Today officially starts the 2022 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, the first since 2019. As usual, I’ll be out in one of the WWOZ broadcast trucks mixing the acts at both the Blues and Economy Hall tents.
There has been a flurry of activity at the Archive over the past few months including a great story by Offbeat Magazine included in their 2022 Jazz Fest Bible. You can check out the article here, though you may need a subscription.
Happy Festing!
After a bit of a hiatus (about a year!) in posting, I’ve had a particularly eventful week. In addition to officially becoming a member of the Recording Academy (Memphis Chapter), I was asked to participate in a campaign to welcome Lebanon Valley College’s new president, Dr. James M. MacLaren.
Additionally, the most recent Association for Recorded Sound Collections newsletter released today features an article I wrote about Professor Longhair’s recording session for the Mardi Gras anthem, “Big Chief.” I also finished mixing and mastering a record featuring the Down on their Luck Orchestra (or “DotLO”), who served as the New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park’s house band at the New Orleans Jazz Museum from roughly 2015-2018.
Finally, I received some exciting news regarding a career change I’ll be revealing shortly!
Congratulations to Richard “Piano” Scott on his new album Port of New Orleans! I had a great time recording/mixing the record. It was a great pleasure working with Richard and the world-class musicians he carefully selected for this project. The album coincides with his new gig as band leader of the Twisty River Band on the steamboat, City of New Orleans. Check out Richard’s website here and his new site for Richard Scott’s Twisty River Band here!
A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of attending the Audio Engineering Society’s first International Conferences on Audio Archiving, Preservation, & Restoration at the Library of Congress’s National Audio Visual Conservation Center (NAVCC) Packard Campus in Culpeper, VA.
The conference presented a unique opportunity to tour the LOC’s amazing, state of the art facility, listen to some great presentations by experts in both the audio and archival fields, as well as chat with a lot of folks who are amazing at what they do!
Read more about the conference here.
I’m very honored to have been selected as an LVC Success Story! You can find the full article here.
I was proud to be selected as one of four Association for Recorded Sound Collection (ARSC) grant recipients this year! San Antonio was great and I am looking forward to the conference in Baltimore next year. What an amazing community of folks, very welcoming and open with their knowledge!
A big thanks to the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation and the folks at Music Inside Out for letting me be a part of the team for their first ever show recorded in front of a live audience – and featuring Chris Thile, to boot! What a great evening. Listen to the entire interview here.
Earlier this week, I had the pleasure of mixing WWNO/WWOZ’s live broadcast of the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra’s annual concert at the Saint Louis Cathedral for a second time. This year’s program, entitled “Uniquely New Orleans: The Classical Tradition in Jazz,” included pieces by Jelly Roll Morton and George Gershwin. It is always stirring to hear the orchestra play in such a historic space. They sounded great!