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CURRENT NEWS Renowned Local Musicians Celebrate Great Literature with Newly Commissioned Jazz University of New Orleans professors Victor Atkins, Ed Petersen and Steve Masakowski will perform original Jazz music based on renowned authors William Faulkner and Dr. Seuss and John Kennedy Toole's beloved novel A Confederacy of Dunces. NOJO performs at fundraiser for Soledad O'Brien Foundation. Soledad O’Brien & Brad Raymond Foundation Kicks Off Fundraising Efforts For New Education Program Designed To Empower Young Woman. Dick Parsons, Cicely Tyson and Pharrell Wiliams serve as event chairs for "New Orleans in the Hamptons." Music by members of the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra and Grammy Award winning trumpeter, Irvin Mayfield.
Music series spans multiple venues to benefit 12 local charitable organizations. New Orleans Jazz Institute to take over YLC's Project Prodigy camp The Young Leadership Council (YLC), a non-profit civic group of young professionals that creates and manages community projects in the name of leadership development, announced today that its longest-running community program – the Project Prodigy Summer Music Camp will be integrated into the University of New Orleans-based New Orleans Jazz Institute this summer. Irvin Mayfield & NOJO Debut Hall of Swing Irvin Mayfield and the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra announced today that a limited amount of tickets are still available for the highly-anticipated debut of the Hall of Swing, a concert dedicated to the music of the legendary bandleader Clyde Kerr, Sr. on Sunday, May 8th, two shows 9pm and 11pm at Irvin Mayfield’s Jazz Playhouse at the Royal Sonesta Hotel, 300 Bourbon Street.
Deluxe multi-media coffee-table book and CD package chronicles Mayfield’s artistic quest and development into one of America’s most promising young jazz musicians. A Love Letter to New Orleans CD is also available separate
A Valentine's Day Jazz Concert featuring Irvin Mayfield & The New Orleans Jazz Orchestra performing Such Sweet Thunder by Duke Ellington with special guest Harry Shearer, reciting the Love Sonnets of William Shakespeare.
Irvin Mayfield and the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra
announced today the launch of their new Hometown Concert Series which
will kickoff with a special one-night only performance of Book One,
their Grammy Award-Winning album on Friday, January 21, 2010 at
9pm at House of Blues, 225 Decatur Street, New Orleans. Tickets are only
$20.00 and are available at www.hob.com,
for more information call 504 310-4999.
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NOJO partners with Morton's Steakhouse for Mingle,
Jingle and Jazz luncheon. Tickets available now! NOJI opens Saturday Music School at UNO, partners
with UNO Capitol One's Charter School Network. Love Sessions concert series raises over $40,000 for local non-profits New Orleans Non-Profits Feel the Love. Over
900 New Orleanians and jazz enthusiasts recently packed into Irvin
Mayfield’s Jazz Playhouse at the Royal Sonesta Hotel. New Orleans' Hotelier and Award Winning Trumpeter Forge Historic Entertainment IRVIN MAYFIELD AND THE NEW ORLEANS JAZZ ORCHESTRA RELEASE NEW CD, “BOOK ONE” DURING JAZZ FEST! New Orleans (April 21, 2009) – Irvin Mayfield and The New Orleans Jazz Orchestra (NOJO) announced today that they are issuing a limited local release of their new CD, “Book One,” during The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival presented by Shell April 24 - May 3, 2009. The CD, which is on World Village, a world music label from Harmonia Mundi, features NOJO’s critically-acclaimed big band led by Mayfield, a Grammy Award-nominated and Billboard Award-winning trumpeter and NOJO’s founder and artistic director, as well as soloists such as saxophonist Ed “Sweetbread” Peterson and vocalists Leon “Chocolate” Brown, Johnaye Kendrick and John Boutte. Irvin Mayfield and the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra will be performing at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival on Saturday May 2 at 4:00 p.m. - 5:10 p.m. A CD release party will follow the performance on May 2 at Irvin Mayfield’s Jazz Playhouse at the Royal Sonesta Hotel, 300 Bourbon Street in the French Quarter at 8 p.m. |
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