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| Dr. Michael White & the Original Liberty Jazz Band Snug Harbor Jazz Revival March 14th 5:00 PM PDT Dr. Michael White is a leading figure in traditional New Orleans jazz. He is best known today for his classic clarinet tone and style with his Original Liberty Jazz Band and the Dr. Michael White Quartet. White has become known as a jazz historian, composer, writer, and producer. For his many varied contributions to local music and culture, he was awarded the Keller Endowed Chair in the Humanities. He has been the musical director for several Jazz at Lincoln Center concerts and frequently serves as a guest coach in the Juilliard Music School Jazz Program. In his forty-five-year career, he has performed in nearly three dozen foreign countries and across the entire US. Dr. White has recorded on over eighty albums, including fifteen under his own name and others with such diverse artists as Wynton Marsalis, Paul Simon, Taj Mahal, and Eric Clapton. White has won numerous awards, including the French Chevalier of Arts and Letters, the NEA National Heritage Fellowships Award, The New Orleans Mayor's Arts Award, the Louisiana State Humanist Award, the Jazz Journalists of America's Jazz Hero Award, and the OFFBEAT Magazine's Best of the Beat Awards' Best Clarinetist twelve times. His group, The Liberty Brass was one of three groups to record on the acclaimed 2014 Smithsonian Folkways recording. Tonight, you get to see this one-of-a-kind artist and his legendary band perform live, from the comfort of your own home! write your comments about the article :: © 2021 Jazz News :: home page |