.@Tromboneshorty has announced the date and ticket sales info for this year's Treme Threauxdown at @SaengerNOLA. Last year's sold out, so get your tickets! https://t.co/ieX5WngnmR
“We [as artists] draw from everything we listen to, it’s not so simple to label [our genre]...it’s our artistic expression of the world.” - @aparksmusic at the Alternative Jazz panel #JazzCongress
"Louis Armstrong was a phenomenal person. The first time I met him for three minutes, I felt like I had known him my entire life. He has such a warmth, such an aura" - @NEAarts Jazz Master Dan Morgenstern #JazzCongress#JazzCongress
Come join us at Convention Hall Dec. 8th for Cape May's annual Holiday Reception Featuring America's Sweethearts! #CapeMayNJ#Holiday https://t.co/NpwFNOFmti
"Jazz means freedom and openness. It's a music that, although it developed out of the African American experience, speaks more about the human experience than the experience of a particular people."
Happy birthday, Mahalia Jackson, born on this date in New Orleans in 1911! Here she is with an emotional Louis at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1970. #LouisArmstrong#MahaliaJackson
Erroll Garner's Concert by the Sea, one of jazz's most celebrated live albums, was released on this day in 1955.
Stephen Thomas Erlewine called it, "the kind of warm, inviting music that seems born from joy and can't help but engender bliss in the listener."