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.
The RH Factor
Distractions
MICROSCOPIC SEPTET
Friday the 13th The Micros Play Monk
WYNTON MARSALIS
From The Plantation To The Penitentiary
ERIC FRAZIER
In Your Own Time
VARIOUS
Rumble In the Great Lakes (Best of the Detroit Jazz Fest 2007)
Yelena Eckemoff Quintet
In The Shadow Of A Cloud
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