CRYSTAL THOMAS BAND feat. LUCA GIORDANO
ΠΑΡΑΣΚΕΥΗ 12 – ΔΕΥΤΕΡΑ 15 ΑΠΡΙΛΙΟΥ
Half Note Jazz Club

Crystal Thomas using her voice as a positive influence and as encouragement. She enjoys lifting people up to be better, love better, and live better. Crystal Thomas is big and she's bluesy, and raw. She can grind a note and use it any way she wants. After all, she grew up listening to Muddy and Jimmy Reed and Johnnie Taylor and rapped, too. Gritty music is in her blood. She sang before she talked. She belts it out in church, in juke joints, wowing the crowds in Hong Kong, Japan and Europe. This woman sings with the kind of raw emotion that makes you glad you are alive - even if life it tough. Crystal is the real deal. She can tell you about growing up in Mansfield, Louisiana in the deep country. She remembers playing DJ while her family played cards and picking up the trombone in fifth grade because her brother had it and her mom didn't want to purchase another instrument.   

Luca Giordano was born in Teramo, Italy, 1980, Luca started to play his guitar when he was 20 years old, improving year by year his style with a deep passion for the Blues. After a period in Italy playing with his first band "Jumpin Eye Blues Quintet", he moves to Chicago where he starts much collaboration with several blues artists. He plays with Les Getrex Band, guitar player for Fats Domino, with Sharon Lewis and her Texas Fire Band, JW Williams for more than one month as substitution for his regular exceptional guitar player Shun Kikuta, who was touring with Koko Taylor. In the same period, he performs in many Italian festivals and clubs together with Sax Gordon, Nellie Tiger Travis, and with some of the best Italian musician. In 2008 he meets in Chicago, Eric “Guitar” Davis, and they start a very good collaboration and friendship. They play together with The Trouble Makers and also as sideman for Chicago Blues Legends.