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Kristina Morales celebrates the release of her debut album "Wonderful World"
Introducing Kristina Morales With the debut of her album, Kristina Morales' Wonderful World is brewing with unique arrangements and playful interpretations. The vocalist charms listeners with a vulnerable passion setting her music a part from the everyday and monotonous. Rooted in jazz, the band pushes through to new genres blending and sifting in a delicate ballet ...
National Park Service: Songs of the Lower Mississippi Delta
by Wade Luquet
Park rangers often conjure up images of uniformed guardians of historical monuments or natural resources in national forests. In New Orleans, these same uniformed rangers guard one of the United States' most precious resources--jazz and the music of the American south. The rangers of the New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park are musicians and historians who ...
Joe McPhee / Michael Zerang: Creole Gardens (A New Orleans Suite)
by John Sharpe
In these recessionary times, the duet offers the optimum solution: the opportunity for dialogue and interaction, but with logistics and expense kept to a minimum. Of course, such strictures are nothing new for the avant-garde, those flowers which bloom between the cracks in the marginal wastelands. Multi-instrumentalist Joe McPhee's résumé includes more than its fair share ...
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 ...
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. ...
Fritzel's New Orleans Jazz Band: Fritzel's New Orleans Jazz Band Volume Two
by Wade Luquet
Coming off of the success of its first studio CD, Fritzel's Jazz Band delivers once again with its fifteen-song Volume Two. Fritzel's is the venerable forty year-old New Orleans jazz club, located in the 700 block of Bourbon Street that has established an international reputation for Dixieland jazz in a fun European-style bar setting. This CD ...
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 ...
New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival 2011
by Sandy Ingham
Days 1-3 | Days 4-7 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival New Orleans, LA April 27-May 6, 2011 Day 1: April 29, 2011The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival turned 42 this year. I've been to 25, and the thrill of anticipation entering the fairgrounds and crossing to the ...
Jazz at the 2011 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival presented by Shell
Sonny Rollins, Kenny G, Ahmad Jamal, Fourplay, Mingus Big Band, Plus New Orleans' Own Pete Fountain, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Terence Blanchard, Nicholas Payton, Irvin Mayfield, Hundreds More To Put the “Jazz" in the 2011 New Orleans Jazz Fest New Orleans, LA—Jazz Superstar Sonny Rollins returns to the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival presented by ...
Piron's New Orleans Orchestra: Piron's New Orleans Orchestra
by Andrew J. Sammut
Listeners accustomed to the wail and stomp of early New Orleans jazz might be surprised to hear the whisper and glide of Piron's New Orleans Orchestra. While famed pioneers such as Louis Armstrong, Sidney Bechet, and Johnny Dodds spoke from the earthy tradition of the outdoor parade, Piron's orchestra illustrated the smooth sounds of indoor entertainment. ...
