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NOLA JAZZ LISTINGS

TUESDAY, JANUARY 13

A Preview of Rhythm and Words

Brandee Younger Trio on WWOZ

An Oral History

The Music of Alice Coltrane

Deep Dish Listening featuring Givonna Joseph

Ancestral Ballads

Sophisticated Giant

Sculpture with Sound

New African Orleans Family Festival

Deep Dish Listening

Nu Dem! A Senegambian Drum and Dance Workshop

Noah Young Trio

Charlie Halloran and the Tropicales

Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro

Roderick Paulin & The Swingsters

Mahogany Jazz Hall

Pat Casey & The New Sound

The Spotted Cat Music Club

Romare Bearden: Collage, Music, and Community

Historic St. Luke's Episcopal Church

The Music of Here and There: Migrations and 19th Century New Orleans

Historic St. Luke's Episcopal Church

Nueva Orleans: Latin American Influence in New Orleans History and Culture

Historic St. Luke's Episcopal Church

Nueva Orleans: Latin American Influence in New Orleans History and Culture

Historic St. Luke's Episcopal Church

Victor Goines Quintet

7:30pm & 9:30pm

Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro

Kente Cloth: Pattern, Symbol, and Meaning featuring artist Amy Bryan

Historic St. Luke's Episcopal Church

Charmaine Neville Band

Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro

Victor Campbell (solo piano)

Mahogany Jazz Hall

Byron Asher & Friends

Stanton Moore Trio

George Porter Jr. Trio

Corey Henry & The Tremé Funktet

d.b.a. New Orleans

Tom McDermott plays Tom McDermott

Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro

Delfeayo Marsalis' Uptown Jazz Orchestra feat. John Gray

Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro

NOLA Resistance Quintet

Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro

MARS Revisited with Steve Masakowski & Lawrence Sieberth

Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro

Kid Merv & All That Jazz

Bourbon 'O' Bar

Bayou Bar (The Pontchartrain Hotel)

The Nayo Jones Experience

The Carousel Bar & Lounge (Hotel Monteleone)

Good Measure at The Barnett Hotel

Anaïs St. John

Three Maries Jazz Club (Omni Royal Orleans Hotel)

Big 6 Brass Band

Candlelight Lounge

Kermit Ruffins & The BBQ Swingers

Latin Night with La Tran-K Band

Café Istanbul (New Orleans)

Keiko Komaki Duo (Free Happy Hour Set)

Three Maries Jazz Club (Omni Royal Orleans Hotel)

Kermit Ruffins & The BBQ Swingers

Kermit's Tremé Mother-in-Law Lounge

Gerald French Trio

Mahogany Jazz Hall

Mahmoud Chouki New World Ensemble

Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro

The Nayo Jones Experience

The Jazz Playhouse (Royal Sonesta Hotel)

Bayou Blues Burlesque feat. The Delta Revues

The AllWays Lounge

Bayou Bar (The Pontchartrain Hotel)

Charlie & The Tropicales plus Sarah Quintana

BJ's Bywater Lounge

Andrew Baham & The MJH All-Stars plus Midnight Burlesque

Mahogany Jazz Hall

Lawrence Sieberth & Christian Winther (Free Happy Hour Set)

Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro

Preservation Legacy Band feat. Will Smith

Preservation Hall

Noah Young Trio

Charlie & The Tropicales

Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro

Roderick Paulin & The Swingsters

Mahogany Jazz Hall

Joe Krown Trio +1

Siren Night with Anna Laura Quinn & Friends

Big 6 Brass Band

Celebration Hall

Pat Casey & The New Sound

9:30PM - 1:00AM

The Spotted Cat Music Club

Charmaine Neville Band

Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro

Victor Campbell (solo piano)

Mahogany Jazz Hall

Byron Asher & Friends

Gravitational Wave Astronomy and Ecological Listening, featuring Cory Diane

Historic St. Luke's Episcopal Church

Yusa & World of Rhyhms

Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro

Stephen Walker N' Em

d.b.a. New Orleans

Preservation Hall All-Stars feat. Andrew Baham

5:00PM - 8:45PM

Preservation Hall

Delfeayo Marsalis' Uptown Jazz Orchestra feat. Scott Johnson

Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro

Firm Roots with Peter Harris, Herlin Riley, Derek Douget, Dwight Fitch Jr. +sg

Bayou Bar (The Pontchartrain Hotel)

Alexis & The Sanity

New Orleans Pharmacy Museum

Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro

Vibe with Ayanna & Zahria Sims

Good Measure at The Barnett Hotel

Da Lovebirds feat. Robin Barnes & Pat Casey

Peacock Room (Hotel Fontenot)

Corey Henry & The Tremé Funktet

Vaughan's Lounge

Willie Green Project

Stephanie Jordan

Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro

Big 6 Brass Band

Candlelight Lounge

Anaïs St. John

Three Maries Jazz Club (Omni Royal Orleans Hotel)

Brass-A-Holics plus Vegas Cola

Una Noche de Musica Latina con La Tran-K

Kelly Love Jones (Free Happy Hour Set)

Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro

Herlin Riley Quartet

Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro

Good Measure at The Barnett Hotel

Noah Young Trio

Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro

Pat Casey & The New Sound

9:30PM - 1:00AM

The Spotted Cat Music Club

Big 6 Brass Band

Celebration Hall

Charmaine Neville Band

Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro

Victor Campbell (solo piano)

Mahogany Jazz Hall

Michael Pellera Quartet

Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro

Stephen Walker N' Em

d.b.a. New Orleans

Dabney Sullivan & The Muzik Jazz Band (free happy hour set)

Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro

Delfeayo Marsalis' Uptown Jazz Orchestra feat. Wes Anderson IV

Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro

Firm Roots with Peter Harris, Herlin Riley, Derek Douget, Dwight Fitch Jr. +sg

Bayou Bar (The Pontchartrain Hotel)

BassX featuring Julius McKee

Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro

Da Lovebirds feat. Robin Barnes & Pat Casey

Peacock Room (Hotel Fontenot)

Corey Henry & The Tremé Funktet

Vaughan's Lounge

Willie Green Project

Victor Goines Quartet

Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro

Big 6 Brass Band

Candlelight Lounge

ABOUT

jgi
New Orleans

JGI New Orleans is an innovative interdisciplinary residency, fellowship and creative hub based in New Orleans, offering opportunities for gatherings based on experimentation, creativity, and interdisciplinary explorations, while drawing inspiration from the city of New Orleans and its connections with the African diaspora, the Global South, and the Gulf South region.

Concert

Jul 10, 2026

Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro

7:30 & 9:30PM

New Orleans-bred saxophonist, clarinetist, composer and educator Victor Goines is one of the world's most respected voices in jazz. Notably, Victor performed in the Ellis Marsalis Quartet for a number of years beginning in the 1980s. Ellis later hired Victor as a faculty member when he created the University of New Orleans (UNO) Jazz Studies Department in 1989. Goines is widely recognized as one of the most engaging and versatile performers and composers in music today. Drawing from his New Orleans roots, his extraordinary career includes performances throughout the world earning acclaim from audiences, critics and colleagues, including as a member of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra in NYC and the Wynton Marsalis Septet since 1993.

He has recorded and/or performed with many iconic jazz and popular artists such as Ahmad Jamal, Ruth Brown, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Ray Charles, Bob Dylan, Dizzy Gillespie, Lenny Kravitz, Ellis Marsalis Jr, Branford Marsalis, Dianne Reeves, Willie Nelson, Marcus Roberts, Diana Ross, Stevie Wonder, and many more.

His discography boasts over 20 albums as a bandleader, and recordings on over 70 other releases, including Wynton Marsalis' Pulitzer Prize-winning recording, "Blood on the Fields" and Ted Nash's Grammy Award-winning "Presidential Suite." A gifted composer, Goines has more than 100 original works to his credit, including his 1992 debut album "Genesis" on the late Harold Battiste Jr's seminal AFO Records. In 2000, he was commissioned by Juilliard's Dance Division to compose a musical work in celebration of their 50th Anniversary.

In recent years, he was selected to lead music and jazz departments at Juilliard NYC and Northwestern University in Chicago, and served as executive artistic director of Jazz St. Louis from 2022 - 2026.

Goines returns home to New Orleans this summer for a Monthly Residency at Snug Harbor.

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Shows at 7:30pm & 9:30pm
Doors at 7:00pm & 9:00pm

Restaurant is Open 5pm - 10pm for dinner before or after your showtime: Advance Ticket Holders can now automatically make dinner table reservations for the Dining Room online via OpenTable.com

Advance Ticket-Holders can also make table reservations for dinner by Emailing reservations@snugjazz.com after your tickets have been purchased online. Dinner Service without Advance Concert Tickets is first-come, first-served based on availability upon arrival.

Concert

Jul 8, 2026

Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro

4:30PM

Sullivan Dabney is a professional drummer and vocalist born, trained, and based in New Orleans. For over 50+ years, he has performed in bandleader and support roles, debuting his first band during high school, The Orientals, and starting his long-term project, Sullivan Dabney Muzik Jazz Band, in 1972.

