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Performance / Tour

New Orleans Helsinki Connection - Together Again: At Last!

Source: Spirit Of New Orleans Productions
March 5, 2015

This April will be the first time in years that New Orleans Helsinki Connection's original lineup, featured on the band's debut album “At Last," is playing together. The all star band was first conceived in the summer of 2001 when Tricia Boutté, Katja Toivola, and Thomas Rönnholm were on a lengthy tour in Finland. One night, the troika got together, pondering the subject of how nice it would be to have a band consisting of friends who can play. “We ...

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Career

New Orleans Trumpeter Leroy Jones Performed At Super Bowl VI In 1972

Source: Spirit Of New Orleans Productions
January 30, 2013

Super Bowl VI, on January 16, 1972, was played in New Orleans' Tulane Stadium between the Dallas Cowboys and Miami Dolphins. The halftime entertainment consisted of a “Salute to Louis Armstrong", a tribute to Crescent City's best-known trumpeter who had passed away the previous year, on July 6, 1971. The show featured a then 13-year-old Leroy Jones as “Little Louis Armstrong" along with other performers the Onward Brass Band, Danny Barker, Carol Channing, Ella Fitzgerald and Al Hirt. The Onward ...

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Performance / Tour

Jazz Returns To Bourbon Street

Source: Spirit Of New Orleans Productions
July 1, 2012

New Orleans' Bourbon Street is returning to its original music one club at a time as rhythms of authentic New Orleans jazz float through the summer air. Up until the 1980's the sounds of jazz were flowing out of several bars and clubs on Bourbon Street. Blue Angel had George Finola with Clarence Ford and Ed Frank, the Famous Door featured Lady Charlotte, La Strada had June Gardner and his Gentlemen of Jazz, Frenchy's Leroy Jones & New Orleans' Finest, ...

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Recording

New Orleans Helsinki Connection Releases New Album Paradise On Earth

Source: Spirit Of New Orleans Productions
May 9, 2012

It’s been eight years since their debut album At Last and now; another collaboration from this diverse ensemble once again ferrying jazz lovers to a better understanding of musical intimacy. Along with a fresh set of titles, the band’s lineup is also slightly augmented on this new, captivating recording. Finnish based drummer and co-founder of the group, Thomas Rönnholm, doesn’t appear amongst the personnel this time. But co-founder, bandleader, trombonist Katja Toivola is an irrefutable force along with vocalist Tricia ...

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