Hosted by the Oak Street Association, the New Orleans Po-Boy Preservation Festival was founded as a celebration of the storied sandwich and the role it has played in New Orleans' culinary culture. History has it that a local shop owner who was formerly a streetcar driver began feeding the striking the workers for free. When a hungry worker would come in off of the picket line the call would go out: "here comes another poor boy!" From those humble beginnings spring the many varieties of the po-boy sandwich; a New Orleans original of which there is no sub-stitute!
The 2011 Jazz Cruise, where the legends have played and the tradition continues, takes place January 30 - February 6, 2011.
The line-up includes: Jane Monheit, James Moody Quartet, Lewis Nash Quartet, Ken Peplowski, Houston Person Quartet, Bucky Pizzarelli, Chuck Redd, Anita Rosamond, Janis Siegel Quartet, Gary Smulyan, Terel Stafford, Grant Stewart, and George Wein Newport All-Stars, to name a few.
Hightlights include jazz trumpeter Terell Stafford. Stafford has been hailed as "one of the great players of our time, a fabulous trumpet player" by piano legend McCoy Tyner, with whom Terell played as part of McCoy Tyner’s Latin All-Star Band. Since the mid-1990's Terell has performed with the top groups including the Grammy-nominated Vanguard Jazz Orchestra and the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra. An educator as well as a performer, Terell is a Professor of Music and Director of Jazz Studies at Temple University, a clinician for the Vail Foundation and Jazz at Lincoln Center's Essentially Ellington Program. He has also served as a member of the faculty for the Juilliard Institute for Jazz Studies in New York.
Crescent City Blues festival is a free festival presented by the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation. The 2-day festival features two stages of music, a crafts fair and some of the best barbecue in the South. Musical performances take place Saturday, October 16 at 10:30 a.m. - 8:15 p.m and on Sunday, October 17 at 9:30 a.m - 7:00 p.m.
Detroit International Jazz Festival will host the 31st annual event, September 3-6, 2010. Entitled “Flame Keepers – carrying the torch for modern jazz,” the festival will pay homage to trailblazers Art Blakey, Ray Brown, Miles Davis, Horace Silver, Betty Carter, Lester Bowie and Gil Evans.
