For our friends in NYC:

Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. in Lincoln Center’s Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse, Terence Blanchard, Dr. Ike from the Ponderosa Stomp, and journalist Larry Blumenfeld will speak on a panel titled, “Do You Know What it Means to Miss New Orleans?” The show’s hype says, “Top players in the New Orleans music scene discuss the fight to preserve art and culture in the wake of Hurricane
Katrina,” but unless Larry and Ira have been hiding their talents from me, Blanchard will be the lone musician on the bill. Still, the Ponderosa Stomp Foundation has been actively trying to do exactly what the hype promises, and I’ve been on panels with Larry, whose writing from the last few years has largely documented the challenge of making music and keeping the brass culture alive in New Orleans after Katrina.

Afterward, the musician – Blanchard – will perform with his Quartet.

For tickets, click here. Jazz Promo Services subscribers can get a   25 percent discount by using code WSJ10 at check-out. Subscriber or not, you might as well try it.