PRESERVATION HALL JAZZ BAND ABOUT
At a moment when musical streams are crossing with unprecedented frequency, it’s crucial to remember that throughout its history, New Orleans has been the point at which sounds and cultures from around the world converge, mingle, and resurface, transformed by the Crescent City’s inimitable spirit and joie de vivre. Nowhere is that idea more vividly embodied than in the Preservation Hall Jazz Band , which has held the torch of New Orleans music aloft for more than 60 years, all the while carrying it enthusiastically forward as a reminder that the history they were founded to preserve is a vibrantly living history.
PHJB marches that tradition forward once again on So It Is . The album redefines what New Orleans music means today by tapping into a sonic continuum that stretches back to the city’s Afro-Cuban roots, through its common ancestry with the Afrobeat of Fela Kuti and the Fire Music of Pharoah Sanders and John Coltrane, and forward to cutting-edge artists with whom the PHJB have shared festival stages from Coachella to Newport, including legends like Stevie Wonder, Elvis Costello and the Grateful Dead and modern giants like Beck, The Foo Fighters, My Morning Jacket, and the Black Keys.
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JO ADAMS:
The Lied Center has hosted many distinguished jazz artists since I joined the community in 1993. Two of my favorite memories are evenings with Chris Botti and Wynton Marsalis. After a recent trip to the New Orleans Jazz Festival, the Jazz Circle was an easy choice to fund. It brings great joy knowing audiences from across Nebraska will continue to enjoy worldclass jazz artists at The Lied Center and make lifelong memories with their friends and family.
Joline “Jo” Adams, Adams RBG Empowerment Fund
JON HINRICHS & DONNA WOODS:
Jon Hinrichs and Donna W. Woods are longtime Lincoln community leaders and supporters.
Jon is a retired physician, as well as a musician who especially enjoys playing jazz and old standards. He has been a long-standing supporter of the Nebraska Jazz Orchestra and Lincoln’s Symphony Orchestra. Donna has a well-known passion for the visual arts and also enjoys performing arts programs. She was part of the Lied Center’s founding team of community leaders, playing a role in the interior design of the venue in the late 1980s.
KATHERINE STARACE:
I am pleased to again be a sponsor in the Lied Center’s Jazz Circle. The Lied Center continues to bring great jazz musicians to Lincoln. In addition to the fabulous concerts, I appreciate the opportunity the Lied provides for local students to meet and learn from jazz masters.
I myself am not a musician, but have for many years enjoyed listening to music, especially jazz, which is such a part of American history.
I am glad to support the Lied Center because it is a jewel of Lincoln’s cultural scene with its diversity of programing. Not just jazz, but also dance, theater, and all kinds of music from around the world. Helping to support the Lied is one of my priorities.
JOHN & LAURIE TAVLIN:
John and Laurie have been dedicated supporters of Jazz Music for almost 50 years. John founded the Nebraska Jazz Orchestra in 1975. He served as NJO President and was a member of the NJO trumpet section from 1975 to 1988. As a jazz trumpeter John has been a soloist at sites ranging from London’s Crystal Palace Bowl to the jazz clubs of New York City, Chicago, Kansas City, Des Moines, New Orleans, San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego. He has performed with many jazz greats including Clark Terry, Bill Watrous, Don Menza and Ed Shaughnessy. In 1986 John was the recipient of the Lincoln Mayor’s Arts Award as a performing jazz artist.
In 2016 John founded the Johnny Manhattan Orchestra, a 19 member ensemble he created to support the University of Nebraska Jazz Studies Program by employing jazz students to perform side by side with professional musicians in an active working band featuring classic Swing Era music.
In 2023 John founded the Metro Jazz Quintet, an ensemble celebrating the rich tradition of Jazz Music with a sold-out performance series in the Lied Commons.
Through their company, Nebraska Diamond, John and Laurie have sponsored many guest artists appearing with the Nebraska Jazz Orchestra and at the University of Nebraska as well as sponsoring Jazz in June. In addition, they have created and funded a Graduate Fellowship in Jazz Trumpet and an Excellence in Jazz Performance Scholarship Fund through the University of Nebraska Foundation which has supported the jazz programs at both the University of Nebraska – Lincoln and the University of Nebraska - Omaha.
As Season Lieders, John and Laurie, together with their company Nebraska Diamond, support the entirety of Lied programming and as members of the Lied Jazz Circle they especially support the growth and appreciation of Jazz Music, a unique, creative and important American art form. They toast the Lied on another outstanding season of great performances!