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United States. Jazz Fest: A New Orleans Story is the 2022 American documentary film based on the annual New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. The documentary directed by Frank Marshall and Ryan Suffern, premiered at the South by Southwest film festival on March 13, 2022. It was distributed by Sony Pictures Classics in limited theatres on May ...
J. Preston Jackson. Tony Jackson (pianist) New Orleans Willie Jackson. William Manuel Johnson. Bunk Johnson. Cee Pee Johnson. Lonnie Johnson (musician) Smokey Johnson.
Fountain at JazzFest, 2006. Fountain returned to New Orleans, played with the Dukes of Dixieland, then began leading bands under his own name. He owned his own club in the French Quarter in the 1960s and 1970s. He later acquired "Pete Fountain's Jazz Club" at the Riverside Hilton in downtown New Orleans. The New Orleans Jazz Club presented ...
In his later years, Armstrong credited King Oliver. Armstrong said about his youth, "Every time I close my eyes blowing that trumpet of mine—I look right in the heart of good old New Orleans ... It has given me something to live for." A snippet from the January 2, 1913, issue of The Times-Democrat, New Orleans.
Johnny Dodds ( / ˈdɒts /; April 12, 1892 – August 8, 1940) [2] was an American jazz clarinetist and alto saxophonist based in New Orleans, best known for his recordings under his own name and with bands such as those of Joe "King" Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton, Lovie Austin and Louis Armstrong. Dodds was the older brother of drummer Warren ...
Clarinet. Years active. 1917–68. Labels. American Music, Decca, Victor, GHB. George Lewis (born Joseph Louis Francois Zenon; July 13, 1900 – December 31, 1968) [1] was an American jazz clarinetist who achieved his highest profile in the later decades of his life.
Signature. Billie Holiday (born Eleanora Fagan; April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959) was an American jazz and swing music singer. Nicknamed " Lady Day " by her friend and music partner, Lester Young, Holiday made a significant contribution to jazz music and pop singing. Her vocal style, strongly influenced by jazz instrumentalists, inspired a new ...
Terence Oliver Blanchard (born March 13, 1962) is an American trumpeter, pianist and composer. A jazz musician, he has also composed film scores and operas. He started his career in 1982 as a member of the Lionel Hampton Orchestra, then The Jazz Messengers. He has composed more than forty film scores and performed on more than fifty.