CBS’ 48 Hours presents “The Whole Gritty City” hosted by Wynton Marsalis.

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CBS’ 48 Hours presents “The Whole Gritty City” hosted by Wynton Marsalis. Look for Rebirth Brass Band’s Derrick Tabb and the Roots of Music. Watch it here for 2 weeks > http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/48-hours-presents-the-whole-gritty-city

New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival 2014

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Basin Street Records at 2014 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival:
April
25 Irvin Mayfield & The New Orleans Jazz Orchestra
26 Kermit Ruffins, Jon Cleary, Davell Crawford, Jeremy Davenport, Los Hombres Calientes
27 Rebirth Brass Band, Dr. Michael White
May
1 Bill Summers & Jazalsa
2 Theresa Andersson, Jason Marsalis, Dr.Michael White (Buddy Bolden Remembered)
3 Henry Butler (Butler, Bernstein & the Hot 9)
4 “Rest” day

See you in April and/or May at JazzFest!

IF YOU ARE A GRAMMY VOTER, OR KNOW ONE…

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We appreciate your vote on the first round ballot for the Rootsy My Gift To You album by Davell Crawford, the Jazzy Vocalistic album We Partyin’ Traditional Style! by Kermit Ruffins, and the Jazzy Instrumentalish album In A World of Mallets by Jason Marsalis Vibes Quartet. We’d also like to point your attention to our amazing Grammy winning engineers on the Davell Crawford record, David Farrell and Vlado Meller and to the multi-Grammy winning engineer Chris Finney and multi-Grammy winning producer Tracey Freeman on Kermit’s record. If you are a voting member and you’d like to hear the albums, send us a note, and we’ll get them to you.

Listen to clips here:

Davell: https://soundcloud.com/basinstreetrecords/sets/davell-crawford-gift-clips

Kermit: https://soundcloud.com/basinstreetrecords/sets/kermit-ruffins-partyin-clips

Jason: https://soundcloud.com/basinstreetrecords/sets/jason-marsalis-in-a-world-of

Bravo Top Chef Set In New Orleans

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The premiere of the new season of Top Chef is tonight. This season is set in New Orleans. Padma Lakshmi and Tom Colicchio had a wonderful time with much of what’s great in our city, including Kermit Ruffins, Davell Crawford, and Jason Marsalis!