Jazz Articles

Heritage Hall Jazz Band: Live at the American Theatre

by Glenn Astarita
November 21, 2006

Now entering its third decade, the Heritage Hall Jazz Band performed a concert at the American Theater in Hampton, Virginia, one year and a day after hurricane Katrina ravaged New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. Producer Paul Lentz's insightful liner notes provide a time stamp amid the chaos and adverse conditions in the wake of the hurricane, where New Orleans' traditional jazz legacy entered into a holding pattern. Musicians had no choice other than to seek work elsewhere, and thus ...