New Orleans/Kansas City, 2023

In March of 2023 the SMSU Jazz Ensemble traveled to Kansas City, Missouri and New Orleans, Louisiana for a 7 day tour of these cradles of Jazz. The tour included a jam session at the Blue Room in Kansas City as well as the American Jazz Museum and the National World War I Museum and Memorial. The tour continued in New Orleans with a exploration of the French Quarter, a trip to Mardi Gras World and the New Orleans Jazz Museum, a dinner cruise on the Steamboat Natchez, an evening of music at Fritzel's Jazz Club, and a clinic and performance at the Jazz Kitchen.

Two jazz students at a learning station at the American Jazz Museum Jazz students enjoying an evening of performances at the Blue Room in Kansas City.

Jazz Students posing outside of the American Blues Museum in Kansas City street image from18th and Vine in Kansas City. A painting of a saxophonist.

Some jazz ensemble members posing outside the World War 1 Museum in Kansas City, Missouri. Several jazz ensemble members posing on stage at the Blue Room in Kansas City, Missouri

Members of the jazz band at Mardi Gras World in New Orleans, posing in front of a figure of the genie from Disney's Aladdin. Jazz Ensemble members walking down Bourbon Street.

at Fritzel's Jazz Club Some members of the Jazz Ensemble on the deck of Steamboat Natchez.

Jazz Ensemble at the Jazz Kitchen

New Orleans skyline from the steamboat deck.

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