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Stephanie Jordan Big Band: Featuring Stephanie Jordan performing a short segment of her "Tribute to Lena Horne" show at the Bayou Bogaloo Festival in New Orleans. Stephanie Jordan opened with a medley which included; On A Clear Day, I'm Beginning to See the Light, and Come Fly With Me.

The New Orleans Ladies of Jazz; Stephanie Jordan, Germaine Bazzle, Leah Chase provided music lovers an opportunity to enjoy some of New Orleans most renowned jazz divas performing traditional jazz standards from the era of the Big Band sound.

Stephanie Jordan, whom critics have placed in the company of Nancy Wilson and Diana Krall, began to receive noted prominence following the national televised Jazz at Lincoln Center Higher Ground Hurricane Relief Benefit Concert for victims of Hurricane Katrina.

Jordan's recent concert with the Chicago Jazz Ensemble at the Harris Theater led Chicago Tribune's leading art critic Howard Reich to proclaim, "The woman can sing and indisputably knows how to reach out across the footlights . . . Jordan showed ample voice, bringing heft to music of the Gershwins and Cole Porter without pushing volume levels. Clearly she values plush sound and knows how to produce it."

Stephanie Jordan performed at the private celebration 'Oprah Winfrey and Friends of Susan Taylor' at New York City's ESPACE in honor of Susan Taylor's 37 years of service to Essence magazine. She also sang the national anthem alongside Grammy Award winning saxophonist Branford Marsalis and guitarist Jonathan Dubose at the 2008 NBA All- Star Game in New Orleans. She has appeared live on NPR's Talk of the Nation, Jazz at Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, Marians Jazzroom in Bern Switzerland, St Croix Blue Bay Jazz Fest, Manship Theatre in Baton Rouge, Duke Ellington Festival, Washington D.C., Chicago JazzFest Heritage, Glenwood Springs, Co., Adagio's Jazz Club in Savannah, Hayti Heritage Center in Durham, Sweet Lorraine's in New Orleans, and the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. Stephanie has been inducted as a member of the New Orleans Magazine Jazz All-Stars and has served as a 'Jazz Ambassadors' for the U.S. Department of State.

The Stephanie Jordan Big Band included Emmy Award-winning arranger Mike Esneault on Piano; and horn section and rhythm section made up of some of New Orleans' greatest talent; Marlon Jordan, Bobby Campo, Blake Daniels Roderick Paulen, Clarence Johnson, BJ McGibney, Chris Severin, John Jones, and Don Vappie.

Video & Photography by J.R. Thomason