Results for "Derek Douget"

Derek Douget

Jazz Empowers Hosts Virtual Mardi Gras Jazz Festival

February 18, 2021

Jazz Empowers, a national nonprofit organization that supports jazz programs in underserved schools, is celebrating Mardi Gras with a Virtual Mardi Gras Jazz Festival. The jazz festival will include an exclusive performance from Jazz Empowers instructor Ricky Sebastian and his Carnival Time Band featuring Derek Douget on Tenor Saxophone, Ashlin Parker on trumpet, Don Vappie on ...

Nu Jazz Entertainment/ELM Records Announces The Vinyl Release Of An 80th Birthday Celebration! From NEA Jazz Master Ellis Marsalis In Celebration Of His 82nd Birthday For A Limited Time!

October 31, 2016

Nu Jazz Entertainment/ELM Records—two long time producers of high quality audio and video content in the genre of jazz—announced the November 2016 release of a vinyl album, Ellis Marsalis: An 80th Birthday Celebration (Limited Edition), from the NEA Jazz Master. The double disc vinyl album will be released through the Pledge Music distribution platform with a ...

Ellis Marsalis: New York City, NY, November 9, 2012

by Nick Catalano
December 8, 2012

Although pianist Ellis Marsalis has garnered countless plaudits for his teaching at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts and as chair of the Jazz Studies department at the University of New Orleans he rarely gets critical notice in these parts for his pianism. For decades, he has shaped the lives of countless jazz musicians including ...

New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, Days 4-7: May 5-8, 2011

by Sandy Ingham
May 26, 2011

Days 1-3 | Days 4-7 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival New Orleans, LA April 27-May 6, 2011 Day 4: Thursday May 5, 2011 Vibraphonist Stefon Harris and Blackout was the featured act in the WWOZ Jazz Tent, but Christian Scott stole the show. Scott--the young New ...

Perpetual Motion

By Derek Douget

Label: Lookout Jazz
Released: 2002
Track listing: G.O.A., Sir Remy, Scrambler, Friendships, Hot House, Madness, Finally, Session Blues, CODA

Derek Douget: Perpetual Motion

by Dan McClenaghan
November 6, 2002

Saxophonist Derek Douget's roots run deep in Louisiana: a native of the city of Gonzales, a degree in Jazz Studies at The University of New Orleans, the musical diretor of The Ellis Marsalis Quintet, performing stints with Nicolas Payton, Jason Marsalis, Delfeayo Marsalis and Roland Guerin. Perpetual Motion is Douget's first outing as a ...