NICKEL-A-DANCE: Gregg Stafford & The Jazz Hounds
Sun, Oct 27
|Favela Chic (formerly Café Brasil)
Great New Orleans trumpeter and vocalist Gregg Stafford spent much of his childhood in the Central City neighborhood, home also to early jazz phenom Buddy Bolden, nearly a century before him. He saw lots of parades, often sang in church, developed a real love of music, trained truly by local culture
Time & Location
Oct 27, 2024, 4:00 PM – 7:00 PM CDT
Favela Chic (formerly Café Brasil), 525 Frenchmen St, New Orleans, LA 70116, USA
About The Event
Great New Orleans trumpeter and vocalist Gregg Stafford spent much of his childhood in the Central City neighborhood, home also to early jazz phenom Buddy Bolden, nearly a century before him. He saw lots of parades, often sang in church, and developed a real love of music, trained truly by local cultural traditions more than school.
Stafford teamed up with Dr. Michael White in the 1980s, playing in each other's bands to preserve the musical heritage of New Orleans. Stafford took over leadership of the Young Tuxedo Brass Band in 1984, and then became a music educator in New Orleans public schools in 1985. He also became the leader of the Heritage Hall Jazz Band in 1992 after Kid Sheik Cola's death; this group performed regularly at Preservation Hall in the 1990s, where Stafford is still a resident artist today.
In 1994, he took over leadership of Danny Barker's…