Germaine Bazzle: Great Singer and Revered Teacher

Germaine Bazzle: Great Singer and Revered Teacher

January 22, 2013Posted inBusiness, City News, Jazz, Music, R&B, Sports, Tech
<!-- end jp-progress --><!-- end jp-controls -->Listen<!-- playpause --><!-- jp-time-holder -->An interview with vocalist and educator Germaine Bazzle. Germaine Bazzle is one of New Orleans' most accomplished musicians — a musician whose instrument of choice is her voice. She has also exercised a profound effect on youngsters in Southeast Louisiana as a teacher, through a dozen years in Thibodeaux and an even longer tenure at Xavier Prep in New Orleans.Germaine Bazzle recently sat down with WWNO's Fred Kasten for the "Talkin' Jazz" interview series at the Old U.S. Mint, and talked about some of her musical influences and the place that teaching has occupied in her life.This interview with Germaine Bazzle was made possible in part thanks to support from the New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park, which presents the live interview series "Talkin' Jazz with Fred Kasten" on the last Friday afternoon of each month at 2 p.m. in the third floor auditorium at the Old U.S. Mint.

BP Oil Spill Conference Underway in New Orleans

January 22, 2013Posted inBusiness, City News, Jazz, Music, R&B, Sports, T.V., Tech, Travel
<!-- end jp-progress --><!-- end jp-controls -->Listen<!-- playpause --><!-- jp-time-holder -->Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative conference. Some of the world’s leading scientists and academics are in New Orleans this week to review research under way into the effects of the BP oil spill. It’s the first year of a 10-year review.The conference is sponsored by the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative. BP is underwriting the $500 million-dollar grant program, which will look at the effects of the oil on people, as well as the Gulf ecosystem and coastline.The chairwoman of the initiative says that so far, research has found that oil did not travel out of the Gulf — as some feared in the early aftermath of the 2010 spill. And she says naturally occurring micro-organisms broke up much of the oil, little of which settled into oysters or their shells.A public session is planned tonight that features a member of the commission formed by the White House, and a chief scientist from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration during the spill.