NORBERT SUSEMIHL'S NEW ORLEANS ALL STARS

Norbert Susemihl's New Orleans All Stars

The brand new international band on the European jazz scene
with a very high standard of musical quality, musicianship
and feeling for the music.

Founded in 2007 it has up to now had two highly successful
tours in Denmark. The band has also released a live CD
from one of the festival concert.

It consists of 6 handpicked musicians from 5 countries,
each representing the best on their respective instrument.
Read more about the individuals under the
musicians link above.

The All Stars repertoire consists of the whole spectrum
of what New Orleans Music is today:

- Traditional Jazz - Ragtime - Calypso - Swing -
- Funky Brassband Style -
- And the music of today's New Orleans -

A concert band, which is highly suitable to play the
stages of the major European jazz festivals.

Sumi Records CDs Recordings.

JASON MARSALIS – Drums (USA)

Born 1977 in New Orleans, Jason is the youngest member of the famous Marsalis family. By the age of six, he had his first real drum set, and was taking lessons from the legendary New Orleans drummer James Black. He has not only inherited the virtuosity and compositional skills, associated with the Marsalis family, but has also developed a distinctive, polyrhythmic drumming style. His first professional gig was with his father’s jazz groups at the age of twelve. He graduated in 1995 from the acclaimed New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts High School (NOCCA). Jason has performed with international jazz luminaries such as Joe Henderson, Lionel Hampton, and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, worked with straight-ahead combos, funk fusion bands, a Brazilian percussion ensemble, and even a Celtic group. He co-founded the wildly successful “Los Hombres Calientes”, and he joined up with the acclaimed pianist Marcus Roberts, while he studied classical percussion at Loyola University, and composition at Southern University in New Orleans. Jason Marsalis tours regularly, and most recently, he has been playing vibraphone as well. His maturity, sense of style, tastefulness and the command he possesses over his instrument, makes him one of the most versatile and swinging drummers of today.

LOUIS FORD - Clarinet – Sax (USA)
Considered an integral part of the Second New Orleans revival, Louis is a second-generation musician. His father, Clarence Ford, was a phenomenal musician whose career span three decades. He performed with many great entertainers and was considered the backbone of Fats Domino's band for over twenty years. Louis yields from an impressive legacy of musicians which can be traced back to the Storyville days. Louis is an accomplished clarinettist and saxophonist and truly dedicated to the preservation of jazz. Born and raised in New Orleans, Louis studied under Professor Kidd Jordan of Southern University in Music Performance. He graduated from Loyola University with a degree in music education which he has built on to create a unique sound that is all his own.
NORBERT SUSEMIHL – Trumpet - Flügelhorn – Vocal (D)

Born 1956 in Hamburg Germany, he began to play the trumpet at the age of 15. In 1978 and 1979 he made his first trips to New Orleans. In 1980 he became a member of the „New Orleans Musicians Union“ and he lived there for a year to study New Orleans Jazz and the lifestyle and culture that made and shaped this music. For the following 10 years, Norbert spent several months each year in New Orleans and played regularly with almost all of the local musicians, from the older traditional musicians to the younger generation players, covering all styles of New Orleans Music. He has also made recordings in New Orleans with veterans like Willie Humphrey, Father Al Lewis, and CoCoMo Joe. Besides playing with his own bands, Norbert is also regularly touring as a guest with different bands in Europe, performing on many festivals the continent over. He is considered today as one of the leading trumpeters in the New Orleans style.

FREDDIE JOHN – Trombone – (Sweden)
Born in 1949 in Stockholm/Sweden, Freddie began already at the age of 11 to play trombone. As teenager he became interested in New Orleans Jazz, which developed into a passion that lasts to this day. After an extended stay in New Orleans from 1969-1970 he started to perform with many different European jazz bands. Freddy toured through all of Europe and the USA with many well known musicians from New Orleans. Besides all these New Orleans greats, Freddie has during his long career also performed with
Swing-, R&B- and Reggae bands. He is definitely the most outstanding European trombonist in the New Orleans style.
HUGO RASMUSSEN – bass (DK)

He is a Danish music icon. Hugo has been a professional musician for over 40 years and with his infectious musicality and personality, he has been driving an immense amount of artists such as Ben Webster, Dexter Gordon, Coleman Hawkins, Don Cherry, Roland Kirk, to name but a few. For a number of years he was also a member of "New Jungle Orchestra" and "Musikorkesteret". Hugo has recorded a wealth of classic jazz records and played with everything that can climb and go inside jazz. He has played on countless jazz festivals around the world, and on TV productions. He also leads his own band, the “Hugo Rasmussen All-Stars”.

HARRY KANTERS – piano (NL)
Harry Kanters masters a repertoire, ranging from Ragtime and Harlem-Stride, to Swing and early Bebop. Harry has played with many jazz greats, among them Benny Waters, Doc Cheatham, and Slim Gaillard. In great demand as soloist with New Orleans, Swing and Mainstream bands, he is often invited for national and international jazz festivals, e.g. Ascona (CH) and Kobe (Japan) and has also performed in Qatar, Oman, California, Pennsylvania, Louisiana, Florida, Switzerland, Germany, France, Hungary and of course the Benelux. In the last few years he also became an arranger at many CD-recording sessions. Although very active as a freelancer, Harry has been a regular member of several famous Dutch jazz formations.