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Sandy Warren, Art Blakey: Cookin’ and Jammin’—Recipes and Remembrances from a Jazz Life (Margaret Media)
Growing up where fresh fruit meant the occasional brown banana or “sour green apple he found on the ground,” Art Blakey craved freshness in the kitchen as well as on […]
Elizabeth Kleinveld (ed.), Before During After (UNO Press)
[UPDATED] Before During After speaks to the power of Hurricane Katrina, though not in the way it intends. Photographer Elizabeth Kleinveld had the provocative idea to document how Katrina affected […]
Two Louis
David Stricklin Louis Armstrong: The Soundtrack of the American Experience (Ivan R. Dee) Scott Allen Nollen Louis Armstrong: The Life, Music, and Screen Career (McFarland and Company) Louis Daniel Armstrong […]
Michael Patrick Welch with Alison Fensterstock, New Orleans: The Underground Guide (UNO Press)
New Orleans has long fostered an underground scene unlike any other. Our tendency to prefer life a little quirkier is one of the reasons people migrate to the Crescent City. […]
Andre Williams, Sweets and Other Stories (Kicks Books)
Hello world, meet Andre Williams, man of letters. If you’ve already met “Mr. Rhythm” in his better-known persona as purveyor of greasy R&B to the world, said knowledge shall deepen […]
Bruce Boyd Raeburn, New Orleans Style and the Writing of American Jazz History (University of Michigan Press)
It is no secret to musicians trying to play New Orleans jazz for a living that jazz writers have agendas, and that what passes for worthy in the jazz media […]
Thomas L. Morgan, Historic Photos of New Orleans Jazz (Turner Publishing)
As New Orleans continues to remind itself why it matters after Katrina, here is a photo history to abet the process. Historic Photos of New Orleans Jazz is the most […]
Something Precious: Down, Eyehategod and “Precious Metal”
Metal. The horns. The scary kids screaming about Satan or shooting heroin into their eyes, the ones who corrupt the youth of tomorrow into blindly following their anti-leaders dressed in […]
Ethan Brown, Shake the Devil Off: A True Story of the Murder That Rocked New Orleans (Henry Holt)
In the fall of 2006, a year after Katrina, Times-Picayune headlines detailed the murder of young French Quarter denizen Addie Hall, murdered by her boyfriend. Her body was found butchered […]
Jeff Kaliss, I Want to Take You Higher: The Life and Times of Sly and the Family Stone/Eddie Santiago, Sly: The Lives of Sylvester Stewart and Sly Stone
For those who tuned in late, Sly and the Family Stone released seven essential albums, from 1967’s A Whole New Thing to 1974’s Small Talk. Go out and get them. […]
