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Artist
Kyle Jester
12+ albums
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I recently made all my music free to download at my website, www.KyleJester.com. I started out in 1999 as the the front man and founder of The Tri-Tones (February 3rd, 1999 - July 18th, 2001). This was my first power trio of many to come. I played with Vladimir Yarrovinsky on drums and Thomas Yearsley of the Paladins on upright bass all over San Diego and north county... any club that would have us pretty much which turned out to be 4-5 nights a week. It was through The Tri-Tones, and the Elector Studio which Thomas had opened, that I met Earl Thomas in 2000. Earl had a big name here in San Diego and we were happy to accept his invitation for The Tri-Tones to back him on a record that came to be known as "The Elector Studio Sessions." The record went on to win the San Diego Music Award's "Best Blues Album" in 2002, and has since been re-mastered and re-released on the Memphis International record label as "Soul'd." We backed Earl for about six months after the record came out (January 3rd, 2000 - June 1st, 2000) until I was invited to join the Freddie Brooks Band out of Long Beach (June 1st, 2000 - January 1st, 2001), and Thomas was asked to rejoin the Paladins. Freddie had and all-star cast that I was excited to be a part of: Freddie Brooks on harmonica, Tyler Peterson on bass, Paul Fasulo on drums, then Ron Felton on drums after Paul left to join Candye Kane's Band, and occasionally Carl "Sonny" Leland on piano. We played the opening slot at the Blue Cafe every Friday an
