Issue Articles — Jazz Fest Focus
Jazz Fest Focus: Christian McBride
Christian McBride Big Band (Second Jazz Fest Weekend) Sunday, May 3, Allison Miner Stage, 3:15p Zatarains/WWOZ Jazz Tent, 5:35 p.m. Asked to describe the musical common denominator he shares with Dianne […]
Jazz Fest Focus: Cecil McLorin Salvant
Cecil McLorin Salvant (Second Jazz Fest Weekend) Friday, May 1, Zatarain’s/WWOZ Jazz Tent, 4:20 p.m. By the time Carmen McRae comes to the final lyric of “Trouble Is a Man” during […]
Jazz Fest Focus: Monty Alexander
Monty Alexander and the Harlem-Kingston Express (Second Jazz Fest Weekend) Thursday, April 30, Zatarain’s/WWOZ Jazz Tent, 5:30 p.m. In the late ’50s, in Kingston, Jamaica, the steady diet of music feeding […]
Jazz Fest Focus: Angelique Kidjo
Angelique Kidjo (Festival International de Louisiane) Thursday, April 23, Scene Stabil Drill International Stage, 9:45 p.m.; (First Jazz Fest Weekend) Sunday, April 26, Congo Square, 1:55 p.m. Building physical bridges […]
Jazz Fest Focus: Tony Hall is James Brown
Tony Hall and the New Orleans Soul Stars’ Tribute to James Brown (First Jazz Fest Weekend) Saturday, April 25, Congo Square, 12:30 p.m. “You can’t fake the funk,” declares Tony […]
Fest Focus: Kim Carson
Since she just lost her job, and her RV did in fact break down on a trip back from Nashville, it certainly appears that outlaw crooner Kim Carson now officially […]
Fest Focus: Los Lobos
Uncertainty can paralyze, but in the case of Los Lobos, it produced a Kiss-like outpouring of solo projects and a Grammy. In 1997, the’ band left Warner Brothers, their label […]
Fest Focus: Davell Crawford
New Orleans is probably the only city that might accurately be described as a musical conservatory unto itself. To paraphrase the sign on Bourbon Street’s Famous Door, through the portals […]
Fest Focus: Rosie Ledet
Don’t be surprised if you catch Rosie Ledet stifling a yawn or two between songs during her Jazz Fest set. With a her fifth CD just released I’m A Woman […]
Fest Focus: Bobby “Blue” Bland
Fame and notoriety have hovered close to Bobby “Blue” Bland for over four decades. It’s always been close, but it’s never quite touched him. Nevertheless, Bland’s rich blend of gospel […]
