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Andersson's idea for her most recent Basin Street Records release was borne while touring Sweden, when she met with producer Tobias Froberg. With little prodding, like-minded Tobias flew to New Orleans in the fall of 2007, where the two recorded Hummingbird, Go! in Andersson's kitchen.
Jason is the son of pianist and music educator Ellis Marsalis and his wife Dolores, and the youngest sibling of Wynton, Branford and Delfeayo. Together, the four brothers and their patriarch Ellis, comprise New Orleans venerable first family of jazz. Ellis and Delores began to cultivate Jason’s interest in music at age three, with the ...
The Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street is a musical variety radio program which began on the Blue Network on February 11, 1940. [1] [2] The program was created and hosted by NBC staff announcer Gene Hamilton, as a tongue-in-cheek satire of highbrow symphonic broadcasts hosted by Milton Cross. Instead of Cross's dignified commentary ...
Singer. entertainer. Labels. Basin Street Records. Website. www .lenaprima .com. Lena Prima is an American jazz singer. She is the daughter of singer, trumpeter and recording star Louis Prima and his fifth wife, Gia Maione. [1]
A respected session musician and sideman, British blues pianist and composer Jon Cleary has worked with rock, blues, and soul artists like Bonnie Raitt, D’Angelo, Maria Muldaur, Taj Mahal, and Eric Clapton. Originally a guitarist, Cleary began playing at age five, and started his first band at 15. Raised on blues, jazz, and soul records, his ...
Kermit Ruffins Everyone’s favorite home-town hero trumpeter/singer. “New Orleans’ Ambassador of Good Times” –Downbeat Magazine Los Hombres Calientes Master percussionist Bill Summers & Irvin Mayfield explore the boundaries of world music. Billboard Music Award winner and Grammy Award nominee Jason Marsalis Jazz genius on the drums and mallets. NEA Jazz Master with the Marsalis family
Hailed by the New York Times as “a New Orleans institution,” the Rebirth Brass Band have been at the forefront of the brass band revival that they helped kick off over 30 years ago. Formed by the Frazier brothers, Phil and Keith, along with Basin Street labelmate Kermit Ruffins in 1983, The Rebirth Brass Band has gone from playing on ...
