Live at the Maple was produced by Joe and will be the first live CD in Joe’s catalogue. The Sunday nights were so successful that the trio released a live CD, Live at the Maple Leaf (Oct. It features Joe playing Hammond B-3 organ where Joe plays all the bass parts on the organ. 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). In March of 2007, Krown released his 8th CD Old Friends (2007) featuring the trio. 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. 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. He's been a headline performer at WWOZ's Piano Night during the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival every year since 1997. His current solo piano CD, Exposed is a follow to the STRdigital CDs. Both are solo piano performance featuring original New Orleans piano/boogie-woogie style compositions and classic New Orleans piano songs. Just the Piano.Just the Blues (1998) and New Orleans Piano Rolls (2003). Joe has two solo piano CDs 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. Down & Dirty (1999), Buckle Up (2000) and Funkyard (2002) were all released on the New Orleans label STRdigital. The Joe Krown Organ Combo has 4 CD releases. The band made its European debut in November 2001 at the Ingolstadt Jazztage in Ingolstadt Germany. The "Combo" makes regular appearances at the French Quarter Festival in New Orleans and the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. 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. Joe's band, the Joe Krown Organ Combo (New Orleans, LA) was formed in 1999. The band, Gate's Express won an Offbeat 2004 Best Band in the Blues Category. In 1995, Gatemouth and Gate's Express including Joe on keyboards, did a 62 date world tour as the opening act for Eric Clapton. Joe is also featured in Gatemouth's band on Carlos Santana's Carlos Santana Presents Blues At Montreux 2004 (2006) DVD. 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 held the keyboard chair with Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown & Gate’s Express from 1992 until Gatemouth's passing in the fall of 2005. and the world as the organ/piano player for the multi award winning, chart topping Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band. He is currently touring all over the U.S. 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". 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. His trio with Johnny Sansone & John Fohl won a 2004 New Orleans Big Easy Award in the Blues category. (She filmed her "Deja Vu" video here with Jay-Z back in 2006.) Bruce Springsteen and Bonnie Raitt have also swung by unannounced to sit in on Maple Leaf sets before.He has been nominated twice and won a 2000 New Orleans Big Easy Award in the Blues category. If we’re going to be in town, what-and who-do you think this is best for?If it's good enough for Beyoncé, it's good enough for us. Their $20 cover is a little higher than most, but if you get there on time it'll usually get you two hour-long sets with some terrific musicians. Good for kids? Nope it's a bar, after all!Īnything in particular that makes this place special, from the programming to a unique feature it has? The Rebirth Brass Band has been packing the place every Tuesday night for decades. How are the seats? There's seating in the main bar area, though it's hard to see the stage: You'll get the best experience moving your feet and joining the fray when the music compels you. Maddox Memorial Prose & Poetry Reading-is the longest running event of its kind in the country.) What kinds of events can we see here? Just about every style of music is performed here, and it's even known for its poetry nights. Give us the big picture: What’s the vibe of the place, what’s it like? The grand dame of NOLA's uptown live music venues, this spot draws a diverse crowd every night of the week.
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