Photo Courtesy of Tormenta Rey

The New Orleans Jazz Museum and Jazz Foundation of America present a performance featuring Tormenta Rey on Wednesday, March 8th at 2:00 PM CST.

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.

Enjoy jazz music from home with the New Orleans Jazz Museum! Join the Jazz Museum online for our daily Live-Stream Concert Series, in which jazz musicians perform live from the Jazz Museum! Tune in at 2 pm on facebook.com/nolajazzmuseum/live to watch for free.

Tormenta Rey

The 21st century duet, Tormenta Rey, tight ropes Swamp Blues and Jazz Noir. This avant-garde show hyper-activates your eyes and ears with Stephen El Rey’s songs and Leilainia (lay_lain_ya) LoveLight’s hypnotic trumpet and dance. El Rey’s vocals capture the allure of early Hollywood crooners, the vulnerability of Roy Orbison, and the raw power of Howlin’ Wolf. Like a David Lynch film, the juxtaposition between El Rey’s dark ballads and the light of Leilainia’s theatrical romance can feel familiar, but always carries with it a more complex undertow waiting to pull you in. Tormenta Rey consists of both original compositions and obscure songs from the 20’s and 30’s. Tormenta Rey can be backed by a sextet, a full New Orleans style brass band, or a string quartet.  It can also be streamlined to the powerful vocals and guitar of Stephen El Rey as a soloist.