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Engine Studies: New Orleans Suite and Three Fifths
by Florence Wetzel
Andrew Lamb Trio New Orleans Suite Engine Studios 2006 Paul Steinbeck Quintet Three Fifths Engine Studios 2005 New Orleans Suite was recorded by the Andrew Lamb Trio ...
New Orleans Jazz Fest: Guilty Pleasures in a Surreal Setting
by Sandy Ingham
New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival New Orleans, Louisiana April 28-30 & May 5-7, 2006 They said it couldn't be done. After Hurricaine Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast, many doubted the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Fest would go on this year as it has every April and May since ...
The Happy Pals: New Orleans Party Orchestra
by Edward Blanco
The city of New Orleans may never be the same after Hurricane Katrina, but the monster storm will not dampen the spirit of the jazz music for which it is known. New Orleans jazz is alive and well and has taken root in, of all places, Toronto, Canada. The Toronto-based Happy Pals septet, which has been ...
Why New Orleans Matters
by Sandy Ingham
Why New Orleans Matters Tom Piazza Regan Books/HarperCollins Hardcover; 192 pages ISBN: 0061124834 2005 It's not strictly about jazz. It's all about the city that gave birth to the music. And just as happens in that magical, mysterious place, Tom Piazza's lyrical love song to, and ...
New Orleans: New Orleans Mardi Gras
by Jim Santella
Ravaged by storms and sharing a tragic fate with neighboring communities last year, New Orleans doesn't have much to celebrate as Mardi Gras approaches. It hurts to think about the lives lost and the traditions that have been broken. Keepsake treasures have disappeared; a huge void has been left behind. However, we all know ...
Various Artists: Our New Orleans 2005
by AAJ Staff
One of the best and most tragic ways we have to know how much something matters is to go through the experience of having it taken away. To the people of lowland New Orleans, Hurricane Katrina was the end of a way of life. To the people of the United States, New Orleans herself winked out ...
New Birth For New Orleans Brass Bands
by Todd R. Brown
You could hear it almost every night of the week: the call of a trumpet piercing the air, saying, “Here is where the party's at! The booming bass drum pounding out a hip hop rhythm, and the sizzling snare building on that beat with choppy, Latin-style syncopation. The trombone crying out with baritone joy, the sousaphone ...
Phoenix Rising: A Credo on Behalf of New Orleans Recovery
by Victor L. Schermer
More than 100 years ago, a new form of music emerged. It was based on African American spiritual music, the sound and rhythm of funeral marching bands, touches of American and Acadian French folk strains, and a special blend of joy and sadness that was and remains hard to describe. The new music that came into ...
New Orleans Style
by Charlie B. Dahan
As the snow falls outside the windows at The Vault , there is one thing on our minds: New Orleans. In a matter of a few weeks, two great events occur, Mardi Gras and the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival (aka JazzFest). With these two events on the horizon, new musical product begins to hit ...
Eubie Blake at the 1977 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival aboard the S. S. President
by Ken Dryden
One of my great regrets is not having the opportunity to hear Eubie Blake in person. The closest I ever came was when he appeared at the Palm Beach Jazz Festival during the late 1970s; I had tickets to see classical pianist Vladimir Horowitz in Miami Beach on the very same day. My mother said something ...
