Music
The Revivalists, City of Sound with Bonus Live Disc (Wind Up Records)
The Revivalists play Jazz Fest on Saturday, May 3—Samsung Galaxy Stage, 2:05 p.m. Wind Up Records has reissued the fine disc City of Sound from the Revivalists but has added […]
DVS (Dillon, Vidacovich, Singleton), Bones (mikedillonvibes.com)
The jazz trio as a format is as old as jazz itself. However, few if any jazz trios have sounded like this one. With Mike Dillon on vibraphone and tablas, […]
Tommy Malone, Poor Boy (M.C. Records)
Most artists in fields other than popular music make their best work not in their youth but later in life, when they’ve had a time to contemplate their lives and […]
Stanton Moore, Conversations (Royal Potato Family)
Stanton Moore plays Jazz Fest on Thursday, May 1—Zatarain’s/WWOZ Jazz Tent, 2:50 p.m. This record will be a surprise to those who only know Moore’s funk work with Galactic/Dragon Smoke, […]
Fest Focus 2014: Jason Isbell
Few people in the music business pull off the triple threat of being a great singer, a killer guitarist, and an incisive songwriter better than Jason Isbell. In this current […]
Fest Focus 2014: The Gloryoskis!
When it comes to musical collaborations, one might think that a combination of the avant-garde and French leanings of Helen Gillet, the tricky folk of Myshkin, and the more popular/jazz […]
Fest Focus 2014: Phillip Manuel
As a singer and a musical artist, Phillip Manuel is always looking for something new to offer an audience. So as the 2014 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival approached, […]
Fest Focus 2014: Luke Winslow King
Given his interests and experiences, it is no wonder that Luke Winslow King’s music combines much of the music of New Orleans. In an interview after his return from South […]
Harmonica Man Johnny Sansone Returns to Jazz Fest
It’s been a slow-and-steady progression for harmonica man and songwriter Johnny Sansone, but he has become one of the best bluesmen running around New Orleans. His trio gigs at Chickie […]
A Tribute to Buddy Bolden at Jazz Fest 2014
Charles “Buddy” Bolden. For those in the know, the cornetist’s name conjures up an entire world of turn-of-the-19th century New Orleans and the jazz music of which he was probably […]
