New Orleans Jazz Orchestra

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The New Orleans Jazz Orchestra (NOJO) is a jazz big band founded in 2002 and backed by a non-profit, non-profit organization. The formation consists of 20 musicians under the artistic direction of Adonis Rose (long drummer at NOJO), who succeeded the resigned founder Irvin Mayfield in 2017.

history

Mayfield had founded the NOJO on the model of his friend Wynton Marsalis' Lincoln Center Orchestra , but remained a controversial figure and had to go due to a dispute over financial irregularities. Among other things, he had diverted funds from a library foundation, which he headed, for the construction of the New Orleans Jazz Market jazz center (which also includes a small library). There was a trial in which he was convicted in 2018. Under him, the band toured outside the United States in Europe, Brazil, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, among others. After the resignation of Mayfield and his business partner Ronald Markham, the orchestra paused for about a year. His successor Rose taught partially at the University of Texas at Arlington and founded the Fort Worth Jazz Orchestra on the model of NOJO before returning to New Orleans in 2015. He also released albums under his own name.

The big band includes the pianist and arranger Victor Atkins, the saxophonist Ed "Sweetbread" Petersen (both also professors at the University of New Orleans ), the trombonist and singer Michael Watson, the saxophonist Ricardo Pascal and the trumpeter Leon "Kid Chocolate" Brown and Ashlin Parker.

The aim is also to support the jazz infrastructure in New Orleans, where the formation holds regular concerts in the New Orleans Jazz Market, which opened in 2015 on Oretha Castle Haley Boulevard in Central City, a jazz event center in New Orleans that also has a 370-seat concert hall Has.

Publications

Since 2005, The New Orleans Jazz Orchestra has released four albums so far (2019). The band's second album Book One (World Village 2009) won the 2010 Grammy Award for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album . In 2015 Okeh Records released her album Dee Dee's Feathers with Dee Dee Bridgewater ; the singer is also a member of the NOJO artistic committee, as is Ellis Marsalis .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Keith Spera, After year of silence, New Orleans Jazz Orchestra ready to move on without founder Irvin Mayfield , The New Orleans Advocate, September 22, 2017.