Issue Articles — Features
The State of New Orleans Jazz
Editor’s Note: Delfeayo Marsalis has a unique insider’s perspective on the contemporary jazz world. Born into the New Orleans family that has become a musical dynasty, Delfeayo got his start […]
Art’s Big Night Out
The Arts For Arts’ Sake Celebration Has Become A Populist Ritual In The Big Easy. Among the arts of the Crescent City, the music, food and literature have long […]
Boom Town
Once it was flirting with extinction. Now the brass band is alive and well and reshaping everything musical in its path. Even “The Flintstones” theme. When the Onward Brass […]
George Buck: They Call Him Mr. Trad
George Buck oversees the world’s largest traditional jazz catalog from his Decatur Street sanctuary. New Orleans — the birthplace of jazz. Webster tells us it is “a kind of […]
Cowboy Mouth: Have Mouth, Will Roar
Cowboy Mouth releases its debut album and hopes to prove that four Mouths are better- though not necessarily bigger- than Fred’s. “Fred’s band.” For the first year or so […]
Tab Benoit: Little Boy Blue
When a DJ at WTUL-FM tried to plug one of Tab Benoit’s recent gigs at the Mid City Bowling Lanes, he came up against the young blues guitarist’s surname… and […]
Touching Bass with George Porter
When we last heard from bassist George Porter, Jr.—the man who was in on funk’s ground floor with the Meters and has since developed into one of New Orleans’ busiest […]
An OffBeat Interview with Dr. John
Twenty years have elapsed since Mac Rebennack set aside the extravagances of his “Dr. John” character to record the acclaimed Gumbo album, a relatively low-key homage to New Orleans R&B […]
A Dispatch from the Road
EDITOR’S NOTE: Remember George Porter Jr.? New Orleans’ Master of Funk has been on tour the last few months with David Byrne’s band. He has a few days off in […]
Nevilles on the Air?
As far as record release parties go, you really can’t beat the one that ushered in the Neville Brothers’ Family Groove: the 360,000-attendee, media-saturated shindig that was the 1992 Jazz […]
