Mr. Clyde Kerr Jr.

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  Earlier this year, at 66, Clyde Kerr Jr. released his first CD of original compositions. "The opportunity was there, because the Jazz Foundation of America was helping New Orleans musicians after the storm, " he says. Michael DeMocker / The Times-Picayune Legendary music teacher and trumpet player Clyde Kerr, Jr. on the porch of his Mid-City home.

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  Even before graduating from New Orleans' Warren Easton High School, Rose was refining his skills at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA) and jamming with the likes of Clyde Kerr, who headed the jazz program at the NOCCA, and Nicholas Payton, winner of the 1997 Grammy for Best Jazz Instrumental Solo.

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  Longtime music teacher, artist and trumpet player Clyde Kerr Jr. puts his life onto his first original CD 6:32 AMSources:NOLA.com - New Orleans LA
  
  Earlier this year, at 66, Clyde Kerr Jr. released his first CD of original compositions. "The opportunity was there, because the Jazz Foundation of America was helping New Orleans musicians after the storm, " he says. Michael DeMocker / The Times-Picayune Legendary music teacher and trumpet player Clyde Kerr, Jr. on the porch of his Mid-City home.

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  Clyde Kerr Jr.
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  Kerr is the jazz studies director at the New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts (NOCCA), but he's an artist as well as educator, and his annual Jazz Fest shows are a chance to hear an underrecognized master in his hometown.

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  Jazz trumpeter and longtime New Orleans Center for Creative Arts instructor Clyde Kerr Jr. received an honorary lifetime achievement award for music education.Clarence "Frogman" Henry, whose "Ain't Got No Home" is one of the most enduring anthems from the golden age of New Orleans rhythm and blues, received the WWOZ-FM Living Legend award.

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  CS: Clyde Kerr.He was the Trumpet instructor at NOCCA.

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  I arrive just in time to hear Clyde Kerr, Jr. and his quintet finish up a spirit-filled set that stretched the imagination of all but the most ardent fans of free jazz.Mr. Kerr is a local educator and performer who has left his mark on the world of jazz as an instructor at the renowned New Orleans Center for the Creative e Arts (NOCCA).
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  Accompanied by the next generation, Mr. Kerr's performances always gives a glimpse of what the future holds for New Orleans modern jazz.
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  As Bonerama kicks off their set, the crowd is standing room only and the remnants of any breeze left with Clyde Kerr.

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  Published on: 6/11/2003    Last Visited: 6/13/2004  

  To celebrate the rich culture and heritage of New Orleans, resident conductor Clyde Kerr Jr. will conduct Duke Ellington's legendary "New Orleans Suite."

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  Scott credits much of his jazz training to Donald Jr. and NOCCA teachers Clyde Kerr and Kent Jordan.

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  Published on: 3/14/2003    Last Visited: 3/14/2003  

  As the Mississippi River rolled by and the amber lights of the Crescent City Connection sparkled through the windows, conductor Clyde Kerr Jr. guided the musicians in a modern jazz retelling of the Fats Domino classic.Kerr's father, the late Clyde Kerr Sr., wrote this arrangement, reimagining the R&B standard for a jazz orchestra.The familiar melody surfaces only occasionally, then is submerged again in a glorious torrent of saxophones, trumpets, trombones and percussion.
  
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  "Blueberry Hill," like many of the senior Kerr's compositions and arrangements, has gone unrecorded and even unperformed, as no local body existed to play it.

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