Jon Cleary and his New Orleans sound coming to The Continental Club. ContClubHouston
Jon Cleary has spent his life delving into New Orleans music and he returns to Houston on Friday, May 26 to perform at The Continental Club.Anyone who has taken a trip into the marvelous rabbit hole that is New Orleans style piano music is bound to have passed a tune or two by the amazing. Since moving to New Orleans 41 years ago from his home in England, Cleary has gone deeper into the history of the city’s music than most.
In a clear example of fate stepping in where a desire is fermenting, just before Cleary set off to New Orleans, one of his uncle’s ex-girlfriends handed him a matchbook for the historicwith a phone number written on it. She instructed him to call her sister who worked there once he landed in New Orleans.
“When I walked in, Earl King was playing,” says Cleary, who immediately got a job as a painter and later began playing music at the Maple Leaf which at the time served as a laundromat and gun shop as well as a music venue and watering hole.
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