’๐‘’๐‘‘ ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘๐‘’ ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘ก๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘๐‘ข๐‘ก๐‘’ ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘š๐‘ข๐‘ ๐‘–๐‘. ๐‘‡โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘กโ€™๐‘  ๐‘š๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ ๐‘–๐‘š๐‘๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘ก๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘ก. ๐ผ๐‘“ ๐‘ ๐‘œ๐‘š๐‘’๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘’ ๐‘ ๐‘Ž๐‘ฆ๐‘ , โ€˜๐ป๐‘’๐‘ฆ, ๐‘š๐‘Ž๐‘›, ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘’โ€™๐‘  ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘–๐‘  ๐‘”๐‘ข๐‘ฆ ๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘›๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ก ๐‘๐‘™๐‘Ž๐‘ฆ๐‘  ๐‘”๐‘ข๐‘–๐‘ก๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ, ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐ผ ๐‘™๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘›๐‘’๐‘‘ ๐‘“๐‘Ÿ๐‘œ๐‘š โ„Ž๐‘–๐‘š ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ โ„Ž๐‘’ โ„Ž๐‘’๐‘™๐‘๐‘’๐‘‘ ๐‘š๐‘’ ๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘ค๐‘Ž๐‘ฆ,โ€™ ๐ผโ€™๐‘š ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘œ๐‘™ ๐‘ค๐‘–๐‘กโ„Ž ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ก. ๐ผ๐‘“ ๐‘ ๐‘œ๐‘š๐‘’๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘’ ๐‘–๐‘  ๐‘–๐‘š๐‘๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘ ๐‘ ๐‘’๐‘‘ ๐‘ค๐‘–๐‘กโ„Ž ๐‘š๐‘ฆ ๐‘๐‘™๐‘Ž๐‘ฆ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘”, ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘กโ€™๐‘  ๐‘”๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘ก, ๐‘๐‘ข๐‘ก ๐‘š๐‘ฆ ๐‘—๐‘œ๐‘ ๐‘–๐‘  ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘Ž๐‘“๐‘“๐‘’๐‘๐‘ก ๐‘๐‘’๐‘œ๐‘๐‘™๐‘’ ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘™๐‘œ๐‘ฃ๐‘’ ๐‘คโ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ก ๐ผ ๐‘‘๐‘œ.โ€

๐„๐‘๐ˆ๐‚ ๐‰๐Ž๐‡๐๐’๐Ž๐ (๐ƒ๐ซ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฌ), ๐š ๐‚๐ก๐ข๐œ๐š๐ ๐จ ๐ง๐š๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž, ๐ก๐š๐ฌ ๐œ๐ก๐จ๐ฉ๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฐ๐ก๐จ๐ฅ๐ž ๐ฐ๐š๐ฒ ๐š๐ซ๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐: ๐Ÿ๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ ๐€๐Ÿ๐ซ๐ข๐œ๐š๐ง ๐š๐ง๐ ๐‹๐š๐ญ๐ข๐ง ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฅ๐ฒ-๐ซ๐ก๐ฒ๐ญ๐ก๐ฆ๐ฌ, ๐ญ๐จ ๐‘๐จ๐œ๐ค ๐š๐ง๐ ๐‘&๐, ๐ญ๐จ ๐‰๐š๐ณ๐ณ, ๐†๐จ๐ฌ๐ฉ๐ž๐ฅ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐‡๐ข๐ฉ-๐ก๐จ๐ฉ, ๐„๐ซ๐ข๐œโ€™๐ฌ ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฐ๐ž๐ซ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐Ÿ๐ข๐ง๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ž ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ฆ๐š๐ง๐ข๐Ÿ๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐›๐ž๐š๐ญ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ž๐ฑ๐œ๐ž๐ฉ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐š๐ฅ. Maybe itโ€™s all the time he has spent DJing and collecting rare records, maybe itโ€™s a by-product of his production talents, or maybe itโ€™s just due to his Creole heritage, but whatever the source of Ericโ€™s musical diversity, it has made him a much-in-demand participant in projects of multiple genres for a truly impressive array of artists, including Kanye West , Angie Stone, Dru Hill, Chingy, Pras (The Fugees), Isaiah Sharkeyโ€™s solo project (guitarist for Dโ€™Angelo, Patti Labelle, and John Mayer), Jackie Dustin, The Pentecostals of Chicago Choir, The Turks & Caicos Mass Choir, Twinkie Clark, Sakura Nozaki, Martha Reeves, Shannon Harris, Glenn Underground, and The Arkansas Mass Choir. Itโ€™s a simple as this: Eric rages on the drums, and he breathes a fiercely dynamic fire into the rhythms.

๐Œ๐€๐”๐‘๐ˆ๐‚๐„ ๐…๐ˆ๐“๐™๐†๐„๐‘๐€๐‹๐ƒ (๐๐š๐ฌ๐ฌ) ๐›๐ž๐ ๐š๐ง ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐š๐ฒ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐›๐š๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐จ๐ง ๐š ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐Ÿ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐š๐ฅ ๐ฅ๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ฅ ๐š๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐š๐ ๐ž ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ– ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ก๐š๐ฌ ๐ฆ๐š๐ข๐ง๐ญ๐š๐ข๐ง๐ž๐ ๐š ๐๐ข๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ๐ž ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐Ÿ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐š๐ฅ ๐œ๐š๐ซ๐ž๐ž๐ซ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ’ ๐ฒ๐ž๐š๐ซ๐ฌ, ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐š๐ฒ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐œ๐จ๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ฆ๐ฉ๐จ๐ซ๐š๐ซ๐ฒ ๐ฃ๐š๐ณ๐ณ ๐ ๐ซ๐ž๐š๐ญ๐ฌ ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐œ๐ก ๐š๐ฌ Ramsey Lewis ๐š๐ง๐ ๐๐ซ๐ข๐š๐ง ๐‚๐ฎ๐ฅ๐›๐ž๐ซ๐ญ๐ฌ๐จ๐ง, ๐š๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐ž๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐š๐ฌ ๐ ๐จ๐ฌ๐ฉ๐ž๐ฅ ๐ ๐ซ๐ž๐š๐ญ๐ฌ ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐œ๐ก ๐š๐ฌ ๐ƒ๐จ๐ง๐ง๐ข๐ž ๐Œ๐œ๐‚๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ค๐ข๐ง ๐š๐ง๐ ๐‚๐ž๐‚๐ž ๐–๐ข๐ง๐š๐ง๐ฌ. When asked about his jazz influences, Maurice would reply with Marcus Miller, Anthony Jackson, Nathan East and Jackoโ€ฆbefore naming others. Displaying his profound versatility, he would list gospel influences of Joel Smith, Steve Huff and Andrew Bushe. His varied studio, live recording and concert experience display his versatility in multiple genres and also aided in his formulating a sound that is both crisp and distinctive, but most importantly, sought after.

๐‡๐ž๐ซ๐ž ๐š๐ซ๐ž ๐ฌ๐จ๐ฆ๐ž ๐ข๐ง๐œ๐ซ๐ž๐๐ข๐›๐ฅ๐ž ๐ฏ๐ข๐๐ž๐จ๐ฌ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ˆ๐ฌ๐š๐ข๐š๐ก ๐’๐ก๐š๐ซ๐ค๐ž๐ฒโ€™๐ฌ ๐ข๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž ๐ ๐ฎ๐ข๐ญ๐š๐ซ ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ค:

Isaiah Sharkey Jamming with John Mayer!!

Isaiah intro for John Mayer (Amazing!!)

โ€œIf I ever get around to livingโ€ with John Mayer (exceptional!!)

Awesome Cool & Groovy Guitar Solo!!

Isaiah Sharkey & Melanie Faye R&B Jam
(Wow!! He is phenomenal!!)

Sharkey performing with Brian McKnight – ‘Crazy Love’ at The Palaise Theatre in Melbourne, Australia

Isaiah jamming with Snarky Puppy:

โ€ฆAnd a great interview with Isaiah:

๐“๐ข๐œ๐ค๐ž๐ญ๐ฌ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐†๐‘๐€๐Œ๐Œ๐˜ยฎ ๐€๐ฐ๐š๐ซ๐-๐–๐ข๐ง๐ง๐ข๐ง๐  ๐†๐ฎ๐ข๐ญ๐š๐ซ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ & ๐’๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ž๐ซ ๐ˆ๐’๐€๐ˆ๐€๐‡ ๐’๐‡๐€๐‘๐Š๐„๐˜ on ๐“๐ก๐ฎ๐ซ๐ฌ๐๐š๐ฒ ๐‰๐š๐ง๐ฎ๐š๐ซ๐ฒ ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ‘ ๐š๐ญ ๐Ÿ•:๐Ÿ‘๐ŸŽ ๐.๐Œ. are on sale NOW on Ticketmaster, Facebook Events at: https://fb.me/e/1oPF3INQz and the Jimmy’s Jazz & Blues Club website at:
https://jimmysoncongress.com/event/isaiah-sharkey/ – ๐‘ซ๐’๐’๐’“๐’” ๐’๐’‘๐’†๐’ ๐’‚๐’๐’… ๐’‚ ๐’…๐’†๐’๐’Š๐’„๐’Š๐’๐’–๐’” ๐’…๐’Š๐’๐’๐’†๐’“ ๐’Š๐’” ๐’”๐’†๐’“๐’—๐’†๐’… – ๐’˜๐’Š๐’•๐’‰ ๐’”๐’Š๐’ˆ๐’๐’‚๐’•๐’–๐’“๐’† ๐’…๐’“๐’Š๐’๐’Œ๐’” ๐’‚๐’๐’… ๐’„๐’๐’„๐’Œ๐’•๐’‚๐’Š๐’๐’” – ๐’‚๐’• 5:30 ๐’‘๐’Ž!!

๐€๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐‰๐ข๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฒ’๐ฌ ๐‰๐š๐ณ๐ณ & ๐๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ž๐ฌ ๐‚๐ฅ๐ฎ๐› ๐’๐ก๐จ๐ฐ๐ฌ & ๐„๐ฏ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ฌ ๐œ๐š๐ง ๐›๐ž ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐ ๐š๐ญ: https://jimmysoncongress.com/events/ – ๐‘ต๐‘ฌ๐‘พ ๐‘บ๐‘ฏ๐‘ถ๐‘พ๐‘บ ๐‘ถ๐‘ต-๐‘บ๐‘จ๐‘ณ๐‘ฌ ๐‘ต๐‘ถ๐‘พ (2022)

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