The New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park & NOLAxNOLA present Talkin' Jazz with Fred Kasten: In Concert with the Mahmoud Chouki Trio on Tuesday, October 4th at 1:00 PM CDT. Talkin' Jazz with Fred Kasten: In Concert is a captivating blend of interesting talk and great music featuring top jazz artists in New Orleans, hosted monthly by award-winning radio producer and interviewer Fred Kasten. Sponsored by the New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park. This event will consist of a 40-minute interview & a 50-minute performance. 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 live music from home with the New Orleans Jazz Museum! Join the Jazz Museum online for daily virtual concerts, in which dynamic jazz musicians perform live from the Jazz Museum! Tune in on facebook.com/nolajazzmuseum/live to watch for free. Mahmoud “Mood” Chouki (Morocco, 1984) is a master guitarist, multi-instrumentalist, and composer. From the age of eight, Mood trained at the Conservatory of Larache in northern Morocco and continued on at the National Conservatory in Rabat, with a focus in music theory and classical guitar. His repertoire started to integrate the sounds and rhythms of various regions, using both the classical guitar and instruments such as the loutar, a traditional instrument of the Middle Atlas region of Morocco; the sintir, the oud, the Algerian mandole, the Bağlama saz, the banjo, and a variety of percussion instruments. His music draws from a number of influences including classical (Europe), Andalusian (Southern Spain), Levantine (Middle East/West Asia), Maghrebian (North Africa), Latin (South America), and Jazz (United States). At the age of eighteen, Mood won first prize in the International Guitar Competition in St. Esteban del Puerto, Spain. His projects led him to travel and perform around the world including the Magic Lutes Concerts with composer Hughes de Courson and the Symphonic Orchestras in Qatar (2011) and Bahrain (2013). Furthermore, Mood is the Artistic Director of Rencontre Orient-Occident at Château Mercier in Sierre, Switzerland, where he organizes annual artist residencies bringing together master musicians from east and west. For one week, they collectively encounter each others’ styles and cultures through music and experience, culminating in one final concert.
