OffBeat magazine, now celebrating 30 years, has always been dedicated to the music of Louisiana. We will celebrate the city’s 300th in song—300 songs chosen from all 300 years of New Orleans’ history. Selections from the earliest African and Caribbean rhythms of Congo Square along with the classical compositions of Louis Moreau Gottschalk, Edmund Dédé and others will be included, as will the ragtime and early piano jazz of Storyville, including New Orleans’ own Tony Jackson. We ...