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Welcome to the Mojo Gypsies‘ home on the web! Since 1998, the Gypsies have been bringing our unique blend of up-tempo blues and old-school R&B to the greater Philly area.
Our latest CD, “I Heard You Twice the First Time” is finally here! Fourteen original tracks, recorded from March through September 2016 featuring the band, along with some very special guest artists… and now you can finally hear it in its entirety! Pick one up at a Mojo Gypsies gig, or you can listen to and purchase the CD at CD Baby, iTunes, and GooglePlay, or listen on Apple Music and Spotify. Just click on a link below to go preview and purchase the CD from your favorite source for music.
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NOTE: CD Baby offers both Physical CDs and Digital Downloads - Buy on iTunes
- Buy on Amazon
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- Buy on PayPal: If ordering via PayPal, individual CDs are $15 U.S. each, with free shipping within the Continental United States. Use the following PayPal email address: mojo.y@mindspring.com.
Writing has begun for material for our next CD, slated for a Fall 2018 release, so stay tuned!
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About the Mojo Gypsies
Based in the Eastern PA/Philly area, the Mojo Gypsies are veterans from several central-NJ area bands, who like to have some fun and get folks up dancing! Led by New Jersey Blues Hall of Fame awardee Dave Orban on guitar and vocals, the Gypsies are rounded-out by the addition of the incomparable Mike Scott on tenor sax, and the lovely and talented Mike DeMonte on drums.
At a Gypsies gig, you’re likely to hear songs by such classic blues and old-school R&B artists as Sonny Boy Williamson, Little Walter, T-Bone Walker, Ray Charles, Eddie “Cleanhead” Vinson, Marvin Gaye, Louis Jordan, Robert Parker, Aretha Franklin, Freddie King and Albert Collins, as well as music from contemporary blues performers including Rod Piazza, Little Charlie and the Nightcats, Kid Ramos, Paul DeLay, and James Harman… and, of course, original tunes designed to get folks up and dancing!
Check out our Music Player at top right, where you can listen to — and even download — some “live” tracks. Or better still, come on out to a gig… and see what we’re all about!
Meet the boys in the band
Mojo Gypsies founder, guitarist, and vocalist Dave Orban is a B2B technology marketing executive by day, a musician and artist by night. Orban’s main gigging guitar is a P90-equipped ’53 Gibson ES-175 (blonde, of course!), followed closely by a ’64 Gibson ES-330. He also regularly uses a collection of parts Teles, usually with a P90 in the neck position. All are plugged straight into a ’96 Matchess Chieftain 1×12 combo.
Known locally as “The Professor” (due to a 20+ year stint teaching undergrad course in design, marketing communications, multimedia production, and painting).
Mike Scott‘s musical journey point has taken some wild turns down some very weird roads. For the purposes of brevity and levity, the trip began at Mansfield University where he formed a jazz fusion band called “Mister Hyde” with Jeff Michael, aka “Flourtown Fats.”
Mike graduated in 1991 with a Music Education degree, and went on to teach music and drama in Wilmington. In ’95, he left Wilmington for Boston where he earned his Master of Music degree in Saxophone Performance from the New England Conservatory of Music.
In ’97, he returned to Philly taking a day gig at a local school district teaching Music, Drama and of all things, History. Since he’s been back, he has published three books related to music performance and jazz theory. He even got a Ph.D. in Education (with an emphasis on music… of course) in 2004!
Based in Philadelphia PA, Mike DeMonte began playing with the Gypsies in 2018. An accomplished musician and music educator by training, DeMonte has also been seen playing drums behind some of the Philly area’s finest jazz musicians, including Sonny Troy, Jack St Clair, Kelvin Nathaniel, Bill Shilling, Orland Fiol, Drew Nugent, and Jimmy Bruno, among others.
Building My First Guitar
/in Uncategorized /by adminMy first electric guitar was a Harmony Rocket; a red-burst, with 2 gold-foil pickups and a poor excuse for a Bigsby vibrato tailpiece. It was a bolt-neck, with a rather beefy neck, and skinny frets. My parents bought it for me when I was about 12 or 13, a year after I had begun taking […]
Talking About Songwriting: “Trouble-Makin’ Woman”
/in Uncategorized /by adminIn yet another installment of my occasional “Talking About Songwriting” blog, let’s take a look at “Trouble-Makin’ Woman,” another track from our recently-released CD, “I Heard You Twice the First Time.” Everybody knows one: The irrepressible flirt. They come in all shapes, sizes… and genders. Generally speaking, a person flirts to gauge the interest of […]