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Michael White is an American jazz clarinetist and educator. He was born on November 29, 1954 in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. He is 66 years old as of 2021. White began playing the clarinet at the age of nine and was soon performing with local jazz bands. He attended the University of New Orleans, where he studied music and composition. After graduating, he joined the Preservation Hall Jazz Band and toured with them for several years. White has released several albums as a leader, including "The Blessing" (1995), "Spirit Dance" (1997), and "Blue Crescent" (1999). He has also collaborated with a variety of artists, including Wynton Marsalis, Dr. John, and the Neville Brothers. White has been a professor at the University of New Orleans since 1997. He has also served as a guest lecturer at numerous universities and music festivals around the world. White has won numerous awards, including the National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters Fellowship in 2011. He has also been inducted into the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame.

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Occupation Musician, educator
Age 69 years old
Zodiac Sign Sagittarius
Born 29 November 1954
Birthday 29 November
Birthplace New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.
Nationality United States

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2008

He is a recipient of a 2008 National Heritage Fellowship awarded by the National Endowment for the Arts, which is the United States' highest honor in the folk and traditional arts.

2006

In 1981, White founded The Original Liberty Jazz Band to preserve the musical heritage of New Orleans. The group has performed an end-of-year concert at the Village Vanguard every year since the early 1990s. On May 13, 2006, White performed "Just a Closer Walk With Thee" at the Tulane University commencement ceremony. Former Presidents George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton were in attendance at the ceremony. Clinton said that the music "was played the way Dixieland bands have always done it. At first low, weeping, sorrowful."

2005

White was living in a one-story home in the Gentilly district of New Orleans, near the London Avenue Canal during Hurricane Katrina in 2005. White was a collector of jazz artifacts and local history for 30 years. He owned the original sheet music of "Dead Man Blues" by Jelly Roll Morton, a clarinet mouthpiece by Sidney Bechet, and an estimated 5,000 records and LPs which were lost during the flooding.

2004

Since 1979 White has played in the Young Tuxedo Brass Band, founded by clarinetist John Casimir sometime in the 1940s. During the 1980s he led a band called The New Orleans Hot Seven. Performing "A Tribute to Jelly Roll Morton" in concert with them at the Lincoln Center in New York City in 1989 led to a favorable review by Jon Pareles in the New York Times. On May 25, 2004, a selection from White's album Dancing in the Sky ("Algiers Hoodoo Woman") was broadcast on NPR's All Songs Considered. The Dancing in the Sky album is mostly original compositions by White.

1989

White is a classically trained musician who began his jazz musical career as a teenager playing for Doc Paulin's Brass Band in New Orleans. He was a member of an incarnation of the Fairview Baptist Church Marching Band, established by banjoist Danny Barker. He was discovered by Kid Sheik Colar, who heard him performing in Jackson Square in the French Quarter. White began working regularly with Colar. White can be heard on the 1989 album The Majesty of the Blues by Wynton Marsalis. Marsalis appears on White's 1990 album Crescent City Serenade with Wendell Brunious and Walter Payton.

1954

Dr. Michael White (born November 29, 1954 in New Orleans) is a jazz clarinetist, bandleader, composer, jazz historian and musical educator. Jazz critic Scott Yanow said in a review that White "displays the feel and spirit of the best New Orleans clarinetists".