Issue Articles
High Society: English import Andrew Hall celebrates 50 years of his Society Brass Band
Andrew Hall met David Bowie on just one occasion. “Wild, that was,” says Hall, sharing with textbook British dry wit the story of Bowie’s after-party for the 1970 “Night in […]
Next Level: Three daughters from three iconic fathers now set their own stage
New Orleans is known for its great musical families and jazz lineages where music is a craft, a business and a passion passed on from one generation to the next. […]
DumbSmart Industries: Local creatives form film company
“We had been working on stories before Nick had equipment,” New Orleans musician and actor Derrick Freeman explains of video/film collective DumbSmart Industries, which he co-founded a few years ago […]
Timeless Tradition: Calvin Johnson’s Pres Hall Series
“One of his mantras that he would always say to me,” Calvin Johnson Jr. recalls of his uncle—the late, great jazzman Ralph Johnson—from Preservation Hall’s courtyard offices, “was, ‘The world […]
Soundcheck: Five Questions with artist and musician Tony Green
What is it about Django Reinhardt’s guitar playing that so hooked you as a young musician? Starting off as a teenager, I was into rock ‘n’ roll and rockabilly. I […]
REWIND: Joe Krown, “Organ Combo Funk Yard” (STR Digital Records)
“[The title for Funk Yard] actually started with a picture. I was working with Bob Compton, who’s a photographer, and we were looