Program Notes: New Orleans Jazz ft. Dr. John

PROGRAM Euphoria Brass Band (Selections to be announced from the stage)

INTERMISSION DR. JOHN

Dr. John (Selections to be announced from the stage)

Thursday, July 27, 2017 | 7:30PM

NEW ORLEANS JAZZ FEAT. DR. JOHN guitar and vocals Dr. John Euphoria Brass Band: trumpet Steve Ebner trombone April West tenor sax David Jackson baritone sax, alto sax, clarinet JP Balmat sousaphone Wayne Rice snare drum Ron Bocian bass drum Drew Miller guitar, trombone Bill Driskill

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ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Dr. John was awarded the Louie Award from Louis Armstrong House Museum in 2015, and he received the Jazz Foundation of America's Hank Jones Award in 2016 at “A Great Night in Harlem” which raised $1 million to help musicians recovering

The legendary DR. JOHN is a six-time Grammy® Award-

from the Louisiana Flood.

winning musician and Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee. Known throughout the world as the embodiment of New Orleans’

Last year, Dr. John and The Nite Trippers released “The

musical legacy, Dr. John is a true icon in American culture. His

Bare Necessities” for Disney's blockbuster The Jungle Book

colorful musical career began in the 1950s when he wrote and

soundtrack, and he released the double live album and DVD The

played guitar on some of the greatest records to come out of

Musical Mojo of Dr. John: A Celebration of Mac & His Music with

the Crescent City, including recordings by Professor Longhair,

performers including Bruce Springsteen, Widespread Panic,

Art Neville, Joe Tex, Frankie Ford and Allen Toussaint.

Mavis Staples, Aaron Neville, John Fogerty and many more.

After more than half a century of creating music for others

Dr. John headed west in the 1960s, where he continued to be in

and himself, Dr. John continues to write, arrange, produce and

demand as a session musician, playing keyboards on records by

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Sonny and Cher, Van Morrison, Aretha Franklin and The Rolling Stones' Exile On Main St. During that time he launched his solo career, developing the charismatic persona of Dr. John The Nite Tripper. A legend was born with his breakthrough 1968 album Gris-Gris, which introduced to the world his unique blend of voodoo mysticism, funk, rhythm & blues, psychedelic rock and Creole roots. Several of his many career highlights include the masterful album Sun, Moon and Herbs in 1971, which included cameos from Eric Clapton and Mick Jagger, and 1973’s In The Right Place, which contained the chart hits “Right Place Wrong

EUPHORIA BRASS BAND is a San Diego based musical collective that serves up a contemporary mix of old school New Orleans traditional brass band jazz, funky street

Time” and “Such A Night.”

beats and new school

In addition to his six Grammy® wins (1989, 1992, 1996, 2000,

feeling!

2008 and 2013), Dr. John has received six other Grammy® nominations. In 2007 he was nominated for Sippiana Hericane, his Hurricane Katrina benefit disc. After Hurricane Katrina, Dr. John immediately stepped up to the plate with generous relief fundraising concerts and recordings including City That Care Forgot, winning him a Grammy® for Best Contemporary

edginess with a West Coast

EBB was created in 2011 by two New Orleans transplants, Ron Bocian and David Bandrowski, and local jazz radio DJ Drew Miller. They quickly assembled a top notch, hard-hitting horn section: Steve Ebner (trumpet), April West (trombone), David Jackson (tenor sax), JP Balmat (baritone & alto sax, clarinet)

Blues Album.

and Wayne Rice (sousaphone). Euphoria Brass Band is proud to

His album Locked Down, released in 2012 with Dan Auerbach

Music Awards since their inception in 2011! Embracing the

have been nominated five years in a row for various San Diego

of The Black Keys, won a Grammy® for Best Contemporary

exciting spirit of improvisation with a hard funk edge, Euphoria

Blues Album, and Auerbach won a Grammy® for Producer of

Brass Band has become known for their incendiary high energy

the Year. In 2013, Dr. John was awarded an honorary doctorate

shows. The very end of 2016 saw the release of Euphoria’s first

from Tulane University alongside His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

live release, Live & Loud!, boasting burning performances from

In 2014, Dr. John released a critically acclaimed tribute to

two well-known San Diego music venues: Panama 66 at the San

Louis Armstrong called Ske-Dat-De-Dat: The Spirit of Satch.

Diego Museum Of Art and Seven Grand. n

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