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Allen Toussaint (1938-2015)
Allen Toussaint, a highly influential pianist, songwriter and producer who wrote dozens of hit songs that many Americans know but are surprised to learn he wrote, died on Nov. 9 while on tour in Spain. He was 77. Allen was probably best known in New Orleans, where his lyrical and eclectic happy-time piano style rich in ...
Stephanie Jordan To Sing The National Anthem During The New Orleans Pelicans Home Opener
New Orleans jazz vocalist Stephanie Jordan has been selected to perform the National Anthem at the New Orleans Pelicans home opener at the Smoothie King Center on Saturday, October 31, 2015. The Pelicans will face off against the reigning NBA champion Golden State Warriors, tipoff is 6:30 pm. Jordan most recently performed at the Smoothie King ...
Billie Davies: Hand In Hand In The Hand Of The Moon
by Roger Farbey
Hand In Hand In The Hand Of The Moon is a heartfelt homage to the artist Serge Vandercam (1924-2005) whose paintings, depicted on the inside CD cover, originally inspired this suite of collaborative improvisations. Initially the inspiration drew from a period of three days of the full moon in 1995 when the artist was influenced by ...
Hashtag Jazz
by Margret Grebowicz
In his 1994 study Thinking in Jazz: The Infinite Art of Improvisation, Paul Berliner describes American jazz as a community cutting across “boundaries defined by age, class, vocation, and ethnicity" and concludes that “it is their abiding love for the music that binds this diverse population together." (Berliner, 1994, p. 36) Twenty years later, jazz community ...
Monday Recommendation: Playboy Swings
Patty Farmer, Playboy Swings: How Hugh Hefner and Playboy Changed the Face of Music (Beaufort Books) For sixty years, Hugh Hefner and his Playboy magazine have been easy targets for lampoon and parody. With their fixation on the care and feeding of the male libido, they have attracted plenty of both. But there has always been ...
Plunge: IN For The OUT
by Angelo Leonardi
A capo del gruppo Plunge, il trombonista Mark McGrain è uno dei protagonisti del jazz a New Orleans nel decennio post Katrina. Dopo il debutto nel 1995 (Falling with Grace, Accurate Records) in un organico comprendete Bob Moses alla batteria, Avishai Cohen al contrabbasso e Marcus Rojas alla tuba, il trombonista ha ricostituito il ...
Jon Batiste Benefit Concert October 28 At The Alhambra Ballroom - Plus National Jazz Museum In Harlem Gets A New Home!
THE NATIONAL JAZZ MUSEUM IN HARLEM ANNOUNCES ITS FALL 2015 BENEFIT CONCERT FEATURING JON BATISTE, THE BANDLEADER FOR LATE NIGHT WITH STEPHEN COLBERT AND THE NATIONAL JAZZ MUSEUM IN HARLEM'S NEW LOCATION ON 58 WEST 129 STREET OFF OF LENOX AVENUE “When Stephen Colbert introduced Jon Batiste as his Late Show bandleader earlier this month, most ...
Marcia Ball: Still excited about the music
by Jim Trageser
Looking back some 15 years, blues singer and pianist Marcia Ball says the old San Diego Street Scene was one of her favorite gigs on her calendar each year. Modeled after New Orleans' Jazz & Heritage Festival, the Street Scene featured jazz, blues, R&B, Cajun, Creole, zydeco, bluegrass, folk and worldbeat in a three-day stew of ...
The New Orleans All-Star Brass Band: Do You Know What It Means?
by Ian Patterson
This article was originally published in October 2006. It has been said that the truest expression of a people is in its music and dance. That being the case, then pianist {m: Herbie Hancock was right on the money when he described New Orleans as “the soul of our country. The nation's soul however, ...
NEA Jazz Master Jason Marsalis Marsalis Announces Crowdfunding Campaign For His Latest New Orleans Tribute Project Entitled "Heirs"
NEA Jazz Master Jason Marsalis, the youngest recipient of the highest U.S. Jazz honor, has launched a new crowd funding campaign for his latest project Heirs of the Crescent City. Heirs of the Crescent City is a soundtrack recording to an accompanying documentary. directed by Sascha, entitled Heirs. The film is about the various traditions that ...
