Luther François and Emerson Nurse Quintet
@ Pigeon Island, St. Lucia Jazz Festival
6 May 2009

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Luther François biography

To be updated shortly.

Emerson Nurse biography

Jazz Pianist and Composer Emerson Nurse began his career in 1974 playing at Halcyon Days, one of the newest resorts on the island at the time. From that point on Nurse's career blossomed to include poetry and music, folk music and theatre and jazz.

Nurse recently founded the jazz band “Debat” but has worked extensively with St. Lucian jazz pioneers such as Ronald “Boo” Hinkson and Luther Francois. The pianist/composer has graced the stages of such jazz clubs as “Lickety Split” in Harlem, The Village Vanguard with Arnie Lawrence and has played at jazz festivals across the Caribbean including St. Kitts, Martinique, Grenada, Jamaica, Antigua and others. He has performed alongside such names as Bobby Watson, Andy Narrel and Rufus Reid.