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Evan Christopher Brings a Modern Edge to the Creole Clarinet
Thunder rumbles off the bayou and wind-whipped palm fronds rattle outside Evan Christopher’s Mid-City home. It’s a gray afternoon in June and through the sounds of a brewing storm, the […]
Protecting Dave Bartholomew’s Legacy
The modest, wood-frame house at 1616 N. Galvez St. looks pretty much like all its neighbors, but the front door leads to a dynastic kingdom inside. Walk through the sparsely […]
20 Feet From Stardom: Erica Falls Steps Up
It’s a question that Erica Falls hears often enough: “If you’re this good, how come I never heard of you before?” As a soloist, she’s been performing for the better […]
The Life of Rebirth Brass Band
The Rebirth Brass Band is one of the great musical institutions in New Orleans history; the group best defines the transition between traditional and contemporary brass bands. Rebirth is about […]
The DUKES of Dixieland: A New Take on a New Orleans Institution
On any given night, a festive crowd will find its way to the Mississippi River and aboard the Steamboat Natchez, where the DUKES of Dixieland play an early-evening cruise, seven […]
The Dukes of Dixieland: The Assuntos Start a Musical Legacy
Anniversaries aren’t always happy affairs and this one has more than its share of melancholy. Forty years ago, on February 25, 1974, Frank Assunto, New Orleans trumpet player and leader […]
Two-Way-Pocky-Way: Big Chief Donald Harrison, Jr.
Two things have surrounded saxophonist Donald Harrison, Jr. throughout his life—jazz and the Mardi Gras Indian tradition. The son of the Guardians of the Flames’ Big Chief Donald Harrison, Sr., […]
Radio Zeitgeist: Hurray for the Riff Raff’s Alynda Lee Segarra
They call themselves travelers. Teenagers on the run from a dead-end life in Orwellian America, they hop freight trains searching for the only freedom left to them, taking off for […]
Cyril Neville: Lifetime Achievement in Music Award Honoree
Cyril Neville was born in 1948, the youngest brother in what has long been considered the first family of New Orleans music, the Nevilles. For many years his genius was […]
Wendell Pierce of HBO’s Treme and New Orleans’ Joshua Generation
David Simon and Eric Overmyer’s HBO series Treme took docudrama well past its previous boundaries, blurring the distinctions between the actual historical figures that populated the narrative and the fictional […]
