Various Artists, Avenue A to the Great White Way: Yiddish & American Popular Songs 1914-1950 (Columbia/Legacy)

Abe Schwartz, The Klezmer King (Columbia/Legacy)

The Musiker Brothers & Dave Tarras, Tanz! (Columbia/Legacy)

Morning Glory

Like Communists, the Unabomber and would-be Andy Warhol assassin Valerie Solanas, the Ninth Ward band Morning 40 Federation has its own Manifesto, which can be read in its entirety on […]

Various Artists, Bill Wyman’s Blues Odyssey (Document Records)

Masters of Louisiana Music: Louis Moreau Gottschalk

Masters of Louisiana Music: Louis Moreau Gottschalk

Teasing You

Striking Earl

Commissioned to create the painting that would grace OffBeat’s annual Jazz Fest issue, Cajun artist Earl Hebert wanted to give Antoine “Fats” Domino the regal treatment. Fats’ royal coiffure, a […]

We Three Kings of New Orleans Are Domino, Bartholomew & Toussaint: The ONLY New Orleans R&B albums You’ll Ever Need to Own!

Ingrid Lucia

Vocalist Ingrid Lucia literally cut her musical teeth on the streets of New Orleans. When she was 7, her parents, Maxine and William David Poppa Neutrino Maloney, formed a family […]