Issue Articles
A Decade in the Square
This spring, the Young Leadership Council celebrates 10 years of Wednesday at the Square. April 1 kicks off the new season of free after-work concerts in Lafayette Square with the […]
Good News
It was nice to see former OffBeat contributor and WWOZ DJ John Sinclair back in town for the funerals of Snooks Eaglin and Antoinette K-Doe. Sinclair is back in another […]
Andrew Duhon, Songs I Wrote Before I Knew You (Independent)
I’m not sure I believe in Andrew Duhon the songwriter, whose imagery, tropes and sentiments will feel familiar to anyone who has a passable collection of Americana singer/songwriters. But, I’m […]
Cyril Neville, Brand New Blues (M.C.)
You might expect Cyril Neville’s first post-Katrina album to comment on his trials since then, but the only lines that could be heard as a reference are from the spiritual […]
Sasha Masakowski, Musical Playground (Independent)
Jazz female vocalist albums send up all kinds of red flags. Too many seem to be about persona, or revisit standards that have been attended to a time or 20 […]
Ben Hunter, Traveler (Awareness)
Traveler evokes a less ambitious Wyclef Jean, but that’s a good thing. Ben Hunter’s modest, acoustic guitar-driven songs with gentle Island rhythms don’t represent anything more or less than a […]
Clint Maedgen + 9, Open Restraints (Independent)
Clint Maedgen can play sax, clarinet, piano and sing. He has conceived of numerous intelligent, provocative musical acts including (but not limited to) the New Orleans Bingo! Show. On Open […]
The Best of the Beat, 2008
At this year’s Best of the Beat events, the big winner was Irma Thomas. On the Wednesday celebration of business and individual achievement at Harrah’s Casino, she was named Female […]
Miles Davis, Kind of Blue Legacy Ed. (Columbia/Legacy)
The 50th anniversary reissue of Miles Davis’ landmark Kind of Blue raises the question of how you review reissues. In some cases, albums are ripe for reappraisal, but Kind of […]
Chris Darrow, Under My Own Disguise (Everloving)
The Chris Darrow bio is one of a guy who played with a lot of cool people in the late 1960s and early ’70s, but the people he played with […]
