Live From New Orleans The Jazz Foundation of America Presents: George French and the New Orleans Storyville Jazz Band featuring Gerald French and Jolynda Chapman
July 05, 2023 2:00 pm - July 05, 2023 3:00 pm
Jazz Museum | Free - Weekly
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Jazz Foundation of America presents live weekly concerts free to the public from the New Orleans Jazz Museum. You can see them every Wednesday in person or on our Facebook and Youtube pages. You are now able to attend these performances at the Jazz Museum in New Orleans. These series are also carried on Off Beat Magazine and Louisiana Music Factory Facebook pages. For this week's performance the Jazz Foundation of America is proud to present:
July 5, 2023
George French and the New Orleans Storyville Jazz Band featuring Gerald French and Jolynda Chapman
One musical family has been at the forefront of promoting and playing New Orleans music for decades. That family is the French family and the patriarch of this generation is the great bassist and singer George French. George began his career in the tradition of his father, the late Albert ‘Papa’ French, who led the Original Tuxedo Brass Band. George took that music farther and also explored other genres. George’s son Gerald French said, “My dad I think to me is like the refining part of that whole thing. Growing up in New Orleans in the late 40’s and 50’s got a lot of the R&B kind of stuff with him, but also was exposed to more modern jazz.” In fact, George was performing in studio sessions while still in high school and we on to play on dozens of hit records coming out of our city. He also shared the bandstand with a who’s who of New Orleans music greats. In addition to his work on bass, George French is just as heralded for what he can do with his voice. Quint Davis of Festival Productions explained, “George French as a singer. I don’t know if people know George French is like the Lou Rawls of New Orleans. When you see George French in the cubes in the Economy Hall Tent, you go to that.”
Jazz Foundation of America presents live weekly concerts free to the public from the New Orleans Jazz Museum. You can see them every Wednesday in person or on our Facebook and Youtube pages. You are now able to attend these performances at the Jazz Museum in New Orleans. These series are also carried on Off Beat Magazine and Louisiana Music Factory Facebook pages. For this week's performance the Jazz Foundation of America is proud to present:
July 5, 2023
George French and the New Orleans Storyville Jazz Band featuring Gerald French and Jolynda Chapman
One musical family has been at the forefront of promoting and playing New Orleans music for decades. That family is the French family and the patriarch of this generation is the great bassist and singer George French. George began his career in the tradition of his father, the late Albert ‘Papa’ French, who led the Original Tuxedo Brass Band. George took that music farther and also explored other genres. George’s son Gerald French said, “My dad I think to me is like the refining part of that whole thing. Growing up in New Orleans in the late 40’s and 50’s got a lot of the R&B kind of stuff with him, but also was exposed to more modern jazz.” In fact, George was performing in studio sessions while still in high school and we on to play on dozens of hit records coming out of our city. He also shared the bandstand with a who’s who of New Orleans music greats. In addition to his work on bass, George French is just as heralded for what he can do with his voice. Quint Davis of Festival Productions explained, “George French as a singer. I don’t know if people know George French is like the Lou Rawls of New Orleans. When you see George French in the cubes in the Economy Hall Tent, you go to that.”