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Aaron Neville & Branford Marsalis Added To NOJO 10 Anniversary At Carnegie Hall
THE NEW ORLEANS JAZZ ORCHESTRA, FEATURING IRVIN MAYFIELD AND SPECIAL GUESTS AARON NEVILLE, BRANFORD MARSALIS, DEE DEE BRIDGEWATER AND OTHERS CELEBRATES 10 YEARS, ONE NIGHT AT CARNEGIE HALL OCTOBER 8, 8:00 PM This Carnegie Hall debut is part of THE NOJO 10 concert series celebrating the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra’s 10th anniversary with 10 signature Jazz ...
Ben Jaffe: Preserving the Hall
by Wade Luquet
Preservation Hall was founded fifty years ago in a small art gallery in New Orleans' French Quarter by Allan and Sandra Jaffe as a place to preserve traditional jazz. Seven nights a week, tourists and locals enjoyed the best of this jazz style in the small performance space for just a few dollars collected at the ...
2011: The Year In Jazz
by Ken Franckling
The ebb and flow of jazz in 2011 was marked by a Grammy Awards coup, a Grammy dustup, economic changes that consolidated the recording industry a bit, impacted clubs in various locales, and provided some new opportunities. The U.S. Postal Service literally put its stamp on jazz, even as the government wrestled with the future of ...
Jazz & Blues Florida December 2011 Online Edition Posted
The new edition of Jazz & Blues Florida, Florida's free online source for information on live jazz and blues in clubs, concerts and festivals, is now available. The November 2011 online edition of JAZZ & BLUES FLORIDA has been posted at JazzBluesFlorida.com. This month's edition can be read in .pdf format, as well as in a ...
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. ...
New Book from LSU Press: Traditional New Orleans Jazz...
Longtime New Orleans jazz journalist has recently published a book, Traditional New Orleans Jazz, Conversations with the Men Who Make the Music (LSU Press, 2011). Baton Rouge, LA- About a century after its beginnings, traditional jazz remains the definitive music of New Orleans and an international hallmark of the city. In Traditional New Orleans Jazz veteran ...
Irvin Mayfield - A Love Letter to New Orleans (2011)
Putting together a luxe coffee-table book honoring the city of his birth clearly got Irvin Mayfield in a nostalgic mood. Those unfamiliar with Mayfield's intriguing blend of Afro-Cuban and straight-ahead jazz with island and Mardi Gras Indian polyrhythms are the beneficiaries, as Mayfield also compiled a greatest-hits CD of his work under the same title—A Love ...
New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, Days 4-7: May 5-8, 2011
by Sandy Ingham
Days 1-3 | Days 4-7 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival New Orleans, LA April 27-May 6, 2011 Day 4: Thursday May 5, 2011 Vibraphonist Stefon Harris and Blackout was the featured act in the WWOZ Jazz Tent, but Christian Scott stole the show. Scott--the young New ...
A Love Letter to New Orleans - An Interview with Irvin Mayfield
I spoke by phone today with New Orleans trumpeter and educator Irvin Mayfield about his beautiful new book, “A Love Letter To New Orleans." Mr. Mayfield talks about the beauty of being influenced by the film Mo Better Blues, musical and cultural similarities between NOLA and places like Haiti, Cuba, Brazil, and the beauty of New ...
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