Fat Tuesday Celebration With The New Orleans Jazz Orchestra
By R.J. McKay
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – Frances Egler, the director of Broadway programming and co-presentations at the Kimmel Center of the Performing Arts, previews the Fat Tuesday celebration on Tuesday, Feb. 17th, with the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra.
"It's traditional jazz, it's a lot of sort of what got started in New Orleans, which is what I guess a lot of people would associate with like a Dixieland. But then it is also sort of doing contemporary composers as well. Fat Tuesday in the plaza with roving New Orleans jazz bands, and also hurricanes and other sort of themed refreshments," Egler explains.
"[The New Orleans Jazz Orchestra] was founded in the early 2000s by its leader Irvin Mayfield, a noted trumpeter, who realized that New Orleans did not have its own jazz orchestra," Egler continues. "It had ensembles like Preservation Hall."
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