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Helping Pitre to keep things rolling are San Francisco sidemen Jeff Orchard on keys (including bass, organ and steel drum lines) and Santie Huckaby on congas.

“It’s digital folk music, but it's all the blues," says Pitre, a Port Arthur, Texas native, who performs as Coffee Picasso, a 21st Century storyteller.

Pitre's calling card is a pocket trumpet, which sends audiences swooning when he picks it up to be-bop, swing or samba through a tune.

A popular sideman on both U.S. coasts, Pitre's been working on Bohemian Knuckleboogie over the last several years and says his music has found its spot. He started song writing in the early 1990s while working in New York as a sideman playing straight-ahead jazz at places like the famed Blue Note, Visione’s, and Arthur’s Tavern.

While trying to stay afloat in the uncertain music biz Pitre tapped into the pop scene as a sideman for disco divas Gloria Gaynor and Rozalla. He played to big audiences around the world and fell under the spell of Gloria’s big hit “I Will Survive.” Pitre was also in Rozalla’s horn section and was in her video cover version of the O’Jays' “I Love Music” and for Al Pacino’s blockbuster movie “Carlito’s Way.”

Despite demand for his horn playing, Pitre felt like a fake aspiring to follow jazz greats in their mold. That began to change while residing in Brooklyn when he worked with Fugees’ producer Jerry Duplessis and met various artists such as Chris Rock who told him to be true to his vision.

Pitre decided to point his bow away from New York, first toward Texas, then San Francisco where Bohemian Knuckeboogie plays its brand of blues and swamp pop at venues like the Boom Boom Room and Rasellas.

Pitre is also playing his trumpet in SF-based bands like Sila and the Afro Funk Experience and Boomshanka. In addition, he’s worked with famed SF blues guitarist Joe Louis Walker, who first nicknamed Pitre “Picasso.” More importantly JLW provided Pitre a chance to be exposed to the Bay Area blues scene.

“Being from Texas, San Francisco has shown me a lot of love. They’ve let me fit in,” said Pitre, who considers his music “the swamp personified.”