jazz, new orleans style


Award-winning documentary filmmaker Ken Burns has said that in trying to make the years of the early 20th century come alive in his films, he discovered that jazz music – what he describes as the “soundtrack of America” during those decades – did the trick. “Using jazz music to illustrate the 20s, the 30s, the 40s and the 50s drew me to jazz,” he recalls. “I had to know something about it. And as I learned more about it, I wanted to make a film about it.”


The journey of discovery that resulted in Ken Burns’s Jazz has inspired a one-of-a-kind travel experience crafted by Ken Burns and Tauck to celebrate this uniquely American music in the uniquely American city in which it was born. The Tauck Jazz Event brings guests together in the birthplace of jazz – New Orleans, Louisiana – for five extraordinary days of live musical performances, themed sightseeing and exclusive experiences... including a personal appearance by Ken Burns himself... in October, 2011.


Limited to 300 like-minded guests, this once-in-a-lifetime experience brings to life the stories, personalities, events and influences that have shaped – and continue to shape – the music we know as jazz in all its many forms and flavors, through three themed sightseeing tracks encompassing The Roots of Jazz, Jazz in the Quarter, and Jazz & the Story of Survival Today. You’ll visit some of the places in New Orleans that played a role in that creation in the French Quarter and throughout the city, from Basin Street and Preservation Hall to Tremé. You’ll explore jazz archives, museums and historic sites with insights from musicians, scholars and historians... as well as from master storyteller Ken Burns himself, in a keynote address at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts.


But most importantly of all, you’ll enjoy exclusive opportunities to hear the music in all its glory – in private performances by jazz notables from pianist Ellis Marsalis, patriarch of America’s “First Family of Jazz,” to the Dukes of Dixieland – in venues ranging from Preservation Hall to a steamboat on the Mississippi River. And we can think of no better way to celebrate – and truly connect with – this homegrown and totally American art form... jazz.


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