Doreen's Jazz New Orleans sponsored by Jazz at Lincoln Center and The US Department of State. Doreen's Jazz New Orleans has more than 25 albums and five CDs that they record and sell through the private DJNO Records label. Doreen's Jazz New Orleans Doreen's Jazz New Orleans is a Dixieland and Traditional Jazz band run by one of the few female band leaders in New Orleans, clarinetist Doreen Ketchens. The group has toured the world, and performs in the Royal Street Performing Arts zone in the French Quarter of New Orleans, at jazz festivals, fairs, showcases, and concert halls. Videos of the group by
1940s in jazz leading ensemble. Through the 1950s and 1960s, Dixieland was one of the most commercially popular jazz styles in the US, Europe, and Japan, although critics paid little attention to it. By the end of the 1940s, the nervous energy and tension of bebop was replaced with a tendency towards calm and smoothness, with the sounds of cool jazz, which favoured long, linear melodic lines. It emerged in New York City, as a result of the mixture of the styles of predominantly white jazz musicians and black bebop musicians, and it dominated jazz in the first half of the 1950s. The