Results for "Kent Jordan"

Kent Jordan

Born: October 28, 1958

Sullivan Fortner: Nothing's Ever Finished

by Andrew Schinder
July 9, 2026

Modern jazz musicians are often faced with the impossible, and frankly unfair, task of honoring the music's history and traditions while adding modern elements and contemporary facets to make a 125-year-old musical genre sound fresh. This burden falls even more acutely on musicians hailing from, or who are particularly associated with, the City of New Orleans. ...

Lonnie Davis: Lighting Up Charlotte with Jazz

by K. Shackelford
October 19, 2024

In the '90s, fierce jazz curator, flutist, and educator Lonnie Davis found herself as the only female in The University of New Orleans jazz program. Prior to that, she studied under jazz patriarch Ellis Marsalis while a high school student at the highly selective and musically rigorous New Orleans Center for Creative Arts. The brilliant music ...

The Musical Jordan Family Featured At Swearing In Of Congressman Richmond As Chair Of CBC; Watch Live Stream

January 3, 2017

New Orleans’ musical Jordan family, represented by Stephanie Jordan, Rachel Jordan and Marlon Jordan have been invited by Congressman Cedric Richmond, D-LA to be the featured musical guests at the swearing in of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) of the 115th Congress. This past November, Representative Richmond was elected Chair of the Congressional Black Caucus and ...

Take Five With Sarpay Ozcagatay

by AAJ Staff
May 26, 2013

Meet Sarpay Özçağatay:Sarpay Özçağatay born in Ankara, Turkey, is a talented flutist, EWI player, composer, performer, and bandleader. Sarpay has performed with many jazz musicians and legends such as Ron Carter, Kevin Eubanks, David Fiuczynski. Terri Lyne Carrington, Eric Gould, Greg Osby, Steve Turre, and many more. He studied classical ...

A Conversation with Kent Jordan in New Orleans

October 28, 2011

One growing sector of the burgeoning jazz education field is the number of jazz camps across the globe. A few weeks back we ran our conversation with Jackie Harris, founder & CEO of the Louis “Satchmo" Armstrong Summer Jazz Camp. Held every July at Loyola University in New Orleans, you can read more about the camp ...

Kent Jordan: Out of This World

by Tod Smith
August 4, 2004

It could be argued that Kent Jordan's new Funkshenal Art Media release Out of This World is not new at all. Jordan, who originally recorded this CD for another record label over ten years ago, withdrew it in 1994 when it became apparent that he and the label could not come to terms over the project's ...

Turning Point

By Kevin Eubanks

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 1992
Track listing: Turning Point (Part I; Aftermath (Part II); Initiation (Part III); New World Order; Colors of One; Spiral Ways; Freedom Child; On My Way to Paradise; Lingering Destiny.

Essence

By Kent Jordan

Label: Candid
Released: 1988

Night Aire

By Kent Jordan

Label: Candid
Released: 1986