The New Orleans Jazz Museum and Jazz Foundation of America present a performance featuring Wes “Warmdaddy” Anderson Quintet with Ed Perkins on vocals on Wednesday, November 8th at 2:00 PM CDT.

This program takes place inside our third floor Performance Center, listening room. Admission is free and open to the public, seating is limited and offered first come, first serve.

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Ed Perkins

Ed Perkins is a celebrated jazz singer, musician, and a native New Orleanian. For over 50 years, he has performed both locally and around the world, collaborating with renowned musicians like Alvin Batiste and Wes “Warm Daddy” Anderson. Ed has performed at Carnegie Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City, and numerous festivals and events across the country. He is a regular at the Zulu Lundi Gras Festival in New Orleans and has participated in several Jazz & Heritage Festivals. He was first introduced to the trumpet in third grade by the late Professor Peter Davis, who also gave Louis Armstrong his first trumpet. From there, he branched out to the violin and began singing in the school choir. His affection for jazz has been at the center of his life, reflected in three well-received albums with the Ed Perkins Quartet. Most recently, he also provided the vocals for the Branford Marsalis produced album Marsalis Music Honors Series presents Alvin Batiste which featured guitarist Russell Malone and drummer Herlin Riley.  

Wes “Warmdaddy” Anderson

Alto saxophonist Wessel "Warmdaddy" Anderson grew up in the tough Bedford Stuyvesent and Crown Heights neighborhoods of Brooklyn, NY. By the time Anderson was 14 years old, he was deeply involved in the local jazz scene (thanks in part to his father, a drummer) and attending jam sessions at then-active Brooklyn and Queens jazz clubs like the Blue Coronet, Pumpkin's, and the Turbo Village.

Anderson later studied at Harlem's famed Jazzmobile workshops with the likes of Frank Wess, Charles Davis, and Frank Foster. Here, Anderson also met Wynton and Branford Marsalis, who were both playing with Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers at the time. At Branford's urging, Anderson soon departed New York to study with famed clarinetist Alvin Batiste at Southern University in Baton Rouge, LA.

It wasn't long before Anderson got his first big break, when Wynton Marsalis asked Anderson to tour with the Wynton Marsalis Septet. Soon, Anderson was off to the studio and the road with Marsalis, helping make some of the most defining music of the late-'80s and early-'90s jazz revival. It was during his time with Marsalis' group that Anderson began to develop his own sound: a mix of traditional New Orleans jazz (likely Batiste's influence) and a sweeping blues style similar to that of Cannonball Adderly. Anderson's 1994 debut album, Warmdaddy In the Garden of Swing (Atlantic Records), featured Anderson playing a set of all original compositions with big-name sidemen like pianist Eric Reed and bassist Ben Wolfe. In 2009 Wessell Anderson released the critically acclaimed album “ Warm It Up, Warmdaddy!” on Nu Jazz Records.

Warmdaddy is currently working on his new release "Warmdaddy plays Ball", featuring the music of Cannonball Adderly, due out in early 2013.