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Spirit Of New Orleans

Helsinki based Spirit Of New Orleans a.k.a. SONO was founded in the fall of 2001. The band's goal is to play New Orleans jazz as it is played in jazz's birthplace today. The music scene in New Orleans is still very vibrant - even after Katrina - and the city has numerous jazz bands playing in different styles. These bands like the Leroy Jones Quintet, Kermit Ruffins & The Barbecue Swingers, Bob French's Original Tuxedo Jazz Band and others are the inspiration for SONO. The aim is to play hip, funky, hard-swinging, yet traditional jazz that will get the people dancing and feeling good - not forgetting the artistic standards. During its first years Spirit Of New Orleans has been working with Leroy Jones, one of New Orleans' finest trumpeters, with the very fine vocalists Tricia Boutté and Yolanda Windsay from New Orleans and Miriam Aïda from Sweden, and with Finnish singers Eeppi Ursin and Susanna Mesiä

New Orleans Jazz 95 Miles North of the Arctic Circle

January 1, 2011

Leroy Jones and Spirit of New Orleans are playing Ylläs Jazz Blues, one of the world's northernmost jazz festivals in Finnish Lapland. Helsinki-based group Spirit Of New Orleans (SONO) is headed to Ylläs in the end of January with one of New Orleans' top trumpeters, Leroy Jones, as its soloist. Ylläs Jazz Blues is one of ...

Spirit of New Orleans Performs at the Riverboat Jazz Festival in Denmark

May 11, 2009

Spirit Of New Orleans, the Helsinki-based band that was founded in 2001, will be performing at the Riverboat Jazz Festival in Silkeborg, Denmark June 25-27, 2009. This is the first time in the festival's 44- year history that jazz musicians from Finland are a part of the performer roster. Riverboat Jazz Festival is one Europe's biggest ...

Some Of These Days

By Spirit Of New Orleans

Label: SONOP - Spirit Of New Orleans Productions
Released: 2006