Victor Goines: Music of New Orleans

If America's greatest contribution to world culture is its music, then no exploration of our country is complete without a trip to New Orleans. There, over the last 120 years, African, Caribbean, Spanish, European classical, and a host of other musical traditions fused and evolved into jazz, blues, rock, and R & B—the world's popular music. Who better to teach us about the city's pivotal role in American history than the Big Easy's favorite son, world-class reed player, head of Northwestern University's venerated jazz program, and CHF favorite Victor Goines? Clarinet in hand, Goines takes us through the playing of Buddy Bolden, Sidney Bechet, and Louis Armstrong, the "Spanish Tinge" of Jelly Roll Morton, the "second line tradition," the Afro-Cuban-blues fusion of Professor Longhair, and much, much more.

Clarinetist, saxophonist, and educator Victor L. Goines has been a member of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and the Wynton Marsalis Septet since 1993. He is also an acclaimed solo artist and a gifted composer as well, with more than 50 original works to his credit. Since 2007,Goines has been director of jazz studies and professor of music at Northwestern University. Prior to that appointment he was artistic director of the jazz program at the Juilliard School and a faculty member in jazz clarinet and saxophone.