[Dixielandjazz] This Music Has an Audience Too.

[Steve Barbone]

Preservation Hall proves every year that their version of "old" Dixieland
can generate an audience. Yet how many list mates will go to see them? Heck,
this New Orleans Jazz presentation from the world's most popular New Orleans
Trad Jazz Band even predates British Trad. :-) VBG.

Cheers,
Steve Barbone


Redlands, CA, 7/7/2006

Dixieland jazz music comes to Bowl stage

The city of New Orleans may have been drenched, but its spirit flourishes
with the music of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, coming to the Redlands
Bowl on Tuesday, July 11, as part of the Redlands Bowl Summer Music
Festival. 

Toes will tap, hands will clap and smiles will spread across the whole
audience as the world-famous jazz band performs New Orleans-style jazz and
keeps alive the traditions and history of this uniquely American sound. The
band has become an international ambassador for the Dixieland jazz sound,
touring worldwide. 

Many of the band's charter members performed with the pioneers who invented
jazz in the early 20th century, including Buddy Bolden, Jelly Roll Morton,
Louis Armstrong and Bunk Johnson.

The Preservation Hall Jazz Band derives its name from Preservation Hall, the
venerable music venue founded in 1961 by Allan and Sandra Jaffe, and located
in the heart of New Orleans' French Quarter.

Under the guidance of the current director Ben Jaffe, son of founders Allan
and Sandra, Preservation Hall continues with a deep reverence and
consciousness of its greatest attributes in the modern day as a venue, band
and record label. 

The band has traveled the world, nurturing and perpetuating the art form of
New Orleans jazz. They have performed at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, for
the British royalty and the king of Thailand, playing a music that embodies
a joyful, timeless spirit.