Les Izmore personnel

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Rob Spindler (A.K.A. Les Izmore) began singing publicly in choral groups at the age of ten. He’s a self taught multi-instrumentalist with abilities in guitar, bass, piano, drums and trumpet. By the age of sixteen he was performing in clubs in Port Chester, New York with the Grateful Dead tribute group Red Eye, and later performed in clubs in Boston with the folk/pop vocal group Old Number Seven. While in Boston he completed classes in music theory and received vocal training at Boston University’s School of Music.

He relocated to Arizona in 1988 and has performed occasionally with Dewey and the Decimators and Luther Jackson and the Loose Cannons Blues Band from 1993-1999. After a period of experimentation with Steve Fasano in an electric blues/rock ensemble, he joined the Les Izmore acoustic blues trio in 1995 and co-produced with Steve the CD Nothing Exceeds Like Excess. In 1998 he re-established Les Izmore as an electric blues quartet performing at several Valley nightclubs and special events. A father of two and a professional archivist, Rob’s growing family and career required his retirement from the club scene, but he continues to create and perform the music he loves at the finest restaurants and exclusive events here in the Valley.

Lee Poole has been playing blues harmonica in Arizona for more than 20 years. From 1979 to 1981 he was a member of Tucson’s Subterranean Blues Band, a popular ensemble that opened shows for John Mellancamp, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Roy Buchanon, The Sir Douglas Quintet and The Blasters. Since moving to Phoenix in 1982 he has performed with the Lynwood Flyers, the Blue Laws Band, and Luther Jackson and the Loose Cannons Blues Band. Lee is also a founding officer and Board member of the Phoenix Blues Society. He also worked as a journalist for both the New Times and the Scottsdale Progress, and has interviewed such artists as Queen Ida, Charlie Musselwhite, Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown and Buckwheat Zydeco.

The electric Les Izmore bands have featured several local musicians including Steve Fasano of the retro blues trio The Top Cats, drummers Steve Tanner and James Bailey, and guitarists Kurt Murphy and Mike Sawitzke.