Issue Articles
From the Archive: Bela Fleck
In 1989, Béla Fleck was in a bit of a predicament: He found himself scrambling to find a band to back him for a PBS Lonesome Pine television special. Given […]
Various Artists, Ain’t No Funk Like N.O. Funk (Bullseye Blues & Jazz
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Galactic Blasts Off
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Unplugged: A Brief History and Goodbye
This marks the last installment of my column, and August will be the first month since June of 1993 that I won’t be working at OffBeat in some capacity — […]
Chocolate Milk, Ice Cold Funk: The Greatest Grooves of Chocolate Milk (Razor & Tie)
The obvious problem in compiling a greatest hits record is determining which hits of the band in question are their greatest. In the case of Chocolate Milk, the New Orleans […]
Local Roots Music On-Line; New Music Scoring Software
The World Wide Web just got a big dose of funk, blues, greazy Fishhead rock, and New Orleans by-way-of Sweden funky blues/rock thanks to new sites by local veteran musicians […]
Best and Worst of Jazz Fest 1998, The Fans’ Perspective
Once again this year, the Internet and, especially, the World Wide Web proved an invaluable tool for Jazz Fest visitors as well as an open forum for music fans to […]
Fest Focus: The Skatalites
One of the strongest aspects of each year’s musical line-up at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival is the large number of genuine innovators of a style. The 1998 […]
Fest Focus: Ronnie Dawson
Of all the artists playing Jazz Fest this year, Ronnie Dawson certainly has the strangest career trajectory. Rather than hitting it big with a record when starting out and building […]
Fest Feedback, Take Two
What a topic this Jazz Fest booking question is. After posting the question, “What do you think about this year’s Jazz Fest line-up” to our Web site, our mailbox has […]
