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Music Alive at Jazz Museum Marlon Jordan Plays Harlem Renaissance 2018
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Music Alive Ensemble returns with New Orleans Jazz Matriarch Germaine Bazzle and Gospel Sensation Cynthia Liggins-Thomas at UNO 2017
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Music Alive Featuring Jai Reed New Orleans Ladies of Jazz 2017 at UNO
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Featuring - Germaine Bazzle, Leah Chase ,Stephanie Jordan
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2008 Featured Works:
John Coltrane Love Supreme

Bartok String Quartet No. 3
Mike Esnault Creole Dance for Conga and Strings
Dvorak Going Home 

Guest Artists:
Ivana Radakovich – Cello Orchestra Di Sevilla
Kidd Jordan – Saxophone
Alvin Fielder – Drums
Peter Harris – Bass
Brian Quezerque – Bass
John Jones – Drums
Suzanne LeFevre – Viola Houston Grand Opera 

Guest Composer:
Mike Esnault


In 2001 Music Alive Ensemble (MAE) formed a partnership withThe New Orleans Chapter of the Links, Inc. and The University of New Orleans. MAE presented the following concerts at the UNO Performing Arts Center with funding from the Links from 2001-2005.
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2005 Featured works:
The works of Brazil, Argentina and Spain included Dancers and musicians performing representative works of each country.
Guest Artists:
Artist Karen Johnson – Voice
Featured Guest Arranger:
Darrell Lavigne – Piano  
Featured Guest Artists:
Geraardo Perez – Bandoneon
Maria Calvalcanti – Piano
Adonis Rose – Drums
Jonathan Bloom – Percussion
Dancers:
Silvia Santos – Samba
Milena Rossi – Samba
Zabrina Jordan – Flamenco
Mia Zebouni – Flamenco
Rafael Jarpa – Tango
Christina Ve – Tango 
2004 Featured works: Concert was dedicated to New Orleans Pianist, Composer and Conductor Moses Hogan and featured New Orleanian Bass Baritone Alfred Walker Hogan arrangements were expanded for the octet.  Alfred Walker was discovered by Hogan and was a member of the Moses Hogan Chorale. Stephanie Jordan was featured on the second half of the program singing jazz standards with the octet. 
Guest Composer:  
Alvin Batiste – Clarinet/Jazz Educator 
  Guest Artists: 
Alfred Walker Bass Baritone Metropolitan Opera 
David Rosen – Cello 
Allen Nisbit – Cello 
John Law – Violin 
Scott Slapin – Viola 
Tonya Solomon – Viola    
Dane Evans – Piano 
Sullivan Fortner – Piano 
Brian Quezerque – Bass 
Troy Davis – Drum


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2003 Featured works: 
Quiet City, Aaron Copland Original Compositions for Trombone 
and Strings by Steve Sutter 
Guest Artists: 
Rodney Mack – Principal Trumpeter, Virginia Symphony/ Philadelphia Chamber Orchestra 
Steve Sutter – Trombonist LA Philharmonic/Bonerama 
Karyn Walryn – Pianist/Educator 
  Allen Nisbet – Cellist 
Helen Herb English – Horn 
Rodney Mack – Trumpet 
 Featured Guest Composer & Arranger: 
Steve Sutter

​2002 
Featured work: 
Brahms Clarinet Quintet
Jet Whistle for flute and cello
 Villa-Lobos
Lullaby and Fugue Earl Stewart
​Quartet in A Minor Schubert 

Guest Artists: 
Troy Stewart – Cello 
Terrence Patterson – Clarinet 
Lena Frankhausen – Viola 
Jonathan Gerhardt – Cello 
 Marlon Jordan – Trumpet  
Amy Thiaville- Violin
Rachel Jordan -Violin    
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2001 Featured work: 
Brahms Piano Quintet 
Jet Whistle -Villa-Lobos
Lullaby and Fugue Earl Stewart
​Quartet in A Minor Schubert

Guest Artists:
Sandra Rivers – Pianist 
Owen Young – Cellist Boston Symphony 
Amadi Hummings – Viola
Rachel Jordan-Violin
Amy Thiaville-Violin

Due to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and personal injury of Artistic Director Rachel Jordan, The Music Alive Ensemble did not present programs during 2006 and 2007. In 2008 MAE  returned to the UNO Performing Arts Center with partial funding from The Jazz & Heritage Foundation.

About us

The Music Alive Ensemble was founded in May 1999 with a concert at Dillard University honoring the contributions of New Orleans classical pianist Jessie Covington Dent. Dent, a New Orleans native, won acclaim as a concert pianist. She studied at Oberlin College and Julliard Foundation which later became Julliard School of Music.​

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