great music every cd you put out is fantastic

Gentlemen: I have been a fan since the mid 90's. As a smooth Jazz & Fusion musician myself, I'm just full of admiration for everything you have contributed to the genre over the years. You are more than contributors - you were innovators at the beginning! I just read, sadly, of the passing of Carl and Hollis. Please continue in their memory and honour - and come up to Ontario sometime!

Johnny V.
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Hi Guys

Been listening to your music for about 6 years now and never get enough. Any chance of a session in London sometime soon ?

cheers

Zak

Heard your music for the first time on Skyfm radio this morning. As a mature smooth jazz fan (young at heart !) who was converted to this genre relatively recently.. 10 years ago, I'd like to say how much I loved it. I only wish I knew about it in 1986. Alas.. too busy having babies !!

No wonder the band has been around for so long and will continue to be for years to come...Just "SIZZLIN'" like their song...What a band...! Keep it up guys...!

well, I have to say that for me as a Heavy Metal singer could be strange how I am impressed by a soft, funky, latin sound but that is the way it is. Every single morning along with my vitamins and breackfast comes the sound of "Work to Do" and a "Anything is possible" which send me the right and exactly message for my starting day Thank you very much for that songs and for your entire music. When you guys comming to Mexico ???

Sat nite performance at the Norfolk Jazz Festival was great. Despite the temperature (new daily high of 105 degrees) you guys played all out. It was very well received as evidenced by the audience reaction. Missed you at the autograph tent after the show. Looking forward to seeing/hearing you again.

Today 7/10/2k10,Is the first time I heard the sad news about Carl Evans Jr.
and Hollis gentry the third,passing...
I've been a fan since the Inception of Fattburger back in 86' with One Of A Kind
I'm sending much regards-and I pray for each and every member-past to presently...I met almost all of the 89'
members-Steve Laury was about to "step out"...It was the show at Bird land west
and after the show, somehow myself and my best friend Eric D.Is suddenly hanging out with Fattburger!I think steve took off early,butCarl,Tom,Mark, and kevin talked to us as If we were just one of the guy's---we even had a Fattburger trivia moment-as Carl asked
me and my friend Eric,to name the albulm
that certin songs he would name, were actually on---well two "Time Will Tell" T-shirts later,and then my friend that's a big Bobby Lyle fan,had Carl giving "much praise" for Bobby's piano/keyboard skills. So about 15to25 minutes,we continued to "shoot the breeze" as the equipment was being loaded for transport...I will never forget Carl Evans Jr. and Hollis Gentry the third. I've become a "Love poetry writer since 92'and I've truly been Inspired by all of You,so I really hope to see my "Favorite group In the world---Fattburger" perform "One More Time"...
May God be with you!!!"Dr.Poet 7/11/2k10.

I lived in Fresno, CA when I first loved your music and still do, Time Will Tell / Who Put The Meat In My Bed, the best!!!

great music one of my favorite bands

Hope you guys get back out on tour for a little bit...sure miss your live performances...last saw you in August of 2001 ...guess where ? You should do the inaugural for the Freedom Tower when it's completed.

Thanks for all of your great music.

You are missed !

Miss your performances... Get up to Seattle sometime...

You're my favorite smooth jazz band ever!

Love your CD

Thank you very much, guys, for your music. Now I'm addicted to it :) Hope to see your live performance some day!

...one of the best jazz bands on the planet...THANK you guys :)

Miss you guys so much!!! of course especially Tommy, my favorite percussionist in the world!! If ever I can help to get you guys to do a show here in Montreal give me a shout. There's the Montreal Jazz festival, but Fattburger is never on the list. I think Montréal would absolutely love you guys.

Right on Mark for keeping the thing moving! I miss Cal, Carl, and Hollis. It was great working with all you guys in my time in Dago town. Hope you guys are playing whenever I find myself down there. Peace ..\ /

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Far too late in coming, this entry to your site and legacy is well overdue. Having known Carl Evans Jr., Hollis Gentry, Nathan East and other members of that Crawford High School musical mafia, I have watched Fattburger develop from its inception and very early stages. My brother Marc shared musical creation and childhood friendship with these fine musicians and I as the older brother, was actually allowed to input early in their development. My band's moderate success led me to actually become a broadcaster for a period and in that role, I was often in touch with Carl, Hollis and Nate to varying degrees. All this backdrop to say to those who may not know , that the passing of Carl Evans Jr., Hollis Gentry and San Diego's Lamont Johnson has created a vacuum of musical talent that cannot be easily filled. Indeed, a recent musical piece that I have written to advance a children's literacy project mentions Carl and Hollis by name and does so both as an honorific and because their presence in the creation of this effort for children was seminal. We might speak about "Fattburger's" personnel from a musical standpoint and not be done for days. There can be no doubt that Fattburger as been one of the most uniquely creative groups in Jazz. One needs look no further than "Trail of Tears" to appreciate that fact. But they have also brought a form of humanity, to include human failings, to the music industry and more to the world. "Fattburger's" evolving quality, with the loss of Hollis and Carl, attests that what was begun as a band has morphed into much, much more. As an "armchair" musicologist and as one knowledgeable of much of the music, I look forward to the children that my efforts will hopefully reach being made aware of the efforts, pedigree and achievements of this "Super Group." One can find music that is different than "Fattburger," but there is no music that is better. Once a group reaches a certain level of performance, their place in the hierarchy and pantheon of music is merely a matter of preference on the part of the listener. "Fattburger" has reached those heights and the world has been made just a little better from the efforts of these fine personalities and their music.

I just wanted to say hi. I saw you were on Wikipedia, and just today discovered that Carl passed in 2008. God bless. I used to come see you every week at the PB cafe, back in '85, when Hollis and Steve were in the group. I had so many wonderful evenings listening to your music. I continued to listen and buy your CD's over the years, always a fan. You guys have aged, but still look great. I saw you in Austin one year, and saw you in Vegas in '06. Glad I saw Carl play again. His love and joy made Fattburger, his smiling face. Crying. Life is bittersweet, isn't it?