Judy Carmichael recently recorded an interview with one of the greatest musicians of 2009 Louis Armstrong Jazz Festival.
To listen the full interview with Scott Hamilton on website of Jazz Inspired, click the link below:
Joan Faulkner was definitely the "black voice" of the 2011 Lois Armstrong Jazz Festival, and don't forget her great company: the Csik Gusztav Trio.
We recommend their video from our slowly, but surely growing YouTube channel, where Joan sings on Ella's and Louis' voice:
After the summer, we are back with a music video medley - to everybody who visited and everybody who didn't - from Louis Armstrong Jazz Festival 2011.
Check out our nearly 7 minutes long video on following link.
"Jazz is something Negroes invented, and it said the most profound things -- not only about us and the way we look at things, but about what modern democratic life is really about. It is the nobility of the race put into sound ... jazz has all the elements, from the spare and penetrating to the complex and enveloping. It is the hardest music to play that I know of, and it is the highest rendition of individual emotion in the history of Western music."
Wynton Marsalis