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New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival 2009
by Gary Firstenberg
If you want to experience music as wide and as deep as the mighty Mississippi River, it is best to go right to the source. In the lush surroundings of the oldest horse racing track in The Big Easy, the 40th Annual New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival celebrated a diverse assortment of music, and provided ...
2009 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
by Joel A. Siegel
The 2009 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival marked the return of pre-Katrina level attendance. Despite the national recession, the festival announced sales of more than 400,000 tickets for the seven-day event over two weekends. As usual, producer Quint Davis did a masterful job blending the various musical components, including New Orleans jazz, national jazz acts, ...
Michael Arnone's 20th Anniversary Crawfish Festival: New Orleans Comes to New Jersey
by Wade Luquet
Michael Arnone's Crawfish FestivalAugusta, New JerseyMay 30th and 31, 2009 As a native New Orleanian expatriated over 20 years ago by my Pennsylvania-born wife, I am constantly looking for ways to connect to the mother land. What most of us who have moved away miss the most, besides the people, is the food ...
Strippers and Be-Boppers in Postwar New Orleans Jazz
by Charles Suhor
The article below was adapted by the author, a native Orleanian, from Jazz in New Orleans: the Postwar Years Through 1970 (Scarecrow Press/Rutgers Institute of Jazz Studies, 2001). New Orleans was a hotbed of jazz activity in many styles during the years after World War II, but it has been largely unrecognized by critics ...
Kindred Cool Opens in NOLA on May 30
Please Join us for the opening reception of KINDRED COOL: Portraits of Jazz Friendships Photography by Laylah Amatullah Barrayn Saturday, May 30th 6 - 9 p.m. Kindred Cool is a photography project that uses relationship between Ralph Ellison, Romare Bearden and Albert Murray as an inspiration for documenting other friendships forged and fostered through ...
New Orleans Jazz Fest draws 400,000+
by Sandy Ingham
New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival New Orleans, LAApril 22-May 4, 2009There are hundreds of good reasons for jazz lovers to join the crowds at the annual New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. Reasons with names like Marsalis and Jordan, Batiste and Boutte--families whose musical heritage in the Birthplace of Jazz spans several ...
Esquizito Presents the "Why Not Call It Music" Festival in New Orleans
Sunday, April 26 through Sunday, May 3, 2009 in New Orleans @ Maison Musique... Esquizito's home @ the crossroads of three historic neighborhoods: the Bywater, the Marigny and the Faubourg St. Roch 1018 Music Street (between St. Claude and N. Rampart) Think you've seen it all and heard it all in New Orleans? Come hear the ...
Irvin Mayfield and the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra Release New CD, "Book One"
IRVIN MAYFIELD AND THE NEW ORLEANS JAZZ ORCHESTRA RELEASE NEW CD, “BOOK ONE” DURING JAZZ FEST! Book One will be available at the New Orleans Jazz Fest Music Tent, LA Music Factory and Peaches Records. New Orleans -- Irvin Mayfield and The New Orleans Jazz Orchestra (NOJO) announced today that they are issuing a limited local ...
Fritzel's New Orleans Jazz Band
by Wade Luquet
Fritzel's New Orleans Jazz Band Fritzel's New Orleans Jazz Band Fritzel's Music 2009 With all of its noise and fraternity-like atmosphere, there still remains a little slice of jazz heaven on Bourbon Street in New Orleans. Fritzel's European Jazz Pub is one of city's premiere clubs featuring traditional ...
Leroy Jones Reassembles the Fairview Brass Band for a Special Concert at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival 2009
This historic event, taking place at this year's New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, will reunite one of the most important brass bands in New Orleans' brass band history. The Fairview Baptist Church Christian Marching Band was founded in 1970, and was the brainchild of reverend Andrew Darby, pastor of the Fairview Baptist Church. Reverend Darby ...
