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Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans

One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer// with Julien Brunetaud, Jerome Etcheberry & Co...

Jazz: An International Language
Featuring Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, David Spears, and Albert McCarthy, moderated by Ralph J. Gleason.

This event took place on Saturday, October 4, 1958 at 12:30pm in the Education Building at the Monterey County Fairgrounds during the inaugural Monterey Jazz Festival.

Jazz: An International Language with Dizzy Gillespie and Louis Armstrong (1958)

Santa Cruz Voice's Mike Jacobi interviews Monterey Jazz Managing Director Bobbie Young on Raising the Standards on August 23, 2025 about the 68th Monterey Jazz Festival, September 26-28. 

This originally streamed on https://raisingthestandardsscv.podbean.com/e/episode-889-monterey-jazz-festival-with-guest-managing-director-bobbie-young/

Santa Cruz Voice Interview with Bobbie Young, August 23, 2025

New Orleans Jazz Vipers - Blue Drag

Jazz vocalist Jayna Morgan knows how to light up a room and charm an audience. Her singing style invites listeners of every age to remember the days when jazz was king. Her choice of songs and brilliant renditions of standards make her shows refreshing and classy. Combine this with her divine appearance onstage and welcoming demeanor, which creates a uniquely personal entertaining experience, for both large and more intimate audiences. Perhaps her greatest feature, however, is her New Orleans style, bringing the listener back to the bayous of Louisiana she calls home. Her shows are fun, sultry, old-fashioned, sexy, and sometimes silly; a musical journey to the Crescent City.

"Why Don't You Go Down to New Orleans" by Jayna Morgan and the Sazerac Sunrise Jazz Band

HOPPIN' MAD - Featuring Dan Barrett, Clint Baker, Evan Arntzen, Simon Stribling, Josh Roberts, Georgia Korba and Lauri Lyster

01 Eccentric

In early 2005, NOLA Jazz singer JAYNA MORGAN and former dance partner Michael Norris formed NOLA SWING, an organization that promoted the teaching and love of swing dancing in New Orleans. After Hurricane Katrina, Michael moved away; however, Jayna stayed and has been blessed to work under the artistic direction of international instructor and world champion Nathalie Gomes. In addition, Jayna and her friend Ellen Boyer formed the professional Charleston dance troupe, The Frenchmen Street Flappers, and can be seen performing around town.

"Why Don't You Go Down to New Orleans" by Jayna Morgan and the Sazerac Sunrise Jazz Band

Jayna Morgan

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