THE GCEH JAZZ FEST HAS BEEN MOVED TO ITS RAIN LOCATION
351 WATER STREET
Kent Jordan
This year flutist Kent Jordan not only performs in GCEH Jazz Fest “Jazz in Bienville” on August 6 but he also brings his educational skills as this year’s clinician. Kent hosts the “Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong Summer Jazz Camp” in New Orleans and will be hosting the GCEH Youth Jazz Workshop for 2011.
Hailing from New Orleans, Jordan has dazzled audiences from Rio to Tokyo and firmly established himself as the foremost master of the jazz flute.
More and more audiences had been introduced to Jordan and his seemingly magic flute (and piccolo, too) through his stints on tour and in the studio with the Improvisational Arts Quintet, Wynton and Ellis Marsalis and “Tonight Show” guitarist Kevin Eubanks. But perhaps no collaboration has had stronger impact than his experience with the great jazz drummer Elvin Jones. Jordan toured the world and recorded with Jones for two years. “My experience with Elvin,” Jordan says, “was the pinnacle for me as a jazz artist … I found myself playing with a legend who helped forge the last great jazz music with the John Coltrane Quartet.”
Chris Saunders & Friends
The New Orleans pianist and vocalist makes a return to the Gulf Coast. A 20 year veteran of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage, French Quarter and Montreal International Jazz Festivals, he has worked with Tommy Dorsey, Harry Connick, Gregory Hines,Pete Fountain, Little Milton, Al Hirt, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Liza Minnelli and has many session, TV, radio and movie credits to his name.
Jimmy Roebuck is a native of the Gulf Coast. Jimmy is one of the premier drummers in this area and is in high demand for both live performances and as a session drummer. His long career as both a live performing artist and a recording session drummer has given him the experience to play any style of music. He especiallly enjoys live jazz performance.
Bassist Jo Morris, origination from the Gulf Coast has a musical career that spans many genres, primarily jazz, rock, pop and R&B. Jo has played with such artists as Dakota Staton, The JBs and has toured Japan . His playing style focuses on the overall sound of the band and sees his role in the group as supporting all members and “making the band sound good.”)
Larry Carter toured the US, Europe, Japan, etc, with New Orleans’ Walter ‘Wolfman’ Washington – 1989-2001 and toured Japan with Fred Wesley and James Brown rhythm section.”
Studied at Berklee in Boston.
