Jazz Club New Orleans
by Kathy Bassett
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Jazz Club New Orleans
Artist
Kathy Bassett
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Digital Art - Digital Art
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Let's party!Jazz in the city of New Orleans really reached its heyday in the hot jazz era, before the Great Migration and Harlem Renaissance created new hubs of jazz in Chicago, New York, and elsewhere, with many of the city's finest musicians (Louis Armstrong and Jelly Roll Morton, for two) leaving for greener pastures. New Orleans, always at the musical vanguard, eventually became an R&B/early rock town, and then a funk town, and later a hip-hop town, with jazz existing largely on the fringes as the years went on.
But the old traditions certainly never died out. There are brilliant artists keeping the musical spirit of Sidney Bechet and King Oliver alive, and plenty of others who push the boundaries of jazz in the most contemporary ways. Want to see for yourself? Make the rounds of some of these incredible venues and have a listen, and see the Jazz & Heritage Festival in April and May.
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January 26th, 2022
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