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Ottawa Jazz Festival 2009: Days 1-3, June 25-27, 2009
by John Kelman
Days 1-3 | Days 4-6 John Stetch TV Trio / Dave Douglas Brass Ecstasy / Roberta Gambarini Toshiko Akiyoshi Trio / Jimmy Cobb's So What Band; S.M.V. The Botos Brother / Trombone Shorty and Orleans Avenue / Al GreenTD Canada Trust Ottawa International Jazz Festival Ottawa, Ontario, Canada ...
Strippers and Be-Boppers in Postwar New Orleans Jazz
by Charles Suhor
The article below was adapted by the author, a native Orleanian, from Jazz in New Orleans: the Postwar Years Through 1970 (Scarecrow Press/Rutgers Institute of Jazz Studies, 2001). New Orleans was a hotbed of jazz activity in many styles during the years after World War II, but it has been largely unrecognized by critics ...
Irvin Mayfield and the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra Release New CD, "Book One"
IRVIN MAYFIELD AND THE NEW ORLEANS JAZZ ORCHESTRA RELEASE NEW CD, “BOOK ONE” DURING JAZZ FEST! Book One will be available at the New Orleans Jazz Fest Music Tent, LA Music Factory and Peaches Records. New Orleans -- Irvin Mayfield and The New Orleans Jazz Orchestra (NOJO) announced today that they are issuing a limited local ...
Jazz in New Orleans: A 2009 Status Report
by Wade Luquet
It is difficult, if not impossible, to destroy a culture. Hurricane Katrina tried to do so in New Orleans, but New Orleans is proving too strong to be taken down by the flooding that soaked eighty percent of the city when the poorly built federal levees failed. While hundreds of the city's musicians lost their instruments ...
Irvin Mayfield to Help New Orleans Libraries
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Jazz trumpeter Irvin Mayfield has traveled the world playing for audiences in smoky bars and buttoned-up concert halls, and he knows the sounds, tastes and sights of this city are unlike those anywhere else. So, he says, the city's library system should be just as unique. Mayfield intends to unveil a plan ...
Strange Fruit
Label: Basin Street Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Movement I (Narration #1/Opening Statement/The Beginning of the End); Movement II
(Narration #2/Oral Traditions of the South/The Elder Negro Speaks); Movement III
(Narration #3/Color Lines); Movement IV (Narration #4/Ballad of the Hot Long Night);
Movement V (Narration #5/Beat); Movement VI (Narration #6/The Lynch Mob/Hoopin
Mark Samuels: Basin Street In and Out of New Orleans
by AAJ Staff
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 ...
Irvin Mayfield: Hombre of Hot Music and Vital Education
by R.J. DeLuke
For a young trumpet player, New Orleans native son Irvin Mayfield is a busy man, yet in a particularly interesting way. He performs in a variety of groups, which isn't out of the ordinary for a working musician these days. But he also serves--with great pleasure, mind you--as a cultural ambassador, not only for his city, ...
Half Past Autumn Suite
Label: Basin Street Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: Moonscape; Love Petals; Evening; Jazz Poetry #2; Flowerscape; Fatimah; Jazz
Poetry #1; Blue Dawn; Wind Song; Toward Infinity. (Total Time 61:19).
