50. Jazzwoche Burghausen 2019: Lucky Peterson

Burghausen has been a byword for jazz since 1970. For one week every March, the small town on the Salzach river turns into the German New Orleans. Ella Fitzgerald, Chris Barber, Roy Hargrove, Chick Corea and Dave Brubeck have all performed in Burghausen. The annual jazz week is one of the biggest festivals of its kind in the world. EuroArts presents a series of live recordings as well as a documentary about the legendary Jazz festival.

Lucky Peterson is a true master of the blues guitar. Celebrating his 50th anniversary performing professionally in 2019, he started out his career in the tender age of just three years old. Born in Buffalo, NY in 1964, the son of James Peterson, a renowned blues guitarist and owner of  a popular roadhouse club in the city. The young Lucky always hung around the club, learning from and starting to play with the numerous artists that passed through. After one of the top artists of the day, Willie Dixon, recognized his talent he produced Little Lucky Peterson’s first album when he was only 5 years old. With this first album Little Lucky managed to grab the attention of the whole country with a hit song written for him by his father. The rest is, as they say, blues history.