Issue Articles — Cover Story
Davell Crawford: The Prince of New Orleans
“I tell people that my mom had triplets—she had me, a little baby grand and a microphone,” Davell Crawford says and begins to laugh. His statement isn’t far from the […]
The Legends of New Orleans R&B: Best of the Beat 2012 Lifetime Achievement Awards
The Legends of New Orleans R&B, honored at OffBeat’s Best of the Beat awards show, will be recreated during the upcoming fourth season of the HBO series Treme. Ironically, this […]
The BEAT Goes On: A 25 Year Retrospective of OffBeat Magazine
OffBeat Magazine, the foremost authority on Louisiana music and one of the world’s longest-running jazz and roots music publications, celebrates its 25th anniversary with this issue. Here, we give a […]
A Nightingale Takes Flight: Ingrid Lucia Looks Back, Moves Forward
Ingrid Lucia takes a beat from music and motherhood during a rainy Friday lunch at a Mid City taqueria. It’s been almost two years since the New Orleans songstress lost […]
A Tale of New Orleans: Spencer Bohren’s Storied Blues
Verse 1: Kitchen Music Spencer Bohren and his wife Marilyn are spending a rare day at home in their cozy brick cottage on Esplanade Ridge. It’s a steamy August afternoon […]
Adolfo Garcia: The Metamorphosis of New Orleans’ Hungriest Restaurateur
“I felt like I was lip-syncing, like I was Ashlee Simpson on Saturday Nigh Live,” says Adolfo Garcia. Garcia is talking about Rio Mar. More specifically, why, after owning and […]
Louis Armstrong’s Musical Ideals
On June 29th, Trombone Shorty brought his band to Brooklyn’s Prospect Park for an outdoor concert. The show sold out, but thousands of people kept streaming into the park as […]
The Original Pinettes Brass Band: Brass-Pop
It’s Friday night on Frenchmen Street, almost 10 p.m., and a crowd is starting to gather in strength at Maison. Christie Jourdain, snare drummer and leader of the Original Pinettes, […]
Nine Lives: A Life of Its Own
Paul Sanchez is frowning. The latest cast and crew for a performance of the music from Nine Lives: A Musical Story of New Orleans is onstage at the Contemporary […]
Preservation Hall 2.0
[Updated] Within the span of two days, music fans attending this year’s Jazz Fest will have the extremely rare opportunity to time-travel more than a half a century, in […]
