Jazz/Blues
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New Orleans Legends the Preservation Hall Jazz Band Celebrated With 50th Anniversary Box Set
Fifty years after a former art gallery on St. Peter Street became a haven and platform for the surviving musicians who made New Orleans the birthplace of jazz, "The Preservation Hall 50th Anniversary Collection" box set celebrates their contributions. This deluxe 4-CD, 58-track collection will be available September 25 through Legacy Recordings, a division of Sony Music Entertainment. Students from the Ages of 17 to 70 Graduate with Professional Recording Sessions from Bloom School of Jazz
Nine vocal students have just graduated from the Bloom School of Jazz's Perfect Set Recording Project, and as culmination of the year-long class, each of the singers has emerged from a professional recording session with an eight- to ten-song master recording. Perfect Set Recording Project students also took the stage at Chicago's Mayne Stage for a showcase performance on January 8, 2012. A documentary film project is in the works.
