Blues concert "Tribute to Jimmy Smith" as part of the 29th edition of the "Jazz à Toulon" festival.

In this "Tribute to Jimmy Smith", Lucky Peterson concentrates on the Hammond B-3 organ, his favorite instrument whose warm tone refers to the songs of gospel and the hymns of soul music. To pay tribute to his mentor Jimmy Smith, he surrounded himself with virtuoso partners among whom stands the prodigy guitarist Kelyn Crapp. Throughout the album, Lucky Peterson is the repository of a long musical history rooted in the blues but very open; we find the pulsation of jazz, the groove of rhythm'n'blues and the energy of rock'n'roll.

Lucky Peterson: Hammond organ, vocals
Kelyn Crapp: guitar
Nicolas Folmer: trumpet
Ahmad Compaoré: drums

FEE: free admission

Tel: +33 (0)4 94 09 71 00

More info: here

Place Martin Bidouré, Pont du Las, 83200 Toulon..

Blues concert "Tribute to Jimmy Smith" as part of the 3rd edition of the "Surgères Brass Festival".

After the remarkable "The Son of a Bluesman" and "Live in Marciac", the new album of the American bluesman Lucky Peterson at Jazz Village is already an important and indispensable disc in his lush discography. The reason for this is twofold. First of all, Lucky Peterson plays exclusively with the Hammond B-3 organ and favors instrumental pieces, and then he proposes a particularly compact instrumentation (an organ-guitar-drums trio, sometimes with the addition of a trumpet or a saxophone) through a repertoire clearly oriented towards jazz, in tribute to the great organist Jimmy Smith, with standards from his repertoire (The Sermon, The Champ) and many other surprises...

Lucky Peterson: Hammond organ, vocals
Kelyn Crapp: guitar
Nicolas Folmer: trumpet
Ahmad Compaoré: drums

FEE: 30€ / 27€ / 20€

Tel: +33 (0)1 75 37 70 46

More info: here

Scène du Parc, Château de Surgères, 17700 Surgères.

Blues concert "Tribute to Jimmy Smith" as part of the 43rd edition of the "Crest Jazz Vocal" festival.

Repository of one century of black music, Lucky Peterson steeps his blues in embers. He pays tribute to Jimmy Smith, grandmaster of the Hammond organ, to his genius and his spirit, based on a repertoire clearly oriented towards jazz. This jazz is tinged with soul and blues. Music that grooves and could be called "jazz'n'blues".

Lucky Peterson: Hammond organ, vocals
Kelyn Crapp: guitar
Nicolas Folmer: trumpet
Ahmad Compaoré: drums

FEE: 27€ / 24€ / 20€

Tel: +33 (0)9 51 20 57 02

More info: here

Espace Soubeyran, 75 avenue Jean Rabot, 26400 Crest.

Blues concert "Tribute to Jimmy Smith" as part of the 9th edition of the "Jazz au Phare" festival.

Singer, guitarist, drummer, organist... Multi-instrumentalist Lucky Peterson started the blues at a very young age. His father owned the Governor's Inn in Buffalo, a famous blues club that attracted all the local artists and passing through musicians. « My father nourished me with blues before I could walk. And I played the organ bafore I could speak » tells the man who became the worthy successor of all those heavyweights he mixed with during his childhood. Here, Lucky Peterson is back on his first instrument, the Hammond B3 organ, and he plays the music of his youth idol, Jimmy Smith. A concert at the crossroads between blues, gospel, soul and jazz, fiendishly funky !

Lucky Peterson: Hammond organ, vocals
Kelyn Crapp: guitar
Nicolas Folmer: trumpet
Ahmad Compaoré: drums

FEE: 36€ / 31€ / 6€

Tel: +33 (0)7 86 67 18 29

More info: here

La Grande Scène, 155 allée du Phare, 17590 Saint-Clément-des-Baleines.

Blues concert "Tribute to Jimmy Smith" as part of the 16th edition of the "Au Grès du Jazz" festival.

Lucky Peterson was bottle-fed on blues in his father's club where he met Buddy Guy, Muddy Waters and Willie Dixon. As a spiritual son of the three King's (BB, Albert and Freddie), he turns his electric inspiration into the pulsation of jazz, the groove of rhythm'n'blues and the energy of rock'n'roll. Having learned to play the organ at age 5, he remains committed to the unique sound of the Hammond B3, a passion he shares with Jimmy Smith, his teacher he met at age 17 and whom he pays tribute to in this concert.

Lucky Peterson: Hammond organ, vocals
Kelyn Crapp: guitar
Nicolas Folmer: trumpet
Ahmad Compaoré: drums

FEE: 31€ / 26€

Tel: +33 (0)3 88 01 49 59

More info: here

Place du Château (Jerri Hans), 67290 La Petite Pierre.