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Paris, New Orleans and the UN General Assembly to celebrate International Jazz Day with UNESCO
Musicians and fans from all five continents will celebrate the first-ever International Jazz Day on 30 April. UNESCO proclaimed the Day during its General Conference late last year, to recognize jazz as a universal language of freedom and creativity. Festivities start at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris on 27 April with a series of master classes, round ...
DC Jazz Festival Receives NEA Jazz Masters Live Grant
The DC Jazz Festival (DCJF) today announced that it has been awarded a National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Jazz Masters Live grant for the fifth year. The DCJF was one of 12 non-profits selected to receive a total of $135,000 in funding. NEA Jazz Masters Live grants help bring legendary musicians, writers, producers and scholars ...
Jimmy Owens: The Monk Project
by Dan Bilawsky
Albums built on the idea of reworking the music of Thelonious Monk have become so commonplace as to risk being seen as old hat before the shrink wrap even comes off the CD, but the success or failure of these projects doesn't rest with the actual recasting of the legendary pianist's work. The manner by which ...
A New Orleans Christmas Carol
Label: ELM Music
Released: 2011
Track listing: O Tannenbaum; The Little Drummer Boy; We Three Kings; A Child Is Born; God Rest You Merry, Gentleman; It Came Upon A Midnight Clear; O Holy Night; Winter Wonderland; Christmas Time Is Here; Silent Night; O Little Town Of Bethlehem; Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas; Christmas Joy; Sleigh Ride; Greensleeves; The Christmas Song; We Wish You A Merry Christmas; Winter Wonderland (Remix); Hark! The Herald Angels Sing; The Little Drummer Boy.
Ellis Marsalis - A New Orleans Christmas Carol (2011)
An expanded version of a 2002 Yuletide project, A New Orleans Christmas Carol impressively expands the original collaboration with Marsalis' son Jason (on drums and vibes), bassist Bill Huntington and vocalist Cynthia Liggins Thomas. The result is a tour-de-force for the often under-exposed patriarch of the Marsalis jazz family, and a seasonal record of sumptuous charm. ...
Five Golden Rings for Christmas
by C. Michael Bailey
The 2011 holidays are nearly upon us and with them, the requisite focused recordings. The number of such offerings has diminished in the last number of years. What has not diminished is the quality of the recordings, as evidenced by these five “golden rings." Happy holidays, jazz fans. Elisabeth Lohninger Band
Some Good News from New Orleans
For the first time since Hurricane Katrina, the Cove, the hub of student life at the University of New Orleans for decades, will reopen at a ceremony on Friday, December 2. Governor Bobby Jindal, Senator Mary Landrieu, University of Louisiana System President Randy Moffett, and UNO Interim Chancellor Joe King will speak at the ribbon cutting ...
Ellis Marsalis: A New Orleans Christmas Carol
by Dan Bilawsky
Christmas music doesn't usually come into stores, radios and homes until Thanksgiving time but, in a year when snow covered the East Coast before Halloween, early arrivals seem to be the norm. Guitarist Doug Munro delivered a Django Reinhardt-styled set of holiday classics on A Very Gypsy Christmas (GotMusic, 2011) in September; pianist Geri Allen tackled ...
Take Five With Lenny Marcus
by AAJ Staff
Meet Lenny Marcus: Lenny Marcus hails from Washington, DC, but studied, performed and recorded for many years in New Orleans, LA, before relocating to Roanoke, VA. He is leader on 18 albums, and has studied and recorded with many jazz legends, including David “Fathead" Newman, Brian Lynch, Sonny Fortune, Frank Foster, Charlie Byrd, Herb ...
Traditional New Orleans Jazz, Conversations with the Men Who Make the Music
by Thomas W. Jacobsen
This article, adapted by the author, appears in Chapter 5 of Traditional New Orleans Jazz, Conversations with the Men Who Make the Music by Thomas W. Jacobsen (LSU Press, 2011). Irvin Mayfield: Boy Wonder Sometimes people live long enough to fulfill the promise of their youth, and sometimes they don't. ...
