Joe
Krown's Latest Releases
Tribute
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Release
Date 4-14-23
City Country City
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Release
Date 10-22-21
Soul Understanding
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Released
4-25-13
Exposed
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2012 Solo
piano
Live
at the Maple Leaf
2009
Offbeat Award for
Best R&B/Funk CD
Joe
Krown's CDs can be purchased online at
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Louisiana Music Factory
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Joe
Krown is a resident and is based out of the city of New Orleans.
He is a New Orleans styled piano and Hammond B-3 player. He is
a Hammond endorsed artist and is part of the Hammond artist family.
Joe's played the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival
every year since 2001 and the French Quarter
Festival every year since 1998. He has been nominated
twice and won a 2000 New Orleans Big Easy Award
in the Blues category. His trio with Johnny Sansone & John
Fohl won a 2004 New Orleans Big Easy Award in
the Blues category. His Hammond organ trio featuring legendary
Louisiana guitarist Walter Wolfman Washington won a 2009 New
Orleans Big Easy Award in the Blues Category and a 2009
Offbeat Award for Best R&B/Funk Album. In
April 2014, he was honored with a Piano Legacy Award,
presented by the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra and for being a "Master
of Piano". He is currently touring all over the U.S. and
the world as the organ/piano player for the multi award winning,
chart topping Kenny
Wayne Shepherd Band.
Joe held
the keyboard chair with Clarence
"Gatemouth" Brown & Gate’s Express
from 1992 until Gatemouth's passing in the fall of 2005. Joe is
featured on the chart topping albums The Man (1993),
Gate Swings (1997), American
Music, Texas Style (1999) and Back to
Bogalusa (2001) CDs and Clarence "Gatemouth"
Brown - In Concert: Ohne Filter (2003) DVD. Joe
is also featured in Gatemouth's band on Carlos Santana's Carlos
Santana Presents Blues At Montreux 2004 (2006)
DVD. In 1995, Gatemouth and Gate's
Express including Joe on keyboards, did a 62 date world tour as
the opening act for Eric Clapton. The band, Gate's Express
won an Offbeat 2004 Best Band in the Blues Category.
Joe's band,
the Joe
Krown Organ Combo (New Orleans, LA) was formed
in 1999. The Joe Krown Organ Combo performs every
week at one of the many New Orleans nightclubs, including the
Maple Leaf Bar, House of Blues, Tipitina's, Le Bon Temps
Roule and dba. The
"Combo" makes regular appearances at the French
Quarter Festival in New Orleans and the New
Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. The band made
its European debut in November 2001 at the Ingolstadt
Jazztage in Ingolstadt Germany. The Joe Krown
Organ Combo has 4 CD releases. Down &
Dirty (1999), Buckle Up
(2000) and Funkyard (2002) were all
released on the New Orleans label
STRdigital. The Joe Krown Organ Combo’s
newest release, Livin Large was released
in February 2005 and is Joe's first self-produced, independently
released CD.
Joe has two solo piano
CDs on the New Orleans label
STRdigital. Just the Piano...Just the Blues
(1998) and New Orleans Piano Rolls (2003).
Both are solo piano performance featuring original New Orleans
piano/boogie-woogie style compositions and classic New Orleans
piano songs. His current solo piano CD, Exposed
is a follow to the STRdigital CDs. He's been a headline performer
at WWOZ's Piano Night during the New
Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival every year since
1997. Joe plays regular solo piano performances in New Orleans
at Ralph's on the Park, Le Bon Temps and the Jazz Playhouse in
the Sonesta Hotel on Bourbbon St. In
October 2005 after Hurricane Katrina and the failures of the federal
levee systems destroyed Joe's home city of New Orleans, he returned
home and started playing around New Orleans with his piano trio,
the Joe Krown Trio. In March of 2007, Krown released
his 8th CD Old Friends (2007)
featuring the trio.
In
the spring of 2007, Joe started playing every Sunday night at
the Maple Leaf Bar (New Orleans, LA) with Walter
Wolfman Washington (guitar & vocals) and Russell
Batiste (drums). It features Joe playing Hammond B-3 organ
where Joe plays all the bass parts on the organ. The Sunday nights
were so successful that the trio released a live CD, Live
at the Maple Leaf (Oct. 2008). Live
at the Maple was produced by Joe and will be the
first live CD in Joe’s catalogue. Live at the
Maple won a 2009 Offbeat
Award for Best R&B/Funk CD. The trio also won a 2009 Big Easy
Award in the "Best Rhythm & Blues Band" category.
