Issue Articles
What Happens in Vegas…
Try to separate fact from fiction where Las Vegas is concerned. Long before the “What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas” marketing campaign, a shroud of myth hovered over everything […]
Ingrid Lucia, Midnight Rendezvous (Threadhead Records)
Ingrid Lucia stylizes something that is already stylized—the trad jazz canary. That has distinguished her from others working the same field, but the level of abstraction she reaches sometimes makes […]
Stanton Moore, Groove Alchemy (Telarc)
Groove Alchemy the CD is only one part of Groove Alchemy, the larger project that comes with a DVD and instructional book. The project takes drummers and those interested in […]
Bobby Charles, Timeless (Rice ‘n’ Gravy)
Thinking about a Bobby Charles album the way we normally think of albums probably isn’t fair. It’s hard to believe he took much care with programming Timeless, and the album […]
HBO’s Treme: To Tell the Truth
Tipitina’s is smokier than usual, perhaps because there’s a smoke wrangler. A woman walks among the crowd, offers people cigarettes and on cue, the takers start puffing. Soon a gray-blue […]
Obituary: Alex Chilton (1950-2010)
Singer, songwriter, guitarist and producer Alex Chilton died of a heart-related problem in New Orleans on March 17, 2010. Chilton’s work with the Box Tops, Big Star and as a […]
Josh Charles, Love, Work & Money (CC Ent/Copycat)
A reviewer for HuffingtonPost.com wrote of Love, Work & Money, “Remember where you were when you heard Stevie Wonder’s Songs in the Key of Life, or Alicia Keys’ Songs in […]
Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Preservation (Preservation Hall)
By now, it should be obvious that this is not your father’s Preservation Hall Jazz Band. Under Ben Jaffe’s leadership, it has become something more post-modern and conceptual. The name’s […]
LA at SXSW
OffBeat cover subject MyNameIsJohnMichael will be part of the contingent from Louisiana going to Austin, Texas for South by Southwest, the annual music festival and conference. This year, more than […]
Preservation Hall Jazz Band: The A List
For its new album, the Preservation Hall Jazz Band made some high-profile friends, but who learned from who? Since Preservation Hall opened in 1961, it has been the great […]