Mr. Dabney has toured extensively throughout the US and abroad. He’s been a staple at both French Quarter Fest and New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival for eyars, and headlined multiple international jazz festivals in the UK, Germany, Switzerland, and beyond. He’s appeared in numerous films and commercials, performed for famed Bourbon Street entertainer Chris Owens, LA Representative Lindy Boggs, and for eight years he played with the Krewe of Bacchus parade. With his Muzik Jazz Band, long-term local residencies include Harrah’s Casino and from 1986 – 2019, he performed on the Creole Queen, Cajun Queen, and River Rose New Orleans Paddlewheelers, where he was also the Director of Entertainment from 2016-2019.

Mr. Dabney’s musicality developed from percussion experiments with his mother’s pots and pans to memorizing the lyrics that drifted through the neighborhoods from local jukeboxes, porch steps, and radio. Early performance experience included playing trombone in the LB Landry Junior Marching Band and becoming the school’s flag bearer in its Senior Band. Dabney then was transferred to George Washington Carver Senior High School. There, under the tutelage of influential music educator and bandleader Miss Yvonne Busch, Dabney honed his craft and cultivated the discipline required of a working musician as he started playing the drums again and then became the section leader of the school’s band.

He shrugs off the label of traditional jazz often assigned to him, instead describing his style as a synthesis of jazz dialects, R & B, and various New Orleans phrasings. In his words, he plays to the room, “a little bit of everything to please everyone”, adding that he “seasons” the music to taste. In 1967, Mr. Dabney joined Tommy Ridgley’s R&B outfit, The Untouchables. Ridgley became a mentor, stressing the importance of professionalism and presentation, and learning the business of music. Dabney later toured with Ernie K-Doe for five years, and played with greats like Johnny Adams, King Floyd, Irma Thomas, Eddie Bo, Porky Jones, Jean Knight, Margie Joseph, Sammy Ridgley, among many others.

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Doors at 4:00pm

Show at 4:30pm - 6:00pm

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*This performance is FREE OF CHARGE, as part of Snug Harbor's community happy hour concert series, sponsored by the Jazz Foundation of America*

No reserved tickets; seating is first-come, first-served upon arrival. Bar opens at 4pm, Kitchen opens at 5pm.

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Concert

Jun 26, 2026

Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro

7:30 & 9:30PM

On June 26th, we'll time-travel back to the future of the early 1980s in New Orleans, when a young guitarist, Steve Masakowski, premiered what would become one of the innovations that cemented him as one of the city's great inventors: his hand-made key-tar. Masakowski's new instrument though, was not the "keyboard on a strap" - mass-produced by Moog and popularized by artists like Herbie Hancock and Prince - that most of us think of today when we hear the term "keytar." Steve's key-tar was still a guitar at heart, but reconstructed with his own cutting edge bespoke midi technology, at his house in New Orleans, incorporating electronics into the string instrument in a new way.

One of Steve's musical peers, Lawrence Sieberth, was also experimenting with new synthesizer keyboards coming out at the time, so Steve formed a band with Lawrence, the now late great rhythm reinventor James Black on drums, multi-instrumentalist James Singleton on bass, and a rebel crew of other exploratory musician friends.

They called the band MARS and focused on original music influenced by the early evolving electronic instruments and composers of the day. They recorded and released an LP simply entitled “Mars” in 1982 that featured other prominent jazz musicians that Steve was collaborating with, including Dave Liebman on sax, Ricky Sebastian on drums (who was also playing with the raucous Jaco Pastorius at the time), Patrice Fisher on harp, and Kent Jordan on flute. During the 1980s, the band would frequently present concerts with visual artist John Graubarth.

In 2023, MARS reunited for the first time in years, and tonight, four of the band's original members reunite once again, for one night only, for "Mars Revisited," featuring some of the music performed by the original group with Ricky Sebastian substituting for the late, great James Black on drums. And yes, Steve's enigmatic handmade key-tar will be there, making a rare appearance.

MARS REVISITED features:

‍Steve Masakowski - 7-string guitar, electric key-tar

Lawrence Sieberth - synthesizer keyboards

James Singleton- bass

Ricky Sebastian - drums

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‍Shows at 7:30pm & 9:30pm

‍Doors at 7:00pm & 9:00pm

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Restaurant is Open 5pm - 10pm for dinner before or after your showtime: Advance Ticket Holders can now automatically make dinner table reservations for the Dining Room online via OpenTable.com