Looking forward to New Orleans and more; looking back

Joya Wesley
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Next on Fred's itinerary are dates in in the Southeast United States, including his long-awaited appearance at the venerable New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival with his New JBs on April 30. Catch the band's set at 5:45pm in the WWOZ Jazz Tent, and the oral history interview with DJ Soul Sister on the Allison Miner Music Heritage stage at 3:45pm. Click here for tickets and more information. Also catch him April 29 at Snug Harbor as a special guest of Delfeayo Marsalis' Uptown Jazz Orchestra. Click here for tickets.

On Jazz Fest Tuesday, April 28, Fred will host the HAPPY Meal Experience, a special community dinner celebrating the whole food plant-based lifestyle he adopted in 2021 to take back his life and career. Click here for tickets and more information.

On his way to New Orleans you can catch him on Hilton Head Island at Kind of Blue on April 26, and at Augusta University working with students of fellow trombonist Wycliffe Gordon on April 27.

Looking back, Fred is grateful for a successful run at London's Ronnie Scott's in January with his New JBs, at Seattle's Jazz Alley in February with Martha High's Funky Divas, and a fun Europe tour that concluded in March with his Generations Trio. Enjoy these photos.