LAFAYETTE BEN CHARLATAN  has been called the spawn of Leon Russell, Leon Redbone and Tom Waits.  He is a singing piano tickler who milks 20th century American musical styles from ragtime to vaudeville to show tunes to jazz to rhythym and blues, delivering his own unique melange with a showman's greasy, gritty passion.  His band “THE CHARLATONES”  back him up,  evoking a smoky jazz den, vibrating with echos of The Hot Five.

Lafayette & The Charlatones play at Fingerprints Music, Long Beach California, in April 2025