Wave Hill Presents: Jerron "Blind Boy" Paxton

Performer:
Jerron “Blind Boy” Paxton - Guitar, Vocals

This performance is the third in a series of virtual concerts that bring together artists who have established relationships with Wave Hill, either as past performers or who were scheduled to perform during 2020.

Jerron “Blind Boy” Paxton is an American multi-instrumentalist, blues musician and vocalist from Los Angeles. He plays banjo, piano and violin, and his musical influences are rooted mainly in the early blues from the 1920s and 1930s. Paxton’s family, originally from Louisiana, moved to L.A. in the 1950s where he grew up before moving to New York in 2007. With a strong interest in blues and jazz music before World War II, Paxton’s sound is influenced by the likes of Fats Waller and “Blind” Lemon Jefferson. As Will Friedwald has written in The Wall Street Journal, Paxton is “virtually the only music-maker of his generation playing guitar, banjo, piano and violin, among other implements to fully assimilate the blues idiom of the 1920s and ’30s, the blues of Bessie Smith and Lonnie Johnson.”

Wave Hill Presents is a virtual concert series that is filmed on the grounds at Wave Hill and was curated by Wave Hill’s former Curator of Performing Arts Ginger Dolden.