Woody Allen & His New Orleans Jazz Band
By: Beau Higgins Dec. 20, 2006
WOODY ALLEN
IN CONCERT WITH HIS
NEW ORLEANS JAZZ BAND AT MIAMI'S NEW
CARNIVAL CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTSAllen's first U.S. multi-city tour stops in Miami on December 29, 8p.m. Woody Allen and his New Orleans Jazz Band, part of the Carnival Center-Chivas Regal Jazz Series, will perform in Miami's Carnival Center for the Performing Arts for one night only on Friday, December 29, at 8 p.m. in the Center's magnificent Knight Concert Hall.
For more than 35 years, filmmaker and clarinet player Woody Allen and his New Orleans Jazz Band have been delighting audiences in New York City with a hot mix of New Orleans-inspired music and will make a special stop on their first multi-city tour around the United States to perform for fans in Miami. The band's sound is firmly rooted in the music that Woody Allen has loved since his childhood and draws inspiration from such legendary artists as Sidney Bechet, George Lewis, Johnny Dodds, Jimmie Noone and, of course, Louis Armstrong.
Beginning as informal jam sessions and then becoming regular concerts every Monday night, the band has performed for thousands of New Yorkers and visitors from all over the world. For the last decade, the group has been regularly playing once a week at the Manhattan landmark hotel, The Carlyle. Allen even missed accepting an Academy Award for Annie Hall so as not to miss his Monday night gig. In 1996, the band embarked on its first tour of Europe and was chronicled in the documentary film Wild Man Blues and subsequent compact disc titled under the same. Since then, the band has returned to Europe on numerous occasions, most recently performing in Greece and Turkey. An accomplished clarinet player, Allen says of performing live: "There's nothing there between you and the pure feeling of playing. There's no cerebral part to it."
The New Orleans Jazz Band includes musical director Eddy Davis on the banjo; Conal Fowkes on piano; Simon Wettenhall on trumpet; Jerry Zigmont on trombone, Greg Cohen on bass, and John Gill on drums.
Tickets are $15-95 and are available online at
http://www.carnival center.org or (305) 949-6722.
For group tickets (20 or more), contact (786) 468-2326.
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