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New Orleans Jazz Orchestra
The New Orleans Jazz Orchestra was formed in 2002 and was designed to celebrate and fortify the American Jazz portfolio while providing infrastructure for developing the New Orleans Jazz Industry. Led by Artistic Director Adonis Rose, this 20-piece big band has an ever-increasing repertoire that exemplifies the influence of Jazz as the grandfather of all modern American music. NOJO has headlined all of America’s major performing arts venues and clubs and produced the first local, ticketed Jazz Concert Series in the history of New Orleans. NOJO’s album, BOOK ONE on World Village, a subsidiary of the Harmonia Mundi label, won the 2010 Grammy Award for “Best Large Jazz Ensemble.” It’s most recent album, Dee Dee’s Feather’s was released in 2015 and featured Grammy and Tony award-winning vocalist – Dee Dee Bridgewater.
Cyrille Aimée: Music Flows From Within
by Scott Lichtman
Renowned vocalist Cyrille Aimée possesses a wholly unique sound. Certainly, it is based on her voice timbre but also reflects her approach to music. She is equally adept at jazz standards and pop-jazz. She can swing and scat on cue, then shift to high tech sound loops. Songs in English, French and Spanish are delivered with ...
Master Drummer And Artistic Director Of The New Orleans Jazz Orchestra Releases His First Standards Album, 'For All We Know'
Renowned drummer and Artistic Director of the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra, Adonis Rose, releases his new ballads album For All We Know, featuring his trio and vocalist Gabrielle Cavassa, on Storyville Records. Gabrielle Cavassa (winner of the Sarah Vaughan competition in 2021) represents a new generation of wonderful and very talented new vocalists who knows the ...
Jazzascona Holds Its 39th Festival Edition From June 22-july 1 In Ascona, Switzerland With Stefano Di Battista Presenting A Tribute To Ennio Morricone, Adonis Rose & New Orleans Jazz Orchestra Featuring China Moses, And More
After a much-appreciated post-pandemic edition that highlighted the official partnership between New Orleans and Ascona, JazzAscona looks forward with renewed momentum and optimism to its 39th edition from June 22 to July 1, 2023, which offers a rich program with approximately 300 concerts and 270 invited artists, with over seventy musicians coming directly from New Orleans. ...
I Like You Best Of All - A Look Back To Notable 2021 Recordings, Part One
by Mary Foster Conklin
Happy New Year! This first broadcast of 2022 presents a final holiday recording from drummer Jeff Hamilton with new releases from The Count Basie Orchestra, Vijay Iyer, Adonis Rose & The New Orleans Jazz Orchestra featuring Cyrille Aimee plus a look back at some of the notable 2021 albums made despite the disruption of the pandemic ...
The Grammy Award-Winning New Orleans Jazz Orchestra Will Celebrate Its 19th Season With The Annual Big Beat Gala Fundraiser Hosted By Big Freedia On December 4th
The Grammy award-winning New Orleans Jazz Orchestra will celebrate its nineteenth season with the first annual Big Beat Gala fundraiser hosted by Big Freedia on Saturday, December 4th. The gala is co-chaired by renowned author Walter Isaacson, Laverne Toombs, Executive Director of the New Orleans Black Regional Chamber of Commerce, and Adonis Rose, Artistic Director of ...
Ron Westray: Life In Reverse. Tales of a Very Stable Narcissist
by Hans Christian Hagedorn
Life In Reverse. Tales of a Very Stable Narcissist Ron Westray 426 Pages ISBN: 9781839980398 First Hill Books / Anthem Press2021 Jazz trombonist Ron Westray (Columbia, SC, 1970) is a prestigious, unique, and generously gifted musician and composer, a brilliant educator, and most of all, an intelligent, witty and ...
Adonis Rose, New Orleans Jazz Orchestra, & Vocalist Cyrille Aimee Explore New Orleans' French Connection On New CD 'Petite Fleur'
The celebrated New Orleans Jazz Orchestra examines and the profound relationship of its hometown to the nation of France with its fall release of Petite Fleur on Storyville Records (digital release September 24, physical release October 15). The second album under the artistic directorship of drummer Adonis Rose features ten songs, nine of them standards associated ...
2020: The Year in Jazz
by Ken Franckling
The COVID-19 pandemic put the jazz world in a tailspin, just like the world at large, in 2020. And there is plenty of uncertainty going into the new year about what new normal: might emerge from the darkness. International Jazz Day, like so many other things, became an online virtual event this time around. Pianist Keith ...
Songs: The Music of Allen Toussaint
Label: Storyville Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: Southern Nights; It's Raining; Coal Mine; Ruler of My Heart; Java; Gert Town; With You in Mind; Zimple Street; Tequila