In the fall of 2010, the Trio released Triple
Threat (JK1004), the follow up to Live at the
Maple Leaf and their first studio CD. The trio released it's 3rd
CD Soul
Understanding (JK1006) for Jazz Fest 2013. The
Trio was invited to be part of 15 city U.S. tour called "New
Orleans Nights" (November 2010). The band was a feature along
with Nicholas
Payton and Allen
Toussaint. In the fall of 2017 Russell Batiste left the Trio
and Wayne Maureau took over the drum chair.
After the untimely passing of the legendary great Allen Toussaint
in November 2015, Joe was selected to fill the maestro's chair
by playing piano with Toussaint's band backing up greats like
Bonnie Rait, Aaron Neville, Irma Thomas, Dr. John, Cyril Neville
and more at the 2016 New Orleans Jazz Fest, Hollwood Bowl, Midsummer
Night Swing at Lincoln Center and more.
In May 2017 in addition to being a headline performer for the
29th annual WWOZ Piano Night at the New Orleans
House of Blues during the 2017 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage
Festival, Joe was selected to be the producer for the
event. As producer, Joe put together a great show featuring 10
of the best local New Orleans piano players. The 2017 WWOZ Piano
Night was so successful that Joe was named the permanent producer
of the WWOZ Piano Night. The 2018 WWOZ Piano Night was even more
successful with a sell-out show.
In June 2017 Joe joined the Kenny
Wayne Shepherd Band as the full time piano/organ player. The
Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band has been nominated
five times for a Grammy Award, has received two Billboard Music
Awards, two Blues Music Awards and two Orville H. Gibson Awards.
The band has had 3 platinum (1 million sold) selling CDs and 1
gold (500,000 sold) selling CD. The Kenny Wayne Shepherd
Band is a headline act on the modern blues scene,
has made appearances on late night TV and been an opening act
for major acts like Van Halen, the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan,
Aerosmith and Lynyrd Skynyrd. Joe is on Kenny Wayne's chart topping
recordings, The Traveler, Striaght
to You - Live and Dirt on My Diamonds
Vol. 1.
In 2018, Joe joined forces with harmonica great Jason
Ricci along with Doug Belote on drums to form the Ricci Krown
Trio. With the Trio"s debut release City
Country City on Gulf Coast Records in September
2021.
Joe's most current release Tribute,
which is on the Sledgehammer
Blues label was released in April 2023. It's his first solo
effort in over 10 years. This CD is once again a New Orleans piano
driven CD. Joe got some help from some of his friends including
Noah Hunt (Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band), Ivan Neville, Walter Wolfman
Washington, Leo Nocentelli, Joe Sublett (Phantom Blues Band),
Jason Ricci and more.
Joe's current touring band, the Joe Krown Trio +1 featuring
Papa
Mali is playing regularly around New Orleans and
all over the world. Joining Joe and Papa Mali are Casandra
Faulconer on bass and Eric
Bolivar on drums. The band features the traditional music
of New Orleans piano masters like Professor Longhair, James Booker,
Allen Toussaint, Dr. John, etc. and original music.
Joe made his acting debut in the HBO series Treme.
He did a scene in Season 1, episode 4; "At the Foot of Canal
Street" (air date 5/2/10) and Season 3, episode 5; "I
Thought I Heard Buddy Bolden Say" (air date 10/21/12). He
also has music from some of his CDs featured on the show. Moore
Women Shuffle (Piano Rolls) was featured in "Meet De
Boys on the Battlefront" (air date 4/18/10) and All That
and Then Some (Exposed) was in "I Thought I Heard Buddy
Bolden Say" (air date 10/21/12). Joe can also be seen in
several episodes of the TNT series Memphis
Beat and the Deniro/Stallone movie Grudge
Match (2013).
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New
Orleans Nights
November
2010
With
Allen Toussaint
and Nichloas Payton
Fall 2007 Tour
October
6th 2007 to November 18th 2007
See
Tour Dates page for details
Nominated
"Best Tour"--
2007 Jammy Awards
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