City Park Jazz: Delta Sonics Blues Revue

City Park Jazz is a “celebration of community.”

The Delta Sonics music takes a Chicago Blues base and seasons it with Swing, Delta, N’awlins R&B, and some early Rock n' Roll. They were Westword’s best blues band in Denver for the last six to eight years. The band made the semi-finals in the International Blues Challenge in Memphis in 2012. The band has also played in Kansas City, St. Louis, and New Orleans among other cities. 

Averaging 250 gigs a year before 2020, they're comfortable playing large events and concerts as well as smaller venues.  The band has played the Taste of Colorado, the Boulder Creek Fest, the Greeley Blues Jam, Pearl St. Blues & Brews, the Five Points Jazz Festival, Triniddadio, Bohemian Nights, the Cherry Creek Arts Fest, and many others.

Al Chesis supplies vocals & foot stomping showmanship, but it's his harmonica playing that grabs you. He has been a Hohner endorser since 1992. Bob Pellegrino supplies the dazzling slide guitar. Bob was the Colorado Blues Society’s best slide guitar player for three years in a row. Alissa Chesis on bass and Stefan Flores on drums drive the bus. 

The Sonics have been THE Mile Hi ‘go-to’ band for touring Blues national acts for nearly 15 yrs. The band has backed national blues acts like Big Bill Morganfield, Steadyrollin' Bob Margolin, Ronnie Baker Brooks, Grammy-nominated Lurrie Bell, Grammy-nominated John Primer, the late Pinetop Perkins, and the late Bo Diddley. 

The Delta Sonics opened for BB King (twice), Robert Cray (three times), and Jimmy Vaughn (twice), among many others.

Al Chesis also guests on Big Head Todd's album "Black Beehive" on the cut "I Get Smooth."