Dr. Lonnie Smith Trio at Burlington Discover Jazz Festival at Flynn Center for The Performing Arts

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Simultaneously legendary and enigmatic, Dr. Lonnie Smith is one of the most dominant and original voices on the Hammond B3 organ. A phenomenal B3 burner who can “light up a room with visceral intensity or lay down some of the nastiest funk ever played” (JazzTimes), Smith has been named Organ Keyboardist of the Year by the Jazz Journalists Association no fewer than five times. Smith’s riffs have been sampled and remixed by countless rap, house mix, acid jazz and dance artists, and his interpretations of The Beatles, John Coltrane, Beck, Eurythmics, and Jimi Hendrix are transformative.