Doreen's Jazz New Orleans

We are Doreen's Jazz New Orleans, "The Show Stealers" Our show stopping performances at private engagements and music festivals all over the United States, Canada, Europe South America, Africa and Asia have given us this name. We are experienced at putting on shows that make the audience go crazy with excitement, while displaying professionalism that will leave even the strictest critic in awe. It is almost impossible to sit through a performance of Doreen’s Jazz without moving in your seat, shouting or tapping your feet. We have grown through the years by word of mouth, newspapers, radio and television appearances such as VH1, MTV, BET, A&E, CBS, NBC, ABC, PBS, CNN - international, The Travel Channel, Food Network, Southern Living Magazine, Cops, as well as major appearances on English, French, German, Danish, Swiss, Taiwanese, Korean and Japanese Television and Radio to name a few; Doreen’s Jazz has also appeared in television commercials: Fresca USA, Hardee's and Easy Spirit Shoes, which demonstrate the many levels of music and excitement we can create. We have appeared in numerous books and magazines as well as newspapers all over the world. On an average we perform in fifteen states and seven countries annually.

We are a group whose interest lies in spreading the culture and traditional music of New Orleans all over the world through performance and education. Our most recent union with Jazz At Lincoln Center and the US Department of State has enabled us to educate and perform for people in places we had only dreamed about in the past. We pride ourselves on our exceptional musicians. Our Tuba player Mr. Lawrence H. Ketchens' talents for playing his Tuba, arranging and producing music, has made him a powerful soloist and educator as well as a great bass-man. He is also a dynamo on the valve trombone and piano. He has played and recorded with such Jazz greats as Pete Fountain, Danny Barker, Teddy Riley, Dorothy Donagan, Tuba Fats and Al Hirt among others. Our leader Mrs. Doreen Ketchens has been called "The Queen of Jazz", "The Female Louis Armstrong", "Queen Clarinet" and "Miss Satchmo" in places she has performed. Even people who haven’t heard her called these names refer to her in this way after hearing and seeing what she does on stage. Doreen is a rising star whose brilliance shines forth from the purest, most profound and living sources of New Orleans Jazz. Doreen also demonstrates her musical versatility by performing with old and new well known jazz musicians and Rock Stars. She has played and or recorded with Ellis Marsalis, Al Hirt, Danny Barker, Dorothy Donagan, Tuba Fats, Kermit Ruffins and The Black Crows to name a few.

Doreen's Jazz New Orleans has represented New Orleans and America on several important International occasions such as performances for World's Fairs, Presidential Conventions, and performances for foreign Ambassadors and Dignitaries. We have also performed for four United States Presidents: Clinton, Bush Sr., Reagan and this is the band that had Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter dancing in the isles singing "Aye Now", during a Jazz Festival performance While touring with the late and great Al Hirt, he would frequently come on stage and say." "I knew they would steal the show."

Doreen's Jazz New Orleans not only performs for their audiences, but we also educate by incorporating lots of audience participation. If your audience is not familiar with popular New Orleans phrases such as: Jazz Funeral, Second Line, Iko, Iko! and Lagniappe; they will have a great understanding after just one performing experience of Doreen's Jazz. We will even have your audience scatting while they’re singing along. We have successfully performed for people of all ages who speak many languages. We have thrilled and entertained millions of people from all over the world, who still remember us through cards, letters, pictures and emails as being one of the highlights of their festivities, vacations and conventions. Our recordings, Volume I through XVII along with two DVD’s, have enabled fans from all over the world to bring Doreen's Jazz New Orleans into their homes to play their favorite songs all night long.

Please consider our "spicy" New Orleans flavor of music for your next engagement. You'll be glad you did. Thank you and we hope to hear from you soon.

To Contact Doreen's Jazz New Orleans,
or to order a CD (please send check for $15 + $3 s&h, per CD,
and a include a note indicating which CDs you are ordering):

Doreen's Jazz New Orleans
P.O. Box 2452
Marrero, LA 70073
or e-mail us, at doreenja@bellsouth.net

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