Jazz at the Sandbar
Jazz @ The Sandbar Returns
SPRING PERFORMANCE SERIES 2012 KICK-OFF
Brazilian Jazz trumpeter Claudio Roditi will kick off the Spring
2012 series of “Jazz @ the Sandbar” in the newly renovated Sandbar at the Cove on
the University of New Orleans Lakefront campus. This concert will be on Tuesday
March 6th as all Jazz @ the Sandbar shows will now be on Tuesdays
beginning at 7:00 p.m. Roditi will be the first performer for the performance
series Downbeat Magazine calls “One of the best things going in America.”
Claudio Roditi is a Brazilian jazz trumpeter.After arriving in the United States in 1970, he began to study at Berklee School of Music, where he became musically influenced by Clifford Brown and Lee Morgan. In 1976 he moved to New York and began to establish himself as a formidable jazz figure.Currently he leads his own band and frequently travels as a member of Dizzy Gillespie's United Nations Orchestra. He earned a Grammy Award nomination in 1995 for his "Symphonic Bossa Nova",and another in 2010 as Best Latin Jazz Album for Brazilliance.
Jazz @ the Sandbar is expected to return to its home for the new spring 2012 season. Originally built in 1973 as a student food and recreation center, the Cove quickly became the center of campus life. In 1990, UNO jazz studies director Ellis Marsalis turned The Cove into a living laboratory where UNO students performed with national and international jazz artists. The Cove was damaged during Hurricane Katrina and was demolished and rebuilt. The grand opening took place on Friday December 2nd, and it reunited students, faculty and community members into a big celebration.
“Jazz @ the Sandbar” is presented by the UNO Jazz Studies Program with support from the UNO Student Government Association, WWOZ, Nate & Priscilla Gordon, the UNO International Alumni Association and the New Orleans Jazz Celebration.
General admission is $5 per person. UNO Students, faculty and staff admitted free with their UNO Id. All proceeds go to the George Brumat Memorial Scholarship Fund. For more information, call the UNO Music Department at (504) 280-6039.
Jazz @ The Sandbar Returns
FALL PERFORMANCE SERIES 2011
LOCATION: UNO HOMER HITT ALUMNI CENTER (Milneberg Road at the Lake on UNO campus)
WHEN: OCTOBER 5 - NOVEMBER 16 / WEDNESDAYS 7:00 PM TO 9:30 PM
GEN’L ADMISSION $5.00 PER PERSON//UNO STUDENTS, FACULTY & STAFF FREEW/UNO ID
New Orleans, LA 9/19/11: New Orleans jazz legend Ellis Marsalis will kick off the Fall 2011 series of “Jazz @ the Sandbar” at the Homer Hitt Alumni Center on the University of New Orleans Lakefront campus October 5. UNO Professor Emeritus Ellis Marsalis will pay tribute to Thelonious Monk for the opening concert of the performance series Downbeat Magazine calls “One of the best things going in America.”
Thanks to the Homer Hitt Alumni Center, Jazz @ the Sandbar will be able to celebrate its 21st year of service to UNO Jazz Studies in their Geoghegan Grand Ballroom, located on the second floor of the Alumni Center. The Center is also developing a campaign to support the construction of the new Cove on campus which will become the permanent site for Jazz @ the Sandbar.
“Jazz @ the Sandbar” is presented by the UNO Jazz Studies Program with support from the UNO Student Government Assn, the UNO International Alumni Assn, the New Orleans Jazz Celebration & the Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro. Admission charge goes toward the George Brumat Scholarship Fund. For more information, please call the UNO Music Department at 504-280-6381 or Jason Patterson at 504-309-JAZZ.
The lineup for this FALL season’s Jazz @ the Sandbar schedule is as follows:
- October 5 - Ellis Marsalis “Tribute to Thelonious Monk”
As a leading educator at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, the University of New Orleans, and Xavier University of Louisiana, Ellis has influenced the careers of countless musicians, including Terence Blanchard, Harry Connick Jr., Nicholas Payton; as well as his four musician sons: Wynton, Branford, Delfeayo and Jason. In May, 2007, Marsalis received an honorary doctorate from Tulane University for his contributions to jazz and musical education.
