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Stephanie Jordan Joins New Orleans’ All-star Lineup For Hurricane Sandy Relief Concert
New Orleans jazz vocalist Stephanie Jordan will join a star studded lineup of New Orleans musicians in a benefit concert which takes place at 7:00 PM on Tuesday, November 20th at the Mahalia Jackson Theater for a night of fantastic local music to raise funds for victims of Hurricane Sandy. In addition to Stephanie and her ...
Stephanie Jordan Jazz Ensemble Performs Day One Of Cutting Edge’s NOLA Downtown Music & Arts Festival
NEW ORLEANS – The 20th Annual Cutting Edge CE announces that Showcasing on Friday at 6:20pm in Lafayette Square is internationally acclaimed New Orleans jazz vocalist Stephanie Jordan at the NOLA DOWNTOWN Music & Arts Festival which takes place in Lafayette Square at Historic Gallier Hall, 545 St. Charles Avenue in the heart of New Orleans’ ...
Voices of the Wetlands All-Stars: Schwenksville, PA, August 19, 2012
by Wade Luquet
The Voices of the Wetlands All-StarsPhiladelphia Folk FestivalSchwenksville, PAAugust 19, 2012The farmland northwest of Philadelphia is a long way from the swamps of Louisiana, but the two came together for a good cause at the 51st annual Philadelphia Folk Festival in Schwenksville, PA. Closing out the Saturday evening set at the ...
Stephanie Jordan And Ellis Marsalis To Perform For Stevie Wonder At National Urban League’s Gala
Whitney M. Young, Jr. Awards Masquerade Gala honors U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, Louisiana Supreme Court Justice Bernette Johnson and musical legend Stevie Wonder NEW ORLEANS – Internationally acclaimed New Orleans’ jazz vocalist Stephanie Jordan will be accompanied by pianist Ellis Marsalis in a special rendition of one of Stevie Wonder’s tunes as the National Urban ...
Jazz Returns To Bourbon Street
New Orleans' Bourbon Street is returning to its original music one club at a time as rhythms of authentic New Orleans jazz float through the summer air. Up until the 1980's the sounds of jazz were flowing out of several bars and clubs on Bourbon Street. Blue Angel had George Finola with Clarence Ford and Ed ...
Trombone Shorty and Orleans Avenue
by Wade Luquet
Trombone Shorty and Orleans AvenueKeswick TheatreGlenside, PAJune 2, 2012In his introduction at the Keswick Theatre in the Philadelphia suburbs, Philadelphia Folk Festival director Michael Cloeren stated, “Musicians like this come along once in a generation." By the end of the concert, no one at the packed theater could argue with this ...
NEA Jazz Master Ellis Marsalis And Thelonious Monk International Jazz Piano Competition Winner Kris Bowers Teamed To Present Music Education Programs
Hundreds of students and jazz lovers attended free grand piano duo outreach events Celebrated pianist-educator Ellis Marsalis was joined by newcomer Kris Bowers, the 22-year-old winner of the 2011 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Piano Competition, in a series of music education programs across New Orleans, presented by the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz with lead funding ...
Annual Festival Celebrating Satchmo Is Aug. 2-5
NEW ORLEANS, LA: The 12th annual Satchmo SummerFest will be held August 2-5 at the Louisiana State Museum's Old U.S. Mint. The festival is dedicated to the life, legacy and music of New Orleans' native son, Louis “Satchmo" Armstrong. It will feature three days of seminars about the history and influence of jazz music in New ...
New Orleans Helsinki Connection Releases New Album Paradise On Earth
It’s been eight years since their debut album At Last and now; another collaboration from this diverse ensemble once again ferrying jazz lovers to a better understanding of musical intimacy. Along with a fresh set of titles, the band’s lineup is also slightly augmented on this new, captivating recording. Finnish based drummer and co-founder of the ...
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 ...
