Issue Articles — Features
The Humid List
In New Orleans in July, it’s not the heat, but the humidity. OffBeat offers a handful of people/places/things that will persevere this summer, and may help you do the same. […]
Working the Room with Irie Vibrations
They’re Gonna Make You Sweat — Whether You Want To Or Not Bob Marley, Jamaican music’s late great high priest, once said that reggae is not entertainment. Marley meant […]
Jazz Fest ’94 Revisited
The 1st Annual Unofficial OffBeat Jazz Fest Awards – Michel Tisserand There’s no better time than a 25th anniversary to launch the first annual awards for the highlights and […]
Destination Birmingham
There was a time when Kelly Ingram Park in Birmingham, Alabama was a symbol of all that was wrong with the American South. In the early 1960s, television reports of […]
At Play in the Tent of the Lord: The Story of the Jazz Fest’s Gospel Tent
When in doubt, go to the Gospel Tent has long been my Jazz Fest motto. The reason? Because that place always swings from the heart and soul. It is in […]
Harold Battiste: One For All
Harold Battiste is a sax player, a record maker, a jazz educator. His story, as told to John Sinclair, is an oral history of a life in New Orleans music. […]
Dr. John Comes Clean
The Good Dr. John’s profile is as high these days as it’s ever been. Rhino Records issued the Mos’scocious anthology, the first definitive collection of Mac Rebennack’s work. A fresh […]
Quint Davis: Man at the Top
Quint Davis was one of the young workers at the Tulane Jazz Archive that northeastern concert promoter George Wein recruited to help him stage a traditional New Orleans music festival […]
Irma Thomas: Time Is On Her Side
Walk Around Heaven, Irma Thomas’ fine new gospel album, closes with a gorgeous ballad called “Where We’ll Never Grow Old. ” The song is about the promised land, but could […]
