Jazz @ Linc Ctr Orch (JLCO)-Kings of the Crescent City

Jazz @ Linc Ctr performed the music of the masters, four of the founding fathers of jazz:  Louis Armstrong, Sidney Bechet, Jelly Roll Morton & Joe "King" Oliver.  Adonis Jones, drummer for the JLCO, and native of New Orleans says "Being from New Orlenas is more like being from Brazil or Cuba or different countries in Africa than like being from any other place in America."  Hearing the JLCO takes you around the world and back with the truly original and diverse American art form, jazz.  Last night we were treated to the heart & home of jazz with blues, stomp, rag, riff & call-and-response leaving the sold out Rose room stomping & calling for more.   New Orleans native, Victor Goines, led the jazz octet while playing both tenor & soprano sax.  Goines said they had a lot of jazz to play and kept talk to a minimum.  The repertoire was from the Crescent City born genuises whose work has laid the foundation for jazz.  The evening began & ended with Armstrong's music.  There is humor along with Armstrong's genuis; "I'll be Glad When You're Dad, You Rascal You,"and "The King of the Zulus."  The piano player, Dan Nimmer, from the "2nd city of jazz, Milwaukee," is an amazing jazz pianist whose virtuosity was manifested in Jelly Roll Morton's "Black Bottom Stomp," & "Shoe Shiner's Drag."  Don Vappie, another son of New Orleans, was the guest artist performing on banjo & guitar.  Vappie also added pleasing vocals to music by Morton & Bechet's "I Want You Tonight."  The entire program was a tribute to the roots of jazz and its current musical interpretations.  JLCO paid tribute to the Kings of Crescent City & all their subjects were treated to a royal evening.