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Jason Ricci and The Bad Kind

Jason Ricci began his international music career in 1995, moving to Memphis to study with former Johnny Winter sideman Pat Ramsey. That same year, Ricci won the Sonny Boy Blues Society contest and played the King Biscuit festival at 20 years old. Since then, Ricci has won dozens of blues and harmonica contests, toured the world, and amassed an impressive collection of awards, honors and accolades. In 2010, Ricci's album "Done With The Devil" (Delta Groove) was nominated for a BMA Award, and he won the BMA Award for "Best Harmonica Player", beating some of his childhood heroes. In 2014, Ricci was a featured artist on Johnny Winter's Grammy Award-winning album "Step Back" produced by Paul Nelson, appearing alongside names like Eric Clapton, Dr. John, Brian Setzer, Billy Gibbons, Leslie West, and more. In 2015, Ricci was invited to play on the HBO-televised Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony for Paul Butterfield. At The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Ricci performed in front of 10,000 people and millions of HBO viewers with Zac Brown (Multi-Platinum Singer Songwriter) and Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello with the Paul Shaffer band.

Ricci has been actively touring the Blues circuit in the USA and Europe for over twenty years, and is well known for having one of the most exciting, energetic and unpredictable live shows on the circuit. Jason's shows feature a variety of music from Blues, Punk, Jazz, R&B, and Fusion. He's just as likely to cover music by Little Walter, Otis Rush, Sonny Boy Williamson and Slim Harpo as he is The Misfits, Sun Ra, Lou Reed or Cheech and Chong.

As a recording artist Jason Ricci has released eight solo albums. His last two, "Rocket Number Nine" and "Done With The Devil", both charted The Billboard Blues Charts in top five positions and won numerous awards. Ricci is well known in the harmonica community as an early pioneer of the "over-blow" technique (transforming the 10 hole diatonic into a fully chromatic instrument) invented/popularized by Howard Levy, and is also one of the very first harmonica players to widely use, incorporate, design and popularize the use of effects pedals for harmonica.