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New Orleans Helsinki Connection Awarded a Grant by the Threadhead Records Foundation
Jazz ensemble New Orleans Helsinki Connection is one of Threadhead Records Foundation's 2010 grants recipients. The grant was awarded for the completion of group's new recording project, “Love Song For New Orleans." The Threadhead Records Foundation is a non-profit 501(c)3 that operates out of Santa Monica, CA. It's predecessor and affiliate, volunteer-run and fan-funded Threadhead Records ...
2010 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
by Gary Firstenberg
The city of New Orleans is riding high these days. With the beloved football team winning the Super Bowl, a new mayor promising a brighter future, a rebuilding of structures and economy, and a new HBO television show, Treme, extolling the virtues of the unique culture of this musical mecca, times could not be better for ...
Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong
By Daniel Kassell Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong Terry Teachout Hardcover; 496 pages ISBN: 978-0-15-101089-9 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2010 Terry Teachout explained in the Afterward that he's the first jazz bassist to produce a fully researched biography prepared recently ...
Keep New Orleans Jazz Alive! 10th Annual Ladies in Red Gala
Help keep New Orleans jazz history alive! The Preservation Resource Center (PRC), a New Orleans non-profit, is hosting the 10th Annual Ladies in Red Gala to raise funds to continue their already successful efforts to preserve jazz landmarks throughout the city of New Orleans. The event promises to be an exciting evening for any jazz lover, ...
New Orleans / Jazz Fest Photos Wanted
If you have photos from previous Jazz Fests or are planning to attend this year, please share your photos at the All About Jazz Gallery. gallery.allaboutjazz.com We're also looking for general New Orleans photos, photos of clubs, bands, musicians, Preservation Hall, parades, the culture, the landmarks... whatever you care to share. We plan to feature select ...
Great Vibes: Nova NOLA and The Wee Trio
by J Hunter
Despite the current iteration of the “Jazz is Dead" riff, it is impossible to throw a rock without hitting one of the music's latest wave of horn players, reed players, keyboardists, bassists or drummers. The one area that lacks ground-breaking new personnel in 2010 is “mallets" (vibraphone and marimba), although every recent generation has had its ...
Rising Star Renee Wilson Comes Home to New Orlens to Premiere Featured Documentary and Release Debut CD
Introducing Rene Wilson Sultry, soulful, reminiscent and simply beautiful are just some words that have been used to describe the voice of Rene Wilson. Her unique style is a juicy, eclectic blend of folk, soul, jazz, rock, pop, blues and whatever else she decides to conjure up in her creative kitchen. Renee's intimate and resonant voice ...
Historic Photos of New Orleans Jazz
by Wade Luquet
Historic Photos of New Orleans Jazz Thomas L. Morgan Hardback: 216 pages ISBN:1596524057 Turner Publishing 2009 Covering over 100 years, Historic Photos of New Orleans Jazz utilizes the extensive jazz photography collection of the Louisiana State Museum Jazz Collection to produce a beautiful book ...
WWOZ: Thirty Years of "Bringing New Orleans Music to the Universe"
by Wade Luquet
In a small office just off of the main studio, music director Scott Borne sits among stacks of boxes containing 25,000 CD's with a machine that picks up a CD from a stack, copies it and then digitizes it. The music from that CD will now be safely housed on a server in the second floor ...
Irvin Mayfield and the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra's "Book One" Nominated for a 2010 Grammy Award
IRVIN MAYFIELD AND THE NEW ORLEANS JAZZ ORCHESTRA'S “BOOK ONE" NOMINATED FOR A 2010 GRAMMY AWARD Debut CD features original compositions, confirming a Jazz renaissance in New Orleans! (NEW ORLEANS, LA -- The New Orleans Jazz Orchestra (NOJO) is proud to announce that BOOK ONE, its latest release on World Village, has been nominated for the ...
