Trumpeter Marlon Jordan at New Orleans Jazz Festival | April 24th in WWOZ Jazz Tent

Trumpeter Marlon Jordan at N.O. Jazz Fest on Friday, April 24 in WWOZ Jazz Tent

by Vincent Sylvain / SYLVAIN MUSIC NOTES

NEW
ORLEANS (3/25/09) – A must see at this year’s New Orleans Jazz &
Heritage Festival Presented by Shell (April 24-26 & April 30-May 3)
is New Orleans trumpeter Marlon Jordan. Jordan’s energized take on the
classic Miles Davis Quintet sound takes place on opening day Friday,
April 24 in the WWOZ Jazz Tent at 12:40 PM.

The 2009 Jazz Fest
celebrates 40 years of musical and cultural history at this year’s
star-studded event. The Marlon Jordan Quintet brings Marlon’s clean,
boppish lines laced with power, and an encyclopedic knowledge of the
entire jazz trumpet tradition, signed in his owned unique sonic
signature.”

Marlon Jordan was one of the “Young Jazz Lions” who
were signed, recorded and promoted on major record labels in the 1980s.
He recorded three impressive LPs for Columbia from 1988 to 1992, For
You Only, Learson’s Return, and The Undaunted, and one for the
Arabesque label entitled Marlon’s Mode in 1997.

His latest
album, Marlon Jordan featuring Stephanie Jordan; You Don’t Know What
Love Is announced the return of an exceptional trumpeter. It also
heralds the recording debut of a new singer, his sister Stephanie and
showcases an incredibly talented musical family. “Marlon’s trumpeting,
chameleon-like, assumes the colors of the music he plays …”

Just
in time for Jazz Fest, Jordan’s recent Live Concert at the at Glenwood
Springs Summer of Jazz in Colorado will broadcast during last weekend
of April on NPR’s JazzSet with Dee Dee Bridgewater.

Marlon
looks to his music for a sense of normalcy after nearly losing his life
to hurricane Katrina. Trapped on his roof for five days, a long-line
helicopter rescue mission pulled Marlon and his girlfriend to safety.
But not before he himself rescued two neighbors who were trapped in a
burning house, fracturing both his ankles in the process.

His
current project, 3 Faces of Marlon Jordan allows him to transverse
along an uncharted path; classical, jazz, and hip hop music all in a
three CD compilation.

Scheduled for a 2009 Fall release, the
classical wing of the of the album will include recordings with the
Czech Film Orchestra which boast of the best European musicians,
including principle players from the Czech Philharmonic, The Czech
National Theatre Orchestra, The Czech Radio Orchestra and others while
the Hip Hop version will include cuts from Marlon’s daughter Lori
Jordan whose stage name is Honey Chyl.