2004-05-24
Clarinetist Dr. Michael White is a professor of Spanish and Afro-American music at Xavier University, a former musical director at Lincoln Center and a mainstay on the New Orleans jazz scene. Beyond these achievements he’s also continued a 20 year recording career, including work with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band and as a solo artist on now his 6th album.On the new disc, he’s joined by a number of prominent figures from the annual New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, including trumpeter and Warner Brothers recording artist Nicholas Payton.
Fourplay
Silver
Bob James & Nathan East
The New Cool
Jay Geils, Duke Robillard and Gerry Beaudoin
New Guitar Summit
DON BYRON
“Do the Boomerang,” the Music of Junior Walker
VARIOUS
Rumble In the Great Lakes (Best of the Detroit Jazz Fest 2007)
Larry Carlton
Fire Wire
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