NOV

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.