Wednesday night, the House of Blues hosted “Musicians for Mitch,” a fundraiser for mayoral candidate Mitch Landrieu. The star-studded event was emceed by Jazz Fest’s Quint Davis and paraded a who’s who of New Orleans music across the stage. Banu Gibson performed a new campaign song for Landrieu, and the evening presented such charming moments [...]
Tag Archives: Terence Blanchard
Louisiana Winners at the Grammy Awards
February 1, 2010 – 2:56 pm
Louisiana musicians made another strong showing at the Grammy Awards last night, with The New Orleans Jazz Orchestra (NOJO) taking home the prize for “Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album” with last year’s Book One CD. Trumpeter Terence Blanchard won the “Best Improvised Jazz Solo” award for the solo he took on the song “Dancin’ 4 Chicken” [...]
Blanchard Honored Tonight at Snug Harbor
January 26, 2010 – 10:57 am
On Friday night, Terence Blanchard won Best of the Beat awards for Best Contemporary Jazz Artist and Contemporary Jazz Album, the latter for Choices. Tonight at Snug Harbor, he’ll receive the Academie Charles Cros’ Grand Prix Du Disque 2009 – one of France’s highest arts honors – for Choices as well, and the Academie’s Claude [...]
New Orleans in the News
August 10, 2009 – 2:22 pm
This week, if people around the country were talking about New Orleans, most were talking about Bill Jefferson. Those who could resist puns and wisecracks at his expense were talking about the death of Willy DeVille, the one-time lead singer for New York punk-era band Mink DeVille. He moved to New Orleans in 1988, and [...]
Choices Preview
July 27, 2009 – 9:55 am
Friday night, Terence Blanchard plays the Taylor Library at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art. He recorded his new album, Choices, there this spring. Blanchard premiered music from Choices this past weekend when he played New York City. In the New York Times, Ben Ratliff reviewed the show: This is a band whose lineup [...]
Don’t Miss “Miss”
July 9, 2009 – 1:15 pm
For our friends in NYC: Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. in Lincoln Center’s Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse, Terence Blanchard, Dr. Ike from the Ponderosa Stomp, and journalist Larry Blumenfeld will speak on a panel titled, “Do You Know What it Means to Miss New Orleans?” The show’s hype says, “Top players in the New Orleans music [...]
Making Choices
July 1, 2009 – 12:01 am
Terence Blanchard will premiere his new album, Choices, at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art July 31. The album was recorded this spring in the Ogden’s Taylor Library and includes the vocal talents of Dr. Cornel West and singer Bilal. The Choices premier concerts, at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m., will benefit the Ogden Museum, and [...]
Blanchard at Ogden Postponed
March 2, 2009 – 8:24 am
Terence Blanchard’s March concert in the Ogden Museum of Southern Art’s Taylor Library has been postponed. The show was to debut work that he is recording in the Taylor Library for his upcoming album, Choices. It will be rescheduled later in the year.
We Win!
March 1, 2009 – 12:01 am
This year’s Grammys were good to Louisiana. The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences gave out its awards February 8 and handed four trophies to Lil Wayne. His album Tha Carter III led to Grammys for Best Rap Album, Best Rap Song (“Lollipop”), Best Rap Solo Performance (“A Milli”) and Best Rap Performance by [...]
Aaron Parks, Invisible Cinema (Blue Note)
February 1, 2009 – 12:01 am
The crux of pianist Aaron Parks’ fifth album as a leader: time and tide. Time, in that even from the first notes of the “Travelers” leadoff cut, Parks puts meaningful lapses into a pattern suggesting sifting snowflakes. At medium tempos, brisk tempos, double-or-quadruple time keyboard runs, he effortlessly switches between staccato stand-alone tones and slurred [...]
