Danny Barker Resurgent Band Parade
Danny Barker Resurgent Band Parade
11am – 12:30 pm – route tba –
forms at and returns to Jazz Museum
Featuring the Sons of Jazz Brass Band
The Life and Legacy of Danny Barker:
Great Music and Talk
New Orleans Jazz Museum
400 Esplanade Avenue, New Orleans
By admission: $10
GRIOT STAGE (third floor – Jazz Museum)
12 pm – Danny Barker and the Second Line – Matt Sakakeeny interviews Gregg Stafford and Fred Johnson about Danny Barker’s lifelong
love of and commitment to second line and Social Aid & Pleasure Club culture – the controversy surrounding his funeral – and birth of the Black Men of Labor organization.
1 pm – Pianist Mari Watanabe and her band
2 pm – Trumpeter & vocalist Gregg Stafford & his band
3 pm – Fairview Baptist and Beyond – Melissa A. Weber interviews Leroy Jones, Herlin Riley and Dr. Michael White about Danny Barker’s role in the brass band revival of the 70s onward.
4 pm – Guitarist Steve Masakowski and friends
DANNY AND BLU LU STAGE
(Jazz Museum courtyard)
1pm – Trumpeter Leroy Jones and his band
2pm – Pianist Natsuko Furukawa trio
3 pm – Bassist Mark Brooks and his band
4 pm – Trumpeter and vocalist Kermit Ruffins
Event Performers

Dr. Michael White clarinet
Dr. Michael White
clarinet
Dr. Michael White is a jazz clarinetist, bandleader, composer, jazz historian and musical educator. Scott Yanow, a jazz critic, said in a review that White "displays the feel and spirit of the best New Orleans clarinetists."

Kermit Ruffins
Kermit Ruffins
“We Partyin’!” Kermit Ruffins needs only two words to hype a New Orleans barroom for one of his weekly shows, and this, his personal slogan, sums up what this Big Easy ambassador is all about.

Steve Pistorius Piano
Steve Pistorius
Piano
Steve Pistorius has the distinction of being the only living New Orleanian who specializes in early Jazz piano. Whether playing solo or leading a band, he creates joyful and swinging renditions of oft-neglected rags, waltzes, marches, pop tunes, blues and stomps.

Leroy Jones Trumpet
Leroy Jones
Trumpet
The legendary jazz trumpeter Leroy Jones is known to music lovers as the "keeper of the flame" for traditional New Orleans jazz and to critics as one of the top musicians ever produced by the Crescent City.

Steve Masakowski Guitar
Steve Masakowski
Guitar
Born and raised in New Orleans, Steve Masakowski has played guitar with most of the city’s greatest musicians.