NOJO Launches NOJO Jazz Jam
With support from Snug Harbor, Harrah’s Foundation, the Nathan
Cummings Foundation, the Back to Bourbon Street Fund, the Goldring & Woldenberg Family Foundations, Entergy, the City of New Orleans, and the State of Louisiana, NOJO conducts a series of performances in one of New Orleans’ most famous jazz clubs, Snug Harbor. New Orleans jazz is steeped in many home grown traditions, most notably the tradition of established jazz musicians mentoring younger, up-and-coming musicians. Hurricane Katrina significantly affected this tradition, which was heavily neighborhood based and dependent upon a large number of professional, older jazz musicians being available to the budding young jazz artists trying to find their voices. In remaining true to its musical traditions and heritage—born of and from the people and street life of New Orleans—NOJO created the NOJO Jazz Jam, a mentoring and professional development program for young New Orleans jazz musicians. The program is simple: find budding young artists and give them the opportunity to strengthen their craft before a live audience through guided mentorship and presentation opportunities in real life entertainment venues.
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New Orleans: Then & Now National Tour Expands in 3rd Year
The successful NOJO Big Band Tour is in the midst of a third year run for 2007-08, with cities that include Berkeley, CA; Salt Lake City; Birmingham, AL; Atlanta; Minneapolis, Chicago, Detroit and many more.
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Jazz at the Center of Rebirth
No other city in the world evokes images of American jazz as strongly as does New Orleans. With approximately $400 million already identified, The Hyatt New Orleans District Rebirth Advisory Board announced plans to redevelop the Hyatt Regency New Orleans hotel as part of a $716 million jazz-based project that will bring to New Orleans a new, world-class National Jazz Center and park.
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New Orleans Jazz Treasures
Some of the resources upon which NOJO programs and performances conceptually stand upon are the jazz objects in public and private collections throughout the city. With over eighty percent of the city of New Orleans destroyed or severely damaged by Hurricane Katrina, many of the most important collections of jazz objects were destroyed or damaged.
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