The Trio projects:

Joe Krown trio Featuring Walter Wolfman Washington is Joe playing Hammond B-3 organ in a classic Hammond organ trio with legendary Lousiana guitarist Walter Wolfman Washington and Wayne Maureau on drums.
Ricci Krown Trio is Joe playing Hammond B-3 organ in an organ trio with harmonica great Jason Ricci and Doug Belote on drums.
Joe Krown Trio is Joe in a piano trio with any combination of guitar, sax, bass or drums.
Sansone, Krown & Fohl is a traditional blues trio where Joe plays piano with Johnny Sansone on harmonica and ex-Dr. John guitarist John Fohl.
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     Joe Krown (Hammond B-3) and Walter Wolfman Washington (guitar & vocals) started playing together in a classic organ trio in March 2007. Joe and Walter started with Russell Batiste Jr. on drums. In the fall of 2017, Russell left the trio and Wayne Maureau came in.
The trio has been performing every Sunday at a local New Orleans nightclub, the Maple Leaf Bar. The Trio has performed all over the U.S. & Europe and it performs at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival every year. The combination of the soulful vocals of Walter with the big sound of the Hammond B-3 (which Joe also plays all of the bass parts on the B-3) has developed it's own unique sound. The trio recorded and released a live CD, Live at the Maple Leaf (JK1003) in the fall of 2008. 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's current release and 3rd CD Soul Understanding (JK1006) was released at the end of April 2013. In November 2010 the Trio was invited to be part of 15 city U.S. tour called "New Orleans Nights". The Trio performed a feature set and then backed up Nicholas Payton and Allen Toussaint. The trio has been touring all over the U.S. and the world since 2009.

Walter “Wolfman” Washington
     Walter “Wolfman” Washington has been an icon on the New Orleans music scene for decades. His searing guitar work and soulful vocals have defined the Crescent City’s unique musical hybrid of R&B, funk and the blues since he formed his first band in the 1970s.

     Washington began his career during the fertile heyday of the 1950s Rhythm and Blues period that spawned dozens of Number 1 songs and made New Orleans the recording destination of choice for hit makers like Ray Charles and Little Richard. Born in 1943, Washington was on the road by his late teens spending over two years backing the great vocalist Lee Dorsey who was touring in support of his smash hits, “Ride Your Pony” and “Working in a Coalmine.”

     His tenure with Dorsey took him to all of the great music halls in America including appearances at the famed Apollo Theater in Harlem. Before he went out on his own with his Solar System band, he also did stints with acclaimed New Orleans songstress Irma Thomas as well as with the legendary jazzman David Lastie’s Taste of New Orleans band.

     During the 1970s, Washington began a 20-year association with one of the most important vocalists to hail from Louisiana- the late, great Johnny Adams. Dubbed “the Tan Canary” for his peerless vocal stylings, Adams was a mentor of sorts to Washington who developed his singing style while the two worked together at back-of-town clubs including a long stint at the famed Dorothy’s Medallion in the Mid City section of New Orleans.

     When Washington formed his first band as a leader he was often pigeonholed into the blues genre. But by taking his cues from the likes of Dorsey, Thomas, Adams and the jazzman Lastie, his sound reflects the full range of music from New Orleans. He certainly can howl the blues, hence his nickname, but his musical talents have always defined pure Crescent City soul. In later years, with the second rise of funk, Washington fully embraced that genre as well.

Joe Krown
Joe Krown's bio (www.joekrown.com/bio.htm)
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                                                                        Ricci Krown Trio
                                                                                                      

      Jason Ricci (harmonica and vocals) and Joe Krown (Hammond B-3 organ) started this trio with Doug Belote on drums in 2018. The trio started by playing regular shows at the New Orleans venues the Maple Leaf Bar and Chickie Wah Wah. The Trio has done some travel including the Sighisoara Blues Festival in Sighisoara Romania, the 801 Media Center in Fort Smith, AK, the Black Box Theater in Columbiana, AL and more. The trio made its debut at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and the French Quarter Festival in 2021. With the Trios debut release City Country City on Gulf Coast Records in September 2021, the Trio is now a regular fixture at local New Orleans venues and festivals & clubs all around the world.
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      The Joe Krown Trio is a New Orleans piano stylized trio. The Trio is based around the music Joe plays in a solo format. Just like Joe's solo performances, his Trio features the sound and styles of the New Orleans R&B and boogie-woogie piano players from the 1950s and 1960s and the early jazz stride piano players. The Trio can play a whole night of music from Professor Longhair, Allen Toussaint, James Booker, Dr. John, Fats Domino, etc. or a whole night of early New Orleans jazz and classic standards. The Joe Krown Trio can be Joe on piano with any combination of bass, drums, sax or guitar.
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     The resumes of John Fohl, Joe Krown and Johnny Sansone speak volumes about their talent. In their individual travels, these three versatile bluesmen have played with such giants as Dr. John, Mavis Staples, Robert Lockwood Jr., Jimmy Rogers, Bo Diddley, Pinetop Perkins, Hubert Sumlin Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Charlie Musselwhite, Allen Toussaint and Luther "Guitar Jr." Johnson. Collectively, they've released twenty-one albums as bandleaders. Now they've pooled their instrumental prowess and have returned to their roots. The trio regularly performs at local New Orleans venues such as Snug Harbor, the Maple Leaf, Buffa's Bar, Dos Jefes and Le Bon Temps Roule.

    "Sometimes you don't get to really play your influences as much as you'd like," says Sansone. This is bare bones, three soloists, and the solos can go any way. This is all meat and no potatoes."

     The songbooks mined by the trio stretch back to the 1920s and the esteemed piano/guitar duo Leroy Carr and Scrapper Blackwell. From there, the trail leads to the folk-influenced blues of Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, the spare Delta-born, Chicago-bred blues of Otis Spann and Robert Lockwood Jr., the slurred beat of dual guitarist/harpist Jimmy Reed, and the Louisiana swamp blues Lazy Lester and Slim Harpo. Add in touchstones like Fohl's love for finger-picking icon Merle Travis, Krown's prowess with Kansas City boogie-woogie, and Sansone's dead-on devotion to the piercing rural stylings of Sonny Boy Williamson II, and it's the makings of a trip through 20th century blues.

     The trio released their first self-titled CD Sansone Krown & Fohl in April 2004. Sansone Krown & Fohl won a 2004 Big Easy Award in the blues category.