LBPL Celebration of Jazz & Blues: Jerron “Blind Boy” Paxton

Jerron Paxton plays black folk music from nearly all the idioms that entails. From the Jazz
of stride piano and banjo from New Orleans to New York to the deepest of the blues played on
guitar and harmonica of which he has been a noted figure since his teenage years, from the rural
music that reaches the beginnings of black arrival in America played on fiddle, banjo, and bones
to ragtime and other turn of the century music that gives the full breadth of black music before
World War Two in a package that doesn’t lecture, but invites you to enjoy that music as it was
given to him. Mr. Paxton has been known to give his audiences a sense of being transported not
to a time, but a state of mind and understanding that allows audiences to enjoy black folk music
and have it become a part of them as has been the American experience from the beginning.