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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 ...
New Orleans Jazz Fest Presents The Stephanie Jordan Big Band In A Tribute To Lena Horne This Friday
NEW ORLEANS, LA: The Stephanie Jordan Big Band performs this Friday, April 27, 2012 at 4:00 PM in the Zatarain’s / WWOZ Jazz Tent at the 2012 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival Presented by Shell. Stephanie Jordan will fill the air with her signature Big Band sound continuing her signature trademark of singing jazz standards. ...
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. ...
