Jazz is the food and wine of the soul...
2008 Musical Schedule. Not a current event listing!
Free Music on Main
during
The Grande Table
6-7 Top of Main Jazz Combo 1
6-7 Main Street Mall Jazz Duo
6-7 Main Stage The Blue Wailers
6-7 Claim Jumper Stage Jazz Combo 3
7-8 Top of Main Jam Combo 4
7-8 Main Street Mall Jam Combo 5
7-8 Main Stage New Orleans Center for Creative Arts
Jazz Quintet*
7-8 Claim Jumper Stage Jam Combo 6
8-8:30 Miners Plaza The Crescent Super Band **
see description below
8:30-9:30 Main Stage The Faculty of Funk*
see description below
9:30-end Lance Levar's Community Drum Circle
All members of the community are welcome
to join in and greet summer for the Solstice.
Rhythm not neccessarily required.
The Grande Picnic
Saturday, City Park
Ticketed Event
Non-stop jazz performances by...
Corey Christiansen with special guest Jeff Baker
3-4 pm
and
New Orleans Center for Creative Arts
4:30-6 pm
Performance Bios
*The Faculty of Funk: A unique performance, not to be replicated anywhere else! Come see these well-known recording artists come together for the first time ...live, on The Main Stage.
click any of these names to read more
Jeff Coffin: (sax) 2-time GRAMMY-Winner, performed with Bela Fleck Brian Bromberg: (bass) GRAMMY-nominee, performs with Elvis Costello & Herbie Hancock Wycliff Gordon:(trombone ) Julliard School Instructor, performed with Wynton Marsalis Terreon Gully:(drums) plays w/Christian McBride, Yerba Buena, Lauryn Hill Ron Blake: (sax) plays in Yerba Buena & Saturday Night Live Band Jeremy Pelt: (trumpet) Mingus Big Bands, The Skatalikes
Caleb Chapman: (sax) Director of The Music School, Crescent Super Band, and Jam Camp. Education Director for Park City Jazz Foundation
** The Crescent Super Band :
The Super Band keeps bringing in the awards. They have again won a Best of State Award for 2008 (their third) and another DownBeat Award for 2008 (their second). Probably the biggest honor so far this year is an invitation to perform at the highly prestigious Midwest Clinic in Chicago this December. There is a very competitive selection process to be invited and the band was accepted on their first try! For the event, GRAMMY and EMMY Award winner Gordon Goodwin will be writing a new piece for the band as a world premier. In addition to performing at Savor The Summit, they will also perform this summer at The Juilliard School (NY), Jazz at the Sheraton Series (Salt Lake), Telluride Jazz Festival (Colorado), Montreux Jazz Festival (Switzerland), Vienne Jazz Festival (France), Umbria Jazz Festival (Italy), and the Park City Jazz Festival.
*NOCCA Jazz Quintet Located just blocks away from the world famous jazz clubs on Frenchman Street and in the French Quarter, the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA) is a tuition-free, fully accredited high school arts program that offers specialized instruction in dance, music, theatre, visual arts, and creative writing. Students who participate are selected by audition or portfolio review, attend their respective high schools in the morning, take their advanced arts classes at NOCCA in the afternoon, and receive honors credits toward high school graduation. Currently, over 450 students coming from public, private, and parochial schools across the greater New Orleans area are enrolled, enjoying an art-inspiring diversity reflective of the city. www.nocca.com.................
Corey Christiansen Since he joined the Mel Bay Publications, Inc. team as Senior Music Editor and advisor to Product Development in 2001, Corey Christiansen has over forty publications with Mel Bay and has conducted countless guitar clinics and concerts across the country and beyond. This highly productive output may sound extraordinary, but it is no accident that he plays and writes with such facility. Corey began playing the guitar at the age of five and has been perfecting his technique ever since.
