Jimmy Carpenter – 7/28 — Saxophonist, singer-songwriter, arranger, and Gulf Coast Records recording artist, Jimmy Carpenter is on a roll! He won the 2021 and 2022 Blues Music Award for Best Instrumentalist/Horn . And he is now a Grammy-Winning Composer , for a composition he contributed to the New Orleans Nightcrawlers’ winning album, Atmosphere . Jimmy has toured internationally with Tinsley Ellis, Jimmy Thackery, Walter Wolfman Washington, Eric Lindell, and Mike Zito and the Wheel . 2019’s Soul Doctor , his first album on Gulf Coast Records, was extremely well-received worldwide, and in September 2022 he released his fifth solo album , The Louisiana Record , a collection of his favorite New Orleans songs, also on Gulf Coast. He has been a working musician for over 40 years, spent many years in New Orleans, and n
