The New Orleans Jazz Museum and Jazz Foundation of America present a performance featuring Mari Watanabe & Her Chosen Few Jazz Band on Wednesday, June 28th 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.

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 dynamic musicians perform live from the Jazz Museum! Tune in at 2pm on facebook.com/nolajazzmuseum/live to watch for free.

Mari Watanabe

Pianist, composer, and arranger, Mari Watanabe began piano lessons at age five in Tokyo, where she was born. She was a member of the New Orleans Jazz Club while attending Waseda University, and after her first visit to New Orleans, she decided to make it her permanent home. Mari has performed with local jazz legends such as Danny Barker, Dr. Michael White, Gregg Stafford, Ernie K-Doe, Tuba Fats, and Kermit Ruffins, as well as with Harold Dejan’s Olympia Brass Band, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, and the Chosen Few Jazz Band, which she now leads.