French Quarter - Jazz Program - Tim Sullivan and Gregg Stafford
The New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park
and the
Jean Lafitte National Historical Park & Preserve
present
Tim Sullivan and Gregg Stafford
Thursday at 3:00 pm
At the National Park Service French Quarter Visitor Center
419 Decatur St, New Orleans
Recently named a consecutive “Rising Star Baritone Saxophonist” in the 2025 and 2026 Downbeat Magazine Critics Poll, NO FEAR Founder and Executive Director, Tim” Sully” Sullivan, has been a top call stage and studio performer for over 25 years in New Orleans, Chicago, and New York City. With a soulful and singular sound on saxophones, flutes, clarinets, whistles, and voice, he has performed, recorded, and toured throughout the U.S. and overseas with artists ranging from Soul Queen Aretha Franklin to Funk Legend Fred Wesley to over a dozen NEA Jazz Masters to name a few.
Gregg Stafford is a traditional jazz trumpeter and music educator who has led the Young Tuxedo Brass Band for over 30 years and is dedicated to preserving the heritage of the city’s brass bands. Stafford grew up amidst New Orleans’ Central City neighborhood and the New Orleans street parade community. In the early 1970s Stafford joined Danny Barker’s legendary Fairview Baptist Church Band, formed by Barker to teach the old-line brass band culture to the city’s youth. When he was 16, Stafford began playing in several bands, including the Olympia Brass Band, Teddy Riley’s Royal Brass Band, and the Young Tuxedo Brass Band. Stafford began touring with the Young Tuxedo Brass Band and eventually worked his way up the ranks to bandleader, a position he still holds today. He also led the Heritage Hall Jazz Band, and, in 1994, the circle came around as he took over Danny Barker’s Jazz Hounds. In addition to leading his own bands, he performs regularly with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band and fellow Fairview alumnus Dr. Michael White’s Original Liberty Jazz Band. Stafford has recorded with many traditional jazz notables, including the Preservation Hall Brass Band, Dr. Michael White, and Wynton Marsalis, and with many of the city’s brass bands.
This program is free and open to the public.
Fees
Free and open to the public
Location
National Park Service French Quarter visitor center - 419 Decatur St, New Orleans, LA 70130. (Near the statue of Bienville.)
Latitude and Longitude 29.954800, -90.064754
Schedule
Date:
Time:
Duration:
3:00 to 4:00 pm Central Time (ending time is approximate)
Event Type
- Performance
- Talk