Band

Cla Nett

Instrument: Guitars, Vocal 
Bands: Marrow Blues Band, Kickin'Mule, Blues Nettwork, Second Cousins
Active with Lazy Poker Blues Band: since 1975 (Founder)

Ueli "Tapsi" Hofmann

Instrument: Guitars
Bands: Night Train
Active with Lazy Poker Blues Band:  1975

Werner Döbelin

Instrument: Bass
Bands: 
Active with Lazy Poker Blues Band:  1975-1978

Fulvio Haeberli

Instrument: Drums, Vocals
Bands: na
Active with Lazy Poker Blues Band:  1975-1978

Marco "Boozey" Piazzalonga

Instrument: Drums, Guitars, Vocal 
Bands: Kickin'Mule, Bartrek
Active with Lazy Poker Blues Band: 1976-1989 

Jakob Künzler

Instrument: Sax, Harp, Vocals, Keys
Bands: Hammerfest, Hinz&Kunz, Bartrek, Pop Monster, Jakob K.
Active with Lazy Poker Blues Band:  1978

Sam Jenzer

Instrument: Bass, Keys
Bands: Basstardi, Cosmic Band, Pedro Libre's Fun Tin
Active with Lazy Poker Blues Band:  1978-1983 und seit 2013

Roli Frei

Instrument: Vocals, Sax
Bands: Circus, Soulfood Deserts
Active with Lazy Poker Blues Band:  since 1984

Urs Meier

Instrument: Guitars, Vocal 
Bands: Life is Hard, Hefel und die Dampfnudeln
Active with Lazy Poker Blues Band: since 2001 

Andy Lang

Instrument: Drums 
Bands: Hot'Lanta, Lif is Hard, Groove 26, Blues Nettwork, The Little Chevy Band.
Active with Lazy Poker Blues Band: since 1999 

Beni Müller

Instrument: Hammond
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Markus Werner

Instrument: Bass, Vocal 
Bands: Life is Hard, Avalanche
Active with Lazy Poker Blues Band: since 2000 

Dani Schneider

Instrument: Sax
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Gaby Schlick

Instrument: Sax
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Lukas Nüesch

Instrument: Trompet
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Sandro Filannino

Instrument: Sax
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Thomas Merlo

Instrument: Trompet
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Rolf "Vanny" van Roon

Instrument: Sax
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Willy Ester

Instrument: Sax
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Maggie Bertschi

Instrument: Sax
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Daniel Guggenheim

Instrument: Sax
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Hans Schaffner

Instrument: Guitar
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Hans Frigenwinter

Instrument: Keys
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Dänu Meyer

Instrument: Sax
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Theo Jost

Instrument: Trompet
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Guests

Dieter "Harprise" Gröflin

Instruments: Harp, Vocals
www.harprise.ch

Roli Frei

Instruments: Vocals
www.soulfuldesert.ch

Friends

Maurice John Vaughn

Instruments: Guitar, Vocals, Saxophone

Started as a saxopohone player, but in the early seventies, when the demand for horn players diminished, he changed to guitar as his main instrument. He paid his dues with A.C. Reed, the Phil Guy Band and toured Europe with Son Seals. Alligator Records re-released his first and much appraised solo debut "Generic Blues Album" in 1988 and issued the follow-up "In the Shadow of the City"(1993). His 1995 Swiss tour with the Lazy Poker Blues Band was a big success.

Little Smokey Smothers

Instruments: Guitar, Vocals

Jimmy Johnson

Instruments: Guitar, Vocals

Brother of Soul-Blues artist Syl Johnson grew up in Mississippi, then moved first to Memphis and in 1950 to Chicago. Since the early sixties he played R&B. In 1974 he switched to straight Blues when he joined the Jimmy Dawkins Band. His 4 tracks on the Alligator "Living Chicago Blues" series influenced the style of Lazy Poker. One of these songs (Breakin' up somebody's home) is represented on the album "Halsted-Sessions"After two great LP's for Delmark Records (1979 and 1982), he toured the world with his Blues and minor key Blues ballads. Recently he released the album "I'm a Jockey" on Verve Records - look out for it in your favourite record shop - it's a great album! Jimmy Johnson appears courtesy of Verve Records.

Jon McDonald

Instruments: Guitar, Vocals

Pistol Pete Newell

Instruments: Guitar, Vocals

Raised in Chicago by his aunt and uncle (a slide guitar player) who started to teach him guitar at the age of four. Pete has opened for and shared stage with Bo Diddeley, Koko Taylor, Buddy Guy, Junior Wells, Otis Rush, Tab Benoit, Band of Gypsys, and Rick Nielsen of Cheap Trick. The first CD of "Pistol Pete and the Professionals" called "Loaded" was released in November 1995 by Gray Guys, Ltd.

Steve Freund

Instruments: Guitar, Vocals

Guitarist, producer, and bandleader Steve Freund, praised by Rolling Stone for his "masterful,no-nonsense" guitar work has recently relocated to the West Coast following 18 years as one of Chicago's most respected musicians. Widely sought after for his knowledge of and fluency in the Blues idioms, Freund has earned a reputation as one of the hottest players on today's blues scene. He served an unreproducible apprenticeship after leaving N.Y.C. in 1976, learning the role of second guitar behind Hubert Sumlin, Lee Jackson, Homesick James, Louis Meyers, and many others. Steve spent two years with Big Walter Horton and Floyd Jones, learning the deep blues and the idiosyncrasies that are part of the art. In 1978 he became Sunnyland Slim's main guitarist, playing just about every gig the piano legend did up until the time of his death. Freund became the consummate piano accompanist, working with Pinetop Perkins, Jimmy Walker, Henry Gray and others.

Harlan Lee Terson

Instruments: Bass

The 44 years old bass player is one of Chicago's most sought after sidemen. For six years he played with Lonnie Brooks (1976-82) and as a former member (1981-93) of the Kingston Mines house band, he played with almost everybody in the Blues circuit.

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