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| Stephanie Jordan at Sweet Lorraine's by Sylvain Music Notes  Sweet Lorraine's Jazz Club is pleased to present a great night of jazz featuring jazz vocalist Stephanie Jordan with Alto saxophonist Wess "Warm Daddy" Anderson and trumpeter Marlon Jordan for two shows on Saturday, March 31, 2007. Known as the Club with the Silver Lining, Sweet Lorraine's is located just on the edge of the French at 1931 Saint Claude Avenue, New Orleans, Louisiana. Stephanie and Wess' most recently performed together this past fall in the famed Allen Room of Jazz at Lincoln Center, New York. Their four shows left the audience wanting for more.This show is the culmination of a three city "homecoming" tour of Baton Rouge, Lafayette and New Orleans. Ms. Jordan who has been living in Maryland since hurricane Katrina is the fifth performer to emerge from a family of New Orleans bred musicians. Anderson, a Brooklyn native studied with acclaimed clarinetist Alvin Batiste while attending Southern University in Baton Rouge. "Every so often a new voice stands up and proclaims itself, but few do so with such supreme depth and understated soul. Emerging from the New Orleans jazz family Jordan, Stephanie Jordan was . . . Jazz at Lincoln Center Higher Ground Concert's 'real discovery' "proclaims JazzTime Magazine."Warmdaddy", whose buoyant saxophone voice continues to proclaim itself with unmatched joy and warmth, will provide sweet counterpoints and Marlon has been noted as one of the best trumpeter of his generation. "Stephanie, a winner of the prestigious Billie Holiday Competition, has a nearly perfect voice with a healthy dose of soul" writes the president of South Florida JAZZ. Her style has been compared by some to Dianna Krall, Norah Jones and Shirley Horn while to others it evokes Nancy Wilson, Dianne Reeves and even Nat Cole. Her stage presence is dazzling a la Lena Horn. Stephanie was the standout performer at nationally televised Jazz at Lincoln Center hurricane relief benefit concert hosted by Wynton Marsalis less than three weeks after the Katrina disaster that devastated New Orleans. Her rendition of "Here's to Life" was selected from that concert for the Blue Note Records' Higher Ground CD. She and Marlon later toured as "Jazz Ambassadors" on behalf of the U.S. State Department to four European countries in the fall of 2006 to thank the people of Europe for their help with hurricane relief. Stephanie and Marlon's CD, You Don't Know What Love Is album has been highly acclaimed. Her performance on Kent Jordan's Out of This World album has been equally received. Stephanie has performed at Jazz Standard New York, The Kennedy Center, Marians Jazzroom in Bern, Switzerland, New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and on NPR Talk of the Nation among others. Stephanie Jordan has recorded a commissioned piece for the Baton Rouge Area Foundation of "Come Rain or Come Shine" which is being used as background music for a series of television and radio promotions advancing the availability of assistance for those who may be suffering from post-disaster distress as a result of hurricanes Katrina and Rita. The campaign is part of the "InCourage" partnership; a healing initiative by the Baton Rouge Area Foundation. Both pieces include a narration by noted New Orleans' Chef Leah Chase. A member of the Wynton Marsalis Septet since 1988, Anderson also played lead alto for the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra from 1992 to 2005. As a leader, Mr. Anderson has recorded and released four solo albums, Warmdaddy in the Garden of Swing (1994), The Ways of Warmdaddy (1996), Live at the Village Vanguard (1998), and Space (December, 2005). He performs and teaches around the world, and is professor of saxophone at Michigan State University. Anderson is a frequent participant in Jazz at Lincoln Center educational events, and he served on the faculty of the Juilliard Institute for Jazz Studies. "Wess Anderson's playing contains the essence of soul, that's why we call him "Warmdaddy" says Wynton Marsalis. Marlon Jordan was one of the "Young Jazz Lions" who were signed, recorded and promoted on major record labels in the 1980s. He recorded three impressive LPs for Columbia from 1998 to 1992, For You Only, Learson's Return, and The Undaunted, and one for the Arabesque label entitled Marlon's Mode in 1997. His latest album, announces the return of an exceptional trumpeter. This dancing and delicious document reveals a mature artist who sounds like himself. You can hear Jordan's clean, boppish lines laced with power, and an encyclopedic knowledge of the entire jazz trumpet tradition, signed in own unique sonic signature. write your comments about the article :: © 2007 Jazz News :: home page |