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Please find below the 4-Pager that went to concert-goers at the 'Honoring the Kidd' show for Edward Kidd Jordan at the New Orleans Jazz Museum on November 1, 2019.
Every seat in the NOJM's Mint Theater was filled that night. The
audience's responses were very warm. They came to appreciate and
enjoy Kidd. They converged toward the stage after the show. They took home 143 of the 4-Pagers.
The performers were inspired beyond their usual excellence. You'll see their names on the poster above and below. How much collective improvisation, how many great solos, how many good jokes and lit-up smiles came out in the show we'll continue to share.
Stephanie Jordan read poems by William and Patricia Nicholson
Parker about Kidd. TR Johnson read his lyrical evocation. Others' appreciations were read aloud in the concert. You can read their full
text and more on the page-in-progress here.
Thanks to all! Thanks to Randy Fertel and anonymous funders! Thanks to volunteers! Thanks especially to Maryse Philippe Déjean!

The Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong Summer Jazz Camp in New Orleans has taught hundreds of students over 24 years. Jackie Harris founded the Camp in 1995. Among its alumni are Gregory Agid, Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews, Jonathan Batiste, Dr. Courtney Bryan, Christan Scott aTundé Adjuah, and "Big Sam" Williams. Read more about the Camp and its also illustrious instructors and intentions here.

Appreciations of Kidd poured in, this past week. Please see some of them below. William and Patricia Nicholson Parker, Dutch Kepler, Randy Fertel, Darrel Lavigne, Cyril Neville, Larry Blumenfel, TR Johnson, and Jackie Harris are represented on the 4-pager. Full text of the excerpted statements can be found on the Appreciations page. There too will be pieces by Rob Cambrie, Hamid Drake, Roger Lewis, Benjamin Lyons, and Melissa Gregory Rue.

On the back-cover are Jonathan Batiste as he talks about how Kidd "opened" his mind to possibilties for music when Jon was an 11-year-old at the Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong Summer Jazz Camp'--and Kidd with fellow saxophonist Fred Anderson--and albums from Centering Music and Valid Records--and a nola.com photo of Kidd with the four professional musicians among the seven children raised by him and his wife, a classical pianist, Dr. Edvidge Chatters Jordan: Kent, Marlon, Rachel and Stephanie.
Links to much on this page are listed below. One is to the wide-ranging Improv Conference New Orleans that's hosted by Randy Fertel between Nov. 3 and Nov. 10. Another is to the brilliant Freedom Sandals created by Sticking Up For Children's partner students in Haiti.
