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New Orleans Jazz Fest draws 400,000+

Read "New Orleans Jazz Fest draws 400,000+" reviewed by Sandy Ingham


New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival New Orleans, LAApril 22-May 4, 2009There are hundreds of good reasons for jazz lovers to join the crowds at the annual New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. Reasons with names like Marsalis and Jordan, Batiste and Boutte--families whose musical heritage in the Birthplace of Jazz spans several ...

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40th New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival Preview

Read "40th New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival Preview" reviewed 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 ...

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Blue Crescent

Label: Basin Street Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: Comme Ci Comme Sa; Blue Crescent; St. Louis Blues; Crescent City Calypso; Katrina; Sunday Morning; Dark Sunshine; King of the Second Line; He Leads Me On This Journey; London Canal Breakdown; Majestic Strut; Algeria; Ooh La La (Danse Creole); Will the Circle Be Unbroken.

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Dr. Michael White: Blue Crescent

Read "Blue Crescent" reviewed by John Barron


The recovery of New Orleans from the effects of Hurricane Katrina has been slow coming. The city's musical community has been devastated by the forced relocation of numerous first-rate performers. Despite all the pain and tragedy of the last three years, local artists like clarinetist/educator Dr. Michael White are able to find solace in the enduring ...

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Article: Megaphone

Mark Samuels: Basin Street In and Out of New Orleans

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By Mark SamuelsWhen I was invited to have one of our many artists write for All About Jazz's Megaphone column, I envisioned sitting down on the phone with one of them and typing as they talked. What has happened in the two or three weeks since has been amazing and has kept us from ...

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Dr. Michael White: Dancing in the Sky

Read "Dancing in the Sky" reviewed by Joel Roberts


I've had the good fortune to spend the last few New Year's Eves in New Orleans, sampling the Crescent City's always-tasty menu of music, food and high-spirited holiday hospitality. But if I were back here in New York and looking for a place to usher in the year with appropriate laissez le bon temps roule flair, ...

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Dancing In The Sky

Label: Basin Street Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: Algiers Hoodoo Woman; Dancing in the Sky (Reflection); The Truth of the Blues; Give it up (Gypsy Second Line); The Hag

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Dr. Michael White: Dancing In The Sky

Read "Dancing In The Sky" reviewed by Jim Santella


Traditional jazz gives you the kind of feeling that cannot come from other forms of music. Folkloric in its content, the songs connect you with history. It sets your mind at ease. “Dancing in the Sky” places you in the midst of a New Orleans funeral procession, as everyone returns from the cemetery and decides to ...

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Jazz from the Soul of New Orleans

Label: Basin Street Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: Hindustan; If We Ever Needed Jesus; Summertime; Martinique; In The Beautiful Garden Of Prayer; Fidgety Feet; Horn Man Blues; Caribbean Girl; Late Night Blues; Red Wing; In The Sweet Bye And Bye. (Total Time: 52.34).

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Dr. Michael White: Jazz from the Soul of New Orleans

Read "Jazz from the Soul of New Orleans" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


At the burning bush...   The problem I have had with Dr. Michael White has been that I felt him overtly reverent to New Orleans Jazz to the point of its asphyxiation (a complaint I frequently voice for Wynton Marsalis and the music of Ellington on). Jazz from the Soul of New Orleans causes me to ...


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