November 2017

Find updated New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park schedules at: https://www.nps.gov/jazz/planyourvisit/calendar.htm. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ November 1 Wednesday 2:00-3:00 pm Dutch Alley - 916 N. Peters St Join The Arrowhead Trio for an interpretive musical performance featuring traditional New Orleans standards as well as songs from the Great American Songbook. 2:00-3:30 pm New Orleans Jazz Museum Jazz Enroute to France: Claus Walkstein has given talks on traditional New Orleans jazz as a cultural "product", i.e., as a commercial good that involves various social, commercial, and economical issues and strategies. He is currently working on the representations of jazz in a trans-cultural dynamic, focusing on an analysis of newspaper articles from American and French press. **State Museum Sponsored Program** 8:00 pm-9:30 pm New Orleans Jazz Museum The Cole Williams Band will perform her latest album, Sin City, the mixtape at the New Orleans Jazz Museum. **State Museum Sponsored Program** _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ November 2 Thursday 2:00-3:00 pm New Orleans Jazz Museum Our Jazz Masters series features Michael Watson, a former military musician in the USMC and Jazz Studies Graduate from the

University of New Orleans. Michael has been setting the Brass world “on fire” with his brilliant trombone stylings throughout New Orleans and Beyond. Michael will be joined on percussion by his brother Bryant Watson and the NPS’ own Arrowhead Jazz Band. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ November 3 Friday 11:00 - 11:45 am Dutch Alley - 916 N. Peters St Join one of our celebrity guest artists from our “Songs for Junior Rangers” CD, award winning children’s musician and author Johnette Downing. Johnette will perform a concert and sing along especially suited for kids from Pre-school to 3rd grade.

2:00-3:00 pm New Orleans Jazz Museum New Orleans native Andrew McLean will present a series highlighting the ways that the music of India has begun to impact and interact with the sounds and musicians of the Crescent City. McLean – who was nurtured by guitar great Hank Mackie and then by world music and jazz faculty at U. C. L. A.’s Department of Ethnomusicology and the Ali Akbar College of Music – pioneered the performance of Indian music in New Orleans, where he co-founded the Indo-New Orleans group Shringar. **State Museum Sponsored Program** 2:00-3:00 pm Dutch Alley - 916 N. Peters St Join The Arrowhead Duo for an interpretive musical performance featuring traditional New Orleans standards as well as songs from the Great American Songbook. 3:15-4:00 pm Dutch Alley - 916 N. Peters St 3:30-4:30 pm Dutch Alley - 916 N. Peters Street Join Ranger Jon Beebe as you sweat and move to the grooves of Brass Band Cardio and Core Workout, an exercise class and newest addition to the National Park Service Healthy Parks, Healthy People initiative. Please bring your own exercise mat. 8:00 – 9:30 pm New Orleans Jazz Museum Bon Bon Vivant: An Indie-Gypsy/New Orleans band playing original bawdy gypsy swing, dark ballads and up tempo indie rock/dance music. BBV pays homage to the New Orleans music tradition while infusing an indie/punk edge, attracting both swing dancers and indie-rock concert goers alike! **State Museum Sponsored Program**

National Park Service

U.S. Department of the Interior

New Orleans Jazz

National Historic Park

Visitor Centers:

