Science of Song, Arts of Medicine, featuring Dr. Christophe Jackson
About this Event
5:30PM Doors
6:00PM Program
Music predates written language and has served as a powerful force for healing, resilience, performance, and human connection throughout history. JGI New Orleans June resident, musician and neuroscientist Dr. Christophe Jackson will bridge the gaps between science, music and healing with the Science of Song, Arts of Medicine. Through lecture, meditation, conversation, and live performance, Dr. Jackson will explore how sound influences the mind, body, and beyond to support wellbeing, creativity, connection, and healing. This interactive experience bridges neuroscience, music, and medicine with the lived traditions of music as a healing practice across cultures and generations.
Dr. Jackson will also discuss his recent research in conversation and be accompanied by the following members of the 2026 JGI New Orleans Jazz Cohort: Steve Lands, Victor Campbell, Tonya Boyd-Cannon and Max Moran.
This event will be immersive, so your prompt arrival is appreciated. If possible, please bring a canned food item for the church’s food pantry.
Bios:
Dr. Christophe Jackson is originally from New Orleans. He is a musician, neuroscientist, clinician and engineer who is passionate about bridging the divide between music, science, and medicine. He leads with a multidisciplinary and integrative approach to scientific rigor and research, ensuring creative strategies are employed to heal people from all walks of life and increase access to health for all populations with whom he works..
Max Moran is a Louisiana born musician and composer who has become a first-call bassist across several genres in New Orleans’ thriving music scene. Known for his versatility on electric bass, upright bass, and synthesizer, Moran provides a solid, soulful foundation to a number of classic and progressive bands. After performing since the age of 13 and receiving a full scholarship to the Berklee College of Music, Max Moran spent over 10 years as the bassist for NEA Jazz Master Donald Harrison, and has also shared the stage with artists such as Davell Crawford, Leo Nocentelli (The Meters), Bernie Worrell (Parliament/ Funkadelic), and Grammy nominees Christian (Chief Adjuah) Scott and Jamison Ross.
His own band, Neospectric, features a rotating cast of over a dozen of New Orleans' most exciting and virtuosic young instrumentalists whose collective sideman credits include Jonathan Batiste, Big Sam's Funky Nation, and Solange. Moran also co-leads the award-winning Bridge Trio along with drummer, Joe Dyson, and pianist, Conun Pappas. The Bridge Trio has performed at prestigious venues such as The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, has released two self-produced albums, and has received awards from National Public Radio. Learn More: https://www.maxmoranmusic.com
Tonya Boyd-Cannon
Tonya Boyd-Cannon is a woman who does not simply perform music - she channels it, shapes it, teaches it, and uses it as a conduit for restoration. A classically trained musician and nationally recognized educator, Tonya brings a depth and intentionality to her craft that transcends genre. Her signature sound places vibe, storytelling, and soul-centered expression at the heart of every performance. Whether she’s moving listeners through heart-stretching ballads or igniting crowds with jazz, funk, rock, gospel, or blues, Tonya refuses limitations.
As a vocal phenomenon, she has built a career marked by multiple singles, EPs, full-length albums, and dynamic collaborations, including contributions to the soundtrack for ”Rustin,” the biopic about unsung civil rights activist Bayard Rustin. Each release showcases her vocal mastery and her commitment to creating music that is as healing as it is sonically rich. Her performances span global stages from the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival to Colombia’s Mompox Jazz Festival, yet her impact reaches far beyond the venue. Some may know her as a Top 20 finalist from NBC’s 2015 season of “The Voice,” or as the voice from the contemporary favorite local anthem “In New Orleans,” but dozens of children in New Orleans know her simply as, “teacher.” When Tonya is off stage, she directs the New Orleans Citywide Youth Choir and serves as the executive director of the Rise My Child Foundation.
Learn More: https://tbcexperience.com/
Victor Campbell
Victor Campbell is a young jazz piano player hailing from Camagüey, Cuba. His compelling style combines virtuosity, whimsy, charisma and technical prowess.Notably, it is just plain fun to watch Victor perform. He started playing piano at age 5 and went on to train at Cuba’s National School of the Arts. He has since played all over the United States and internationally. Victor first visited New Orleans in 2012 as a teenager, part of an exchange program with the Louis Armstrong Summer Jazz Camp. That visit changed his life and in 2019 Victor decided to move to New Orleans. He has been feverishly studying all styles of New Orleans music ever since, and incorporating it into his own musical language. He can effortlessly transition from a blues solo, to a Cuban timba montuno, and then right into a classical piano selection. In a 2019 interview, the great Chucho Valdés predicted that “Victor will revolutionize Cuban jazz piano.”
After performing as a featured new artist at several CubaNOLA showcases, Victor now has several New Orleans-based bands and collaborations, including his high-energy big band Timba Swamp, and is a fervent leader of the city’s growing Cuba-New Orleans fusion renaissance scene, which also includes collaborations with the Cuban funk phenomenon, Cimafunk, and New Orleans legends like Delfeayo Marsalis’ Uptown Jazz Orchestra. Most recently, he was recruited by renowned musical director Raphael Saadiq to play piano in the Oscar-nominated soundtrack for 2025’s Academy Award-winning film by director Ryan Coogler, “SINNERS.” Learn More: https://www.instagram.com/victorcampbell.art
Steve Lands is a Baton Rouge-bred, New Orleans-based trumpeter and composer who’s had the distinct pleasure of performing with some of world’s greatest musicians, including touring and recording with the world-renowned Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Elvis Costello, Jazz at Lincoln Center alumni Herlin Riley, Wess “Warmdaddy” Anderson, Victor Goines and Ronald Westray, Shannon “King of Tremé” Powell, Jason Marsalis, Evan Christopher, Grammy nominees Cyrille Aimée and Jamison Ross, Quiana Lynell, and most recently, PJ Morton.
As a composer, he’s scored the music for a handful of projects with filmmaker Marion Hill, including 2021’s Sundance Film Festival Award-winning feature, “Ma Belle, My Beauty.”
Hot on the heels of two sold-out debut performances of his current signature project, “Rearranging the Planets” for the Spring 2022 season at the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA), Lands has since been presenting new movements from this body of original compositions, such as the project’s little sister, “KosmiKrewe” aka “Cosmic Roux.”
Learn More: https://www.thestevelands.space/
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