NOV

Please join us for an informal roundtable discussion with readings  and a live performance. JGI New Orleans June Resident Dr. Josh Kun will be in conversation with Rachel Ornelas, Oscar Rossignoli, and Yuri Herrera about Latin American histories in New Orleans, with an emphasis on contemporary legacies of Mexico and Honduras.

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This event is free and open to the public.

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Please bring a non-perishable food item for the church food pantry.

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Come join Jazz Generations Initiative New Orleans for Deep Dish Listening with Bruce “Sunpie” Barnes and Cole Williams.

Deep Dish Listening is an opportunity for audiences to listen to vinyl and hear from experts on different genres of music in a relaxed and informal setting. We are excited to explore Louisiana Creole music with two impactful and renowned artists from our Gulf South community.

This event is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be provided.

Please bring a non-perishable canned food item for the church pantry.

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Participants will explore symbolism, nature imagery, and personal storytelling through the artwork of Frida Kahlo.

Using flowers, animals, and meaningful objects as inspiration, participants will create symbolic self-portraits that connect personal identity with visual metaphor.

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Inspired by the work of Elizabeth Catlett, workshop participants will explore portraiture, identity, and themes of dignity through printmaking.

The workshop will focus on expressive imagery, simplified forms, and the power of art to communicate personal and collective experiences.

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This workshop introduces participants to the rich visual tradition of Kente cloth and the symbolic meanings behind color and pattern. Participants will create pattern-based artworks inspired by weaving traditions while exploring rhythm, repetition, and visual storytelling.

An environmental listening session & works-in-progress concert, where Diane will share new pieces created during their two-week residency.

JGI New Orleans and A Studio in the Woods present JGI June Resident Cory Diane will host an environmental listening session and works-in-progress concert, where they will share new pieces created during their two-week residency. Connecting gravitational wave astronomy and deep ecological listening, Diane will share their experiments with a new geophone, recording low-frequency vibrations throughout Bulbancha. This concert will be a window into their process - a moment for meditation on place, space, and time, on grief and joy, with saxophone, piano, zither, voice, and breath.

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JGI New Orleans June resident Dr. Josh Kun will lead a discussion on Latin American historic and cultural influences in New Orleans.

Dr. Kun will bring together Rachel Ornelas, Oscar Rossingoli, and Dr. Yuri Herrera to discuss Latin American histories in New Orleans, with an emphasis on contemporary legacies of Mexico and Honduras

The event will include a mix of conversation, readings, and live performance.

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The Music of Here and There: Migrations in and out of 19th Century New Orleans, featuring JGI New Orleans Resident Dr. Josh Kun

JGI New Orleans June Resident Dr. Josh Kun will host a musical conversation with Grammy nominated artist Leyla McCalla and Grammy award-winning artist  Louis Michot featuring stories of Louis Moreau Gottschalk, Edmund Dédé, and the 8th Cavalry Mexican Military Band.

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Originally from Denver, Colorado, bassist Pat Casey's music career has already lead him around the world playing throughout the US, Europe, and India among many other places. He possesses a diverse musical palette, consisting mostly of Jazz, Gospel, Funk, Afro-Cuban, and Samba/Bossa-Nova.Since arriving in New Orleans in February 2008, Pat has become one of the most prominent bassists in each of the respective styles in which he is fluent. Pat can be seen playing in many settings and stages in almost any of the New Orleans live music venues. By utilizing and combining his musical influences, he has also created a distinct and refreshingly unique music as exemplified by his ever-exciting and innovative project: "Pat Casey and the New Sound." Consisting of similarly diverse and experienced players, this band includes some of the very top young creative musicians in New Orleans today. In any of his musical environments, Pat's sound is insightful, powerful, and solid.

Roderick “Rev” Paulin, a saxophonist and clarinetist, was born with deep roots in the New Orleans music scene. The son of legendary band leader Ernest “Doc” Paulin, who led brass bands on the streets of New Orleans for over 70 years, young Roderick was steeped in musicianship, performance standards, history, and a deep love for his hometown traditions. The talented musician earned an undergraduate degree at Southern University in Baton Rouge, studying with educators like Edward “Kidd” Jordan and Roger Dickerson.

Over his nearly 50-year career, Paulin has performed with his own band, Rev Paul and the Congregation, and with a Who’s Who of American music: John Legend, Allen Toussaint, The Grateful Dead, Aaron Neville, Harry Connick, Jr., the Marsalis family, Trombone Shorty, The Afghan Whigs, and the Brand New Heavies. He effortlessly weaves through R&B, avant-garde, be-bop, traditional, and contemporary jazz sounds

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Trombonist Charlie Halloran seems to be everywhere at once in New Orleans. A fixture of the Crescent City's traditional jazz and Frenchmen Street scene, Charlie's 60’s-style Caribbean lounge band, the Tropicales, entertain regularly at Zony Mash, The Spotted Cat and DBA. He’s recorded prolifically, appearing on Jon Cleary’s Grammy winning Go-Go Juice and followup Dynamite and Maria Muldaur’s Grammy nominated Don’t You Feel My Leg. Charlie has released 5 albums under his own name, and made countless records alongside the Squirrel Nut Zippers, John Boutte, Rickie Lee Jones, U2, Meschiya Lake and the Little Big Horns, the Panorama Jazz Band, The Shotgun Jazz Band, the Palmetto Bug Stompers, Pokey Lafarge, Luke Winslow King, Alex McMurray, you name it. Additionally, Charlie’s horn is in the background on plenty of episodes of NCIS New Orleans, Treme, and other films and television programs produced in New Orleans.

