“Musical Wonder-Twins” jazz musicians Debbie Davis and Josh Paxton will kick off their tour of Midwest and Mid-Atlantic states at 6 p.m. Wednesday at the Player’s Pub in Bloomington, according to a press release.
The two New Orleans residents have played together for almost 20 years in the United States as well as in Switzerland, Italy and France. Davis, a member of the vocal trio The Pfister Sisters, has performed with with John Boutte, Soul Asylum, The Misfits, Dukes of Dixieland and Leigh “Lil Queenie” Harris, according to the release.
Harris introduced Davis to Paxton, who has played with Harris, The Pfister Sisters, Maria Muldaur, Bruce Hornsby, the Afghan Whigs and The Wild Tchopitoulas. He studied under jazz pianist Ellis Marsalis Jr., and his transcriptions of piano repertoire have become standard reference tools for pianists, according to the release.
Davis and Paxton, with a shared love of Duke Ellington, Jellyroll Morton, Stevie Wonder and Randy Newman, will be traveling on to Kentucky; Virginia; Washington, D.C.; West Virginia; and Louisiana after their stop in Indiana, according to the tour’s calendar.
Maia Rabenold
