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Various: New Orleans Brass
by Jerry D'Souza
Marching bands are an integral part of New Orleans. Where would a parade be without one, or for that matter a funeral? No matter what the role is, they bring in a special magic and joy. Music evolves as it imbibes and imbues other genres. Marching bands were no exception, as they pulled in ...
New Orleans Award-Winning Jazz Photographer Steven Forster Unveils "Musical Legends Remixed" with Ella Fitzgerald, the Count Basie Orchestra, Quincy Jones and Much More at Robert Bruno Gallery November 3rd 6-9 P.M.
New Orleans Award-winning Jazz Photographer Steven Forster has announced that he will unveil the exhibition of his legends series of jazz and musical giants including Ella Fitzgerald, The Count Basie Orchestra, Fats Domino, Quincy Jones, Queen Latifah, Shirley Horn, Al Hirt and more at the Robert Bruno Gallery in New Orleans for the month of November ...
New Orleans Celebrates Louis Armstrong
by Sandy Ingham
Satchmo Summerfest 2007 New Orleans, Louisiana August 2-5Jazz fans have myriad reasons to be thankful for Louis Armstrong. One of them is the annual birthday bash in his hometown, New Orleans. The first Satchmo Summerfest was in 2001, on Armstrong's 100th birthday. The seventh stretched over four sun-drenched days, August 2-5, ...
Preservation Hall Jazz Band Releases Made in New Orleans CD/DVD Collection!
Preservation Hall Recordings is proud to announce the upcoming national release of Made in New Orleans: The Hurricane Sessions (MINO), featuring the Preservation Hall Jazz Band on Tuesday, July 24, 2007. The Collector's Edition, limited to 504 signed and numbered copies, includes The Hurricane Sessions CD and a DVD, which contains rare and previously unviewed footage ...
New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival 2007
by Gary Firstenberg
At the 38th Annual Jazz & Heritage Festival, hundreds of talented performers, both regional and national, uncorked some vintage music ranging from jazz, blues, rock and gospel to a generous sprinkling of world music, zydeco and Cajun tunes--all reflecting the unique flavor of the culture of New Orleans. 375,000 revelers (the largest crowd in several years) ...
Jazz Vocalist Betty Shirley Returns with a Bang with the Release of Her Rescued CD~ "Close Your Eyes"
Jazz Vocalist extraordinaire Betty Shirley is happy to announce the release of her third CD as a leader, Close Your Eyes. The CD was completed just at the time Hurricane Katrina was rolling in. “We could hear the thunder inside the Word of Mouth Studio on the West Bank," remarks Shirley. This new CD master survived ...
Seeking Quiet and Peace at the 2007 New Orleans Jazz And Heritage Festival
by Mark Sabbatini
Lots of empty seats in the shade right next to an intimate garden stage. Nobody in line for beer at the air- conditioned concession stand. Sprawling leisurely in the hay in front of some eclectic band that was still rehearsing songs on the drive over. Sound like anybody else's weekend at the 2007 New ...
Kali Z. Fasteau / Kidd Jordan: People of the Ninth: New Orleans and the Hurricane 2005
by Budd Kopman
In the waning days of September, 2005, the entire U.S. population watched as hurricane Katrina developed into a monster storm and seemed to take aim directly for New Orleans. Just at the last moment, the storm swerved a bit and weakened, allowing people to think that, once again, the bullet had been dodged. ...
Kali Z. Fasteau/Kidd Jordan: People of the Ninth: New Orleans and the Hurricane 2005
by AAJ Staff
One of the great benefits of obscurity is the celebration of discovery. Throughout his career, saxophonist/teacher Kidd Jordan has been respected and hired by peers including Cecil Taylor, Ornette Coleman and Ellis Marsalis, but only since the late '90s has the septuagenarian begun to garner prolific recording opportunities and jazz festival invites. Multi-instrumentalist ...
New Orleans Jazz Orchestra/Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Band at New Jersey Performing Arts Center, Newark, Nov. 25
by Sandy Ingham
Back in the day, this battle of the bands at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark would have been declared a TKO before the first note sounded. In this corner, the heavyweight champions, the Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Big Band, boasting legendary names--Moody, Heath, D'Rivera, Slide Hampton--playing beloved classics by Dizzy, Monk, Golson et al. ...
