New Orleans Jazz Museum Improvisations Gala will feature Irma Thomas, Galactic, Germaine Bazzle, more

The New Orleans Jazz Museum’s annual fundraiser, Improvisations Gala, commemorates the fifth anniversary of the “Evening of Variations.” This year’s Gala returns to the Museum on Saturday, December 3, and […]

Germaine Bazzle and Ellis Marsalis to reunite on stage

The Lula Elzy New Orleans Dance Theatre will have a party that can only happen once every 300 years. “It’s All About New Orleans” features the pairing of longtime New […]

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Germaine Bazzle, “Swingin’ at Snug” (Musikbloc)

“Please welcome to the stage, the wonderful Miss Germaine Bazzle,” Lawrence Sieberth graciously introduces New Orleans’ high priestess of jazz vocals to begin the album Swingin’ at Snug. Bazzle gets […]

Soundcheck: Five Questions with Germaine Bazzle

How has scat singing made you a better teacher/singer? I didn’t set out to be a jazz singer; I set out to be a teacher. The teaching came first, and […]

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2016 Jazz Hero Award: Germaine Bazzle

The New Orleans chapter of the Jazz Journalists Association honored vocalist and veteran music educator Germaine Bazzle with the 2016 JJA Jazz Hero Award on April 20 at the Prime […]

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Germaine Bazzle Receives 2016 Jazz Journalists Association Jazz Hero Award

The New Orleans chapter of the Jazz Journalists Association will present vocalist and veteran music educator Germaine Bazzle with the JJA’s 2016 Jazz Hero Award on Wednesday, April 20, at […]

Lifetime Achievement in Music Education: Germaine Bazzle

“Teaching was what I was supposed to do—the [music] gigs are what I could do,” says an emphatic Germaine Bazzle, the 2015 recipient of OffBeat’s Lifetime Achievement in Music Education […]

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Germaine Bazzle, It’s Magic (Musik Bloc)

Germaine Bazzle, the high priestess of modern jazz vocalists in New Orleans, always carries herself with great dignity. Yet, as those who’ve seen her put on some funky second line […]

Germaine Bazzle

Germaine Bazzle, called New Orleans’ “First Lady of Jazz,” is in her element. And she is not, as one can often find her, at some popular nightclub singing on stage, […]

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