New Orleans Jazz Orchestra
Welcome to the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra, based at the historic New Orleans Jazz Market — the beating heart and creative laboratory of African-American culture. The orchestra’s music aims to convey a multifaceted, street-born identity, one that has been open to the most diverse influences and inspirations ever since its origins. The ensemble has collaborated with renowned artists Dee Dee Bridgewater, Sheila E., and Stevie Wonder, and tributed such legendary figures in black music as Aretha Franklin and John Coltrane. The New Orleans Jazz Orchestra preserves the original spirit of New Orleans, retracing the long and fascinating journey from gospel to the blues, which established jazz as a music of rebellion and social awareness.
