Issue Articles
Modern Jazz: Big Easy Beat
Although most people do not associate New Orleans with modern jazz, there is a modern jazz scene here. Thanks to the ascendency of Wynton Marsalis, Harry Connick, Jr., and, to […]
Fear? Loathing? Mecca? Bourbon Street: A Survival Guide
“I had narrowly missed some guys at the end of the strip—and I was lucky enough to escape death.” —from “Hell on Wheels,” a religious pamphlet found in the gutter […]
NewsBeat December 1989
”Make a Joyful Noise!” …a paean to the gospel music that permeates New Orleans’ neighborhoods during the holiday season, and all during the year, for that matter. New Orleans loves […]
Open All Night
Open all night. Those words convey a certain mystique; of the life that exists beyond the ordinary margins, of revelry unabated ’til dawn’s early light, or of spectral grey figures […]
Toward the Essential New Orleans Collection
In a place where music means so much—and where so much of it has been recorded—what visitor or resident hasn’t entertained the idea of building an essential New Orleans record […]
Return of The Cold
“Book ’em Dano…er, Jimmy.” And he has, Jimmy Anselmo of Jimmy’s club on Willow Street, that is. He’s booked ’em again, this time as a holiday treat for those avid, […]
Inside Zydeco, Part One
“Honey, in a bar on in a church, it doesn’t make no difference—it’s all the same.” Zydeco. More than just South Louisiana black man’s music, it’s his sustenance. Consumed like […]
Brass Band Jazz, Part Two: A Modern Tradition
(The second of a three part series on Modern Brass Band music. Read parts one and three.) Jazz historian and clarinetist Dr. Michael White is the author of “The New […]
Gallery Scene: Magazine Street, Art on the Street of Dreams
At one time just about all the serious art galleries in New Orleans were in the French Quarter. Now, most of the art galleries in the French Quarter are not […]
Gospel! Religious Music in New Orleans
New Orleans has long been famous as a get-down music city of the first magnitude, but this party town is also prolifically endowed with a large number of churches as […]
