Irvin Mayfield performs several times. Spend a day with Kermit Ruffins. Listen to Rebirth Brass Band and Jeremy Davenport too. The 2015 French Quarter Festival sponsored by Chevron gives you great opportunities to taste, hear, feel and see what’s great about New Orleans and Louisiana. Come visit.
Check out our artists schedules at http://www.BasinStreetRecords.com/on-tour
Check out the complete schedule at http://www.fqfi.org
Grammy voter? Thank you for considering Rebirth Brass Band’s Move Your Body. The band won the Grammy for Regional Roots music album a few years ago, and we’d love to see them receive another nomination!
Our two new albums, Jason Marsalis Vibes Quartet’s The 21st Century Trad Band (10/27), and Irvin Mayfield’s first Christmas album, A New Orleans Creole Christmas (11/11) are available this Fall.
Prefer iTunes? These are all Mastered for ITunes and have digital booklets available! Click these links:
Jason’s new one
Irvin’s new one
Rebirth’s new one
Basin Street Records’ artists Dr.Michael White and Jason Marsalis will be interviewed by Brooke Baldwin on CNN on New Year’s Eve in the half hour leading up to New Year central time. Dr.Michael White released Adventures in New Orleans Jazz, Part 2 in 2012, and Jason Marsalis will release In A World Of Mallets on February 19, 2013.
Dr.Michael White was named Humanist of the Year by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, and received the National Endowment for the Arts’ National Heritage Fellowship.
Jason Marsalis received the National Endowment for the Arts’ Jazz Master award with his musical father Ellis, and brothers Branford, Wynton and Delfeayo.
Both Jason and Michael were named to Downbeat Magazine’s recent Critics’ and Readers’ polls!
In New Orleans on New Year’s Eve? Check out Kermit Ruffins at Kermit’s Treme Speakeasy early from 5p till 8p, Jon Cleary at Chickie Wah Wah 9p, Irvin Mayfield at Irvin Mayfield’s Jazz Playhouse 9p, Jeremy Davenport in the Davenport Lounge at the Ritz-Carlton 9p and Rebirth Brass Band at the Howlin Wolf 10:30p.
Kermit Ruffins takes a drive through the streets of New Orleans in a Lexus on his way to his regular Thursday night gig at Vaughan’s. Watch out! Pick up his latest CDs, Happy Talk (currently #5 on the Billboard Jazz Chart) and Have A Crazy Cool Christmas (featuring the original hit, A Saints Christmas).
Learn more about the Louis Armstrong Jazz Camp in New Orleans. This year’s artists-in-residence include Candido Camero, Bobbie Sanabria and Norma Miller. Previous artists-in-residence included Wynton Marsalis, George Duke and Clark Terry. Visit www.louisarmstrongjazzcamp.com for more information or to make a donation.