Noah Young is a young lion of a bass player, holding down the grooves for the internationally acclaimed Naughty Professor as well as for his own band, the Noah Young Trio. When not touring, Young can be found recording and performing across the city with luminaries including Mahmoud Chouki and Jamison Ross.

Participants will explore the vibrant collage work of Romare Bearden and create layered mixed-media artworks.

Participants will explore the vibrant collage work of Romare Bearden and create layered mixed-media artworks inspired by memory, storytelling, music, and community life. Using painted papers, patterned materials, and collage techniques, participants will experiment with composition, texture, and visual rhythm.

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2026 JGI Fellow Dr. Tim Mangin will host Nu Dem!: A Senegambian Drum and Dance Workshop, featuring an amazing lineup of artists: Weedie Braimah, Awa Diagne, Magatte Sow, and Babacar Seck.

This event is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be provided. No prior drumming or dancing experience is required. Please bring a non-perishable food item for the church’s pantry.

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Featuring the JGI New Orleans 2026 Jazz Cohort: Tonya Boyd Cannon, Steve Lands, Aurora Nealand, Victor Campbell, and Max Moran

The Music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda featuring Sita Michelle Coltrane, the Brandee Younger Trio with Rashaan Carter & Allan Mednard, the Devotional Ensemble with Lisa E. Harris, Arianna Gouveia, and the Xavier University Opera Workshop, led by Dr. Sakinah Davis, plus special guest performers Gladney, Alexey Martí, and Courtney Bryan

Join us at the Community Book Center! Bamboula: Jazz Studies in Motion Resident Maxine Gordon will be in conversation with renowned jazz clarinetist and saxophonist, Tulane University instructor, and co-founder and Executive Director of Second Line Arts Collective Gregory Agid and co-founder of the Jazz Generations Initiative and Tulane University professor, Dr. Courtney Bryan around Gordon’s book, Sophisticated Giant: The Life and Legacy of Dexter Gordon.

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Bamboula: Jazz Studies in Motion invites you to Sculpture with Sound: A Workshop inspired by the work of Alysan Saar and led by artist Amy Bryan.

The Neighborhood Story Project, with support from the Jazz Generations Initiative-New Orleans invites you to a day and night of music, fashion, food, and books! Artists include: MC Sunni Patterson, Culu Traditional African Dance Company, Afrissippi, Leyla McCalla, Rama Diaw Fashion –– Saint Louis, Senegal, The Spirit of Fi Yi Yi, DJ Jubilee with Big Nine, Weedie Braimah, Corey Henry and the Treme Funktets and more!

Musician and archivist Lerin Williams and composer and producer Lisa E. Harris, and renowned visual artist Ron Bechet will introduce and discuss Oliveros’ background, evolution, and philosophical practices, including one or two exercises to ground the listening session. We will also discuss the importance of soundscapes, nature, consciousness, and ritual in the context of communal experiences with sound.

Givonna Joseph will talk about the music and impact of internationally renowned mezzo-soprano opera singer and New Orleanian Shirley Verrett. Joseph is the founder and artistic director of OperaCréole.

Jazz from Jax Brewery, hosted by T.R. Johnson

Students and Invited Guests Only

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Bamboula: Jazz Studies in Motion Resident Dr. Tao Leigh Goffe will be in conversation with director of the Land Memory Bank and Seed Exchange Monique Verdin, creative director of Bamboula: Jazz Studies in Motion Dr. Denise Frazier, and  co-founder of Bamboula: Jazz Studies in Motion Dr. Courtney Bryan around the topics of sound and the environment.

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An Oral History Presentation of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda with Sita Michelle Coltrane & Brandee Younger

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Featuring Allan Mednard

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Integriti Reeves’s style is often described as “modern vintage,” an eclectic fusion of the old and the contemporary.

Inspired by classic jazz vocalists like Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday, Reeves performs a hybrid of straight-ahead standards, Brazilian-inspired rhythms, pop and contemporary Black American Music.

Integriti Reeves’s style is often described as “modern vintage,” an eclectic fusion of the old and the contemporary.

Inspired by classic jazz vocalists like Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday, Reeves performs a hybrid of straight-ahead standards, Brazilian-inspired rhythms, pop and contemporary Black American Music.

Integriti Reeves’s style is often described as “modern vintage,” an eclectic fusion of the old and the contemporary.

Inspired by classic jazz vocalists like Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday, Reeves performs a hybrid of straight-ahead standards, Brazilian-inspired rhythms, pop and contemporary Black American Music.