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Allen Toussaint: The Bright Mississippi
by Mike Perciaccante
When asked about Allen Toussaint, Van Dyke Parks once said, “he's the greatest pianist alive, only no one knows it... including him." High praise from one legend to another. With The Bright Mississippi, Toussaint has finally released a jazz-oriented album. Though jazz-influences can be found on many of his rock/funk sides as well as in many ...
President Obama Presents Gershwin Prize for Popular Song to Stevie Wonder
STEVIE WONDER RECEIVES GERSHWIN PRIZE FOR POPULAR SONG PRESIDENT OBAMA TO PRESENT PRIZE FEBRUARY 25 Wonder Performs Commissioned Piece for Library of Congress on February 23 Washington DC, February 16, 2009 - President Barack Obama will give the Second Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song to Stevie Wonder on Feb. 25 at a special ...
Bon Jovi Set for First Jazz Fest Appearance New Orleans
Bon Jovi has been added to the lineup of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, which celebrates its 40th anniversary this spring. The rock act will make its first appearance at the festival on May 2. Bon Jovi joins previously announced performers Aretha Franklin, Dave Matthews Band, Wilco, James Taylor, Wynton Marsalis, Kings Of Leon, ...
Jazz Fest Daily Schedule
Jazz Fest Daily Schedule Jazz Fest '08 by McCullough The 2009 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, set to run April 24-26 & April 30-May 3, has released their daily schedule. They've also announced that Bon Jovi will join already announced headliners: Wynton Marsalis, Dave Matthews Band, James Taylor, Sugarland, Joe Cocker, Ben Harper, Tony Bennett, ...
40th New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival Preview
by Tod Smith
Seven days, two weekends, forty years. No matter how you measure it, the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival Presented by Shell is a musical and cultural rite of spring for hundreds of thousands of visitors each year. From its humble beginnings at Congo Square, to this the 40th anniversary, Jazz Fest always provides enough musical ...
Allen Toussaint and Preservation Hall Jazz Orchestra in London
by John Eyles
Allen Toussaint and Preservation Hall Jazz Orchestra The Barbican London, England June 4th, 2007 They say it is an ill wind that blows no-one any good. Well, Hurricane Katrina was certainly one of the illest winds ever to blow through New Orleans, leaving the city ruined and many thousands ...
Branford & Ellis Marsalis: The Dawn of Marsalis Music
by Mark Corroto
The first family of jazz, the Marsalis of New Orleans, have seemingly been in the eye of a musical hurricane for the past twenty years. With the news that Saxophonist Branford Marsalis and his father Ellis Marsalis had severed their ties with Sony music, comes the announcement that they have formed the independent label Marsalis Music. ...
Allen Toussaint, et al. / Amadee Castenell (NYNO Records: Allen Toussaint and Various Artists
by C. Michael Bailey
Bon Ton NYNO. Contemporary Louisiana music is alive and well and being projected by the New York-based label NYNO Records. NYNO was founded in 1995, the brainchild of radio syndicator Josh Feigenbaum and pianist, composer, arranger, producer par excellence Allen Toussaint. The stated goal of the label is... “to record and distribute the roots and blues-oriented ...