- October 12 - Wess "Warmdaddy" Anderson
Wess "Warmdaddy" Anderson studied with Alvin Batiste at Southern University in Louisiana. He toured with the Wynton Marsalis Septet, and collaborated with Marsalis through the middle of the 1990s. He has continued to play with Marsalis's Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra. In 1994, he released his debut album on Atlantic Records; Eric Reed and Ben Wolfe were among those who played as sidemen.
- October 19 - Vocalist Rhondi Charleston & Guitarist Dave Stryker
Rhondi Charleston is a charming and powerfully poetic singer/songwriter with an expressive and sensuous voice. Chicago raised and Julliard trained, her album has been well-received, both for her soulful covers and for her original compositions. She brings in her powerful touring band that includes guitarist Dave Stryker.
Dave Stryker is a guitar player’s guitarist. Gary Giddins in the Village Voice calls him one of the most distinctive guitarists to come along in recent years. He was voted one of Downbeat Magazine’s Top Ten Guitarists in its Critics and Readers Poll. Stryker possesses knowledge of all styles, but he plays the blues with emotional depth, grit and soulful simplicity.
- October 26 - Drummer Herlin Riley
Herlin Riley was born in New Orleans, LA. Herlin was a
member of Ahmad Jamal’s group from 1984 through 1987. He has recorded with
important artists such as Dr. John, Harry Connick, Jr., George Benson, Marcus
Roberts, among others. In the Spring of 1988, he joined Wynton Marsalis’
touring and recording group, which he performed with through its disbanding in
late 1994. Herlin is regularly a featured musician at Jazz at Lincoln Center in
NYC.
- November 2 - Guitarist Lionel Loueke
Lionel Loueke (born 1973) is a guitarist born in the west African country of Benin. He moved to Ivory Coast in 1990 to study at the National Institute of Art.[1] He attended the American School of Modern Music in Paris, France from 1994-1998. In 1999, Loueke was awarded a scholarship to Berklee College of Music, where he earned a degree in Jazz Performance in 2000.
- November 9 - Bassist Bill Huntington
Bill Huntington is an American bass player and educator. He was professor of jazz at Loyola University New Orleans and at the University of New Orleans. He played and toured with musicians such as Ellis Marsalis, Lionel Ferbos, Steve Masakowski, Dr John, and Wendell Brunious. His legacy as an educator is invaluable and many of today’s modern masters of the bass were his students during his years at Loyola and UNO.
- November 16 - Trumpeter Leon "Kid Chocolate" Brown
He has style and elegance. Trumpeter Leon “Kid Chocolate” Brown is an emerging, young musician on the New Orleans scene who collaborates with the likes of Irvin Mayfield and Shannon Powell. Kid Chocolate played Jazz Ascona 2011 as part of Irvin Mayfield and the New Orleans Jazz Playhouse Revue.
“…is one of the best things going in America.” –Downbeat Magazine
Archival video of Jazz @ the Sandbar from 1992 (at the original Sandbar in the Cove)
Images from the 20th Anniversary Fall 2010 series of Jazz @ the Sandbar
Images courtesy of Brian Epstein
October 27, 2010 Drummer and Balafon player Seguenon Kone with Brian Seeger's combo
October 6, 2010 Saxophonist Brice Winston with UNOJO
October 13, 2010 Trumpeter Jeremy Davenport with UNOJO and UNO Jazz Voices
‘Jazz at the Sandbar’ was established in 1990 by Ellis Marsalis, the
first Chairman of the Jazz Studies Program at the University of New
Orleans. The Jazz at the Sandbar
performances are designed to provide UNO Jazz Studies students an opportunity
to get real life experience performing with professional musicians in front of
a live audience. The series is presented
on Wednesday nights during the Fall and Spring semesters and features a
different respected jazz artist each week. It also provides a medium in which
students exercise their improvisational skills and gives them the rare
opportunity to work with jazz masters which have included Marcus Roberts, Ravi
Coltrane and Nicholas Payton. Downbeat Magazine has declared “Jazz at the
Sandbar Series is one of the best things going in America.”
Saxophonist Sonny Fortune with UNO Jazz Combo
