Judy Blair

She played in duo (vocals, piano) with the late Serge Oustiakine (bass) at Albas Jazz in the Lot earlier in 2013 (June). On Valentine's Day (February 14, 2014) she played a solo concert in Lherm (in the Lot).

On May 7, 2014, she teamed up with François Bréant (composer, keyboard player, vocalist & producer) to play for charity again for the Rotary Club of Cahors. This concert was dedicated to music from the sixties and all benefits went to medical research for children's kidney disease.

She played two evenings of Blues & Rock as a member of the band "Gary Brooker and Friends" Gary (vocals, keyboard), Andy Fairweather Low (guitar and vocals), Dave Bronze (bass) and Paul Beavis (drums) at Le Vigan in August 2013.

Blair and Brooker played two concerts, August 2010 and 2011 at Abbaye Nouvelle in S.W. France (Lot).

In Spain at the Autumn Jazz Festival in Castilla with Alvin Queen (drums) and Reggie Johnson (bass), also in Leon, Valladolid, Reus, Palencia. In Tunisia at Tabarka Jazz Festival in 2006 (with Abdu Salim on sax and Christian Salut on drums). In Sicily in 2007 (Catania and Syracuse) with Sarah Morrow (trombone) and Julie Saurey (drums). She was in a travel film for Japanese TV with Dino Vera (drums).

Blair helps organize charity concerts near and dear to her heart such as : SOS Katrina in 2005 in Cahors and SOS Haïti in February 2010 where she invited her friend Gary Brooker, singer, keyboard player and founder / leader of the famous group Procol Harum. She was invited by Gary to play in Woking, England alongside himself, Eric Clapton & band which included Andy Fairweather Low and Dave Bronze in 2009 & 2011 (New Year's Eve).

Blair performs at numerous concerts as a solo artist as well as with different musical formations, especially in France (3 times at Jazz in Marciac in 1995, 1998 and 2006, twice at Cahors Blues Festival in 1996 and 2009, in Aiguillon, Montauban, Mirepoix, Le Touquet, Villeneuve-sur-Lot Jazz & Blues Festival, Rion International Piano Festival, Monsegur 24 Hour Swing, Enghien les Bains, Toulouse, Souillac, Vaison la Romaine) as well as in other countries.

In 1994, Judy Blair moved to Southwest France, settling in the Quercy region near the city of Cahors in the Lot. As she was spending more time focusing on writing and composing music, she recorded and published 4 albums which all include some of her original material.

Judy Blair went to the Caribbean (St. Martin / St. Maarten) in 1986 where she stayed a couple of years working with a band called "Tropix".

She stayed with the group 9 months before returning to Texas with Dino Vera, a drummer who she met in New Orleans during this time. They formed a band together called "Love Era" which toured Texas, California, New Mexico and Colorado with different formations (mostly 4 piece groups where Judy was played Hammond B3) from 1970 to 1984.

In 1969, Judy and Johnny left the Milestones to join another R&B "pop" recording group called "Eternity's Children", who had a record on the charts named "Mrs. Bluebird".

Judy Blair (born December 29, 1948) is an American musician, singer, piano and Hammond B3 organ player, a composer of jazz, blues, rhythm & blues and boogie music. She is a Hammond organ virtuoso whose musical career began in the United States in the 1960s and continues in France where she has lived since 1994. She has recorded four solo albums.

Judy Blair began playing organ after becoming completely passionate after playing her cousin's Hammond. At that time, she was mostly listening to Blues and Rhythm & Blues artists (Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, Otis Redding, Sam Cooke, Marvin Gaye to name a few) while hearing a lot of jazz at home because her father loved Louis Armstrong and jazz from the 1940s.