916 N. Peters Street

New Orleans, LA 70130 (504)589-4841

New Orleans Jazz Museum

400 Esplanade Ave.

New Orleans, LA 70116 NPS Visitor Center: (504)589-2265

State Museum: (504) 568-6968

________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Old U.S. Mint November 4 Saturday 10:00-11:00 am Dutch Alley - 916 N. Peters St Bring comfortable clothing and your own yoga mat our newly renovated visitor center in Dutch Alley for Jazz Yoga. This free yoga class will feature instructor Susan Landry and meditational jazz piano by Peter Nu. November 4 Saturday 2:00 – 4:00 pm New Orleans Jazz Museum Planet M: Planet M is an open, ritualistic jam where musicians and movers gather and collaborate in a meditative manner. We will go through three phases of expanding awareness and explore our improvisational creation on a ground of safety. Facilitated by Ryuta Dutah Iwashita Suderman. **State Museum Sponsored Program** _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ November 7 Tuesday 12:00-1:00 pm Dutch Alley - 916 N. Peters St Piano virtuoso Richard “Piano” Scott performs an hour of traditional New Orleans jazz and its influences. 2:00-3:00 pm New Orleans Jazz Museum Ranger Matt Hampsey leads the Down on Their Luck Orchestra in a program demonstrating musical elements that helped nurture New Orleans’ role as the birthplace of jazz. The DOTLO is rounded out by Richard Scott on piano, Michael Harris on bass guitar, Joe Stolarick on drums, Hubie Vigreux on percussion, and Ranger James Barry on saxophone. 6:00 – 7:00 pm New Orleans Jazz Museum Care for a FUN, but INTENSE and EFFECTIVE full body workout? POP Pilates includes some Pilates-inspired moves done to the beat of music. It's like a dance on the mat! This is for all exercise levels. Come enjoy this workout at the New Orleans Jazz Museum. **State Museum Sponsored Program** _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ November 8 Wednesday 2:00-3:00 pm New Orleans Jazz Museum Join pianist Allen Bailey for an interpretive musical performance featuring traditional New Orleans standards as well as songs from the Great American Songbook. ____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________ November 9 Thursday 11:00-1:00 pm Dutch Alley - 916 N. Peters St Coastal Alabama Choir and Jazz Band perform musical selections in both choral and jazz band instrumentations. 2:00-3:00 pm New Orleans Jazz Museum Join The Arrowhead Trio for an interpretive musical performance featuring traditional New Orleans standards as well as songs from the Great American Songbook. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ November 10 Friday Closed to Honor Veteran’s Day _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ November 11 Saturday 12:00-1:00 pm Dutch Alley - 916 N. Peters St Join The Arrowhead Trio for an interpretive musical performance featuring traditional New Orleans standards as well as songs from the Great American Songbook. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ November 14 Tuesday 12:00-1:00 pm Dutch Alley - 916 N. Peters St Piano virtuoso Richard “Piano” Scott performs an hour of traditional New Orleans jazz and its influences. 2:00-3:00 pm New Orleans Jazz Museum Ranger Matt Hampsey leads the Down on Their Luck Orchestra in a program demonstrating musical elements that helped nurture New Orleans’ role as the birthplace of jazz. The DOTLO is rounded out by Richard Scott on piano, Michael Harris on bass guitar, Joe Stolarick on drums, Hubie Vigreux on percussion, and Ranger James Barry on saxophone. 9:30 am New Orleans Jazz Museum

Young Audiences Baby Artsplay!TM, presented by The Helis Foundation, offers an opportunity for young children and their caregivers to enjoy an educational, yet fun-filled trip to the New Orleans Jazz Museum. Hosted by eight cultural institutions around the city, Baby Artsplay!TM provides engaging activities designed to instruct parents, caregivers, and early childhood teachers in how to use the arts at home, school, and daycare to promote early learning. The 30-minute workshops allow children to explore, observe and investigate their world and the museum through song, dance and movement experiences. Workshops explore six key themes in early childhood development and s are conducted by a diverse group of certified Louisiana Wolf Trap Artists, who have expertly crafted multi-sensory experience that foster children’s natural curiosity for learning. Children and their caregivers will leave each session with a Connections Card exploring how workshop activities can be continued at home. Caregivers are encouraged to attend each of six workshops in a series. Interested in attending a workshop? Space is limited. Register at http://ya4la.org/baby-arts-play.php **State Museum Sponsored Program**

November 15 Wednesday 2:00-3:00 pm New Orleans Jazz Museum John Royen & Barry Martyn discuss New Orleans musical history, share stories about performing with historical New Orleans Jazz musicians, and perhaps even perform some of the historical music themselves! _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ November 16 Thursday 2:00-3:00 pm New Orleans Jazz Museum Join U.S. Marine Corps Forces Reserve Band Jazz Combo and your own JAZZ Park Rangers for a Veteran’s Day Celebration. The performance will feature Jazz Standards that helped propel Jazz into a World Wide Phenomenon! Semper Fi! _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ November 17 Friday 2:00-3:00 pm New Orleans Jazz Museum New Orleans native Andrew McLean will present a series highlighting the ways that the music of India has begun to impact and interact with the sounds and musicians of the Crescent City. McLean – who was nurtured by guitar great Hank Mackie and then by world music and jazz faculty at U. C. L. A.’s Department of Ethnomusicology and the Ali Akbar College of Music – pioneered the performance of Indian music in New Orleans, where he co-founded the Indo-New Orleans group Shringar. **State Museum Sponsored Program** http://www.musicatthemint.org/events/?view=calendar&month=November-2017 ** _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ November 18 Saturday 2:00-3:00 pm Dutch Alley - 916 N. Peters St Dances of Congo Square - Learn traditional African dance with accompaniment from master percussionist Luther Gray, dance instructor Mama Jamila and facilitated by Ranger Jimmy. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ November 21 Tuesday 2:00-3:00 pm New Orleans Jazz Museum Ranger Matt Hampsey leads the Down on Their Luck Orchestra in a program demonstrating musical elements that helped nurture New Orleans’ role as the birthplace of jazz. The DOTLO is rounded out by Richard Scott on piano, Michael Harris on bass guitar, Joe Stolarick on drums, Hubie Vigreux on percussion, and Ranger James Barry on saxophone. 6:00 – 7:00 pm New Orleans Jazz Museum Ann Powers music critic extraordinaire and author of the recently published “Good Booty: Love and Sex, Black and White, Body and Soul in American Music” will lead a dialogue examining how popular music shapes fundamental American ideas and beliefs, allowing us to communicate difficult emotions and truths about our most fraught social issues. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ November 22 Wednesday 2:00-3:00 pm Dutch Alley - 916 N. Peters St Join a local New Orleans Pianist for an interpretive musical performance featuring traditional New Orleans standards as well as songs from the Great American Songbook. ____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________ November 23 Thursday 2:00-3:00 pm Closed for Thanksgiving _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ November 25 Saturday 12:00-1:00 pm Dutch Alley Performance Pavilion- 916 N. Peters St Dances of Congo Square - Learn traditional African dance with accompaniment from master percussionist Luther Gray, dance instructor Mama Jamila and facilitated by Ranger Jimmy. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ November 28 Tuesday 12:00-1:00 pm Dutch Alley - 916 N. Peters St Piano virtuoso Richard “Piano” Scott performs an hour of traditional New Orleans jazz and its influences. 2:00-3:00 pm New Orleans Jazz Museum Ranger Matt Hampsey leads the Down on Their Luck Orchestra in a program demonstrating musical elements that helped nurture New Orleans’ role as the birthplace of jazz. The DOTLO is rounded out by Richard Scott on piano, Michael Harris on bass guitar, Joe Stolarick on drums, Hubie Vigreux on percussion, and Ranger James Barry on saxophone. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ November 29 Wednesday 2:00-3:00 pm New Orleans Jazz Museum Join a local New Orleans Pianist for an interpretive musical performance featuring traditional New Orleans standards as well as songs from the Great American Songbook. ____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________

November 30 Thursday 2:00-3:00 pm New Orleans Jazz Museum Fred Kasten continues his live interview series “Talkin Jazz” with a local New Orleans Jazz Master. 8:00 – 9:30 pm New Orleans Jazz Museum Don Paul & Rivers of Dreams deliver poems and songs and substantially improvised music. They explore omphalic contents of

Louisiana as a whole and its Crescent City in particular. They draw from sources that emanate like mist and horns around the

New Orleans Jazz Museum. Rivers of Dreams band-members are wonderfully illustrious including Roger Lewis, baritone

saxophone, has played, written and toured the world with the Dirty Dozen Brass Band for more than 20 years.

Kirk Joseph, sousaphone, another founder of the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, is widely praised for his innovations, bass-lines, and

melodies. Carl LeBlanc, banjo and guitar, is a champion of both the traditional and experimental. He played for years with both

Fats Domino and Sun Ra. Mario Abney, trumpet and Michael Torregano, piano.

**State Museum Sponsored Program**

http://www.musicatthemint.org/events/?view=calendar&month=November-2017 **

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Find updated New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park schedules at: https://www.nps.gov/jazz/planyourvisit/calendar.htm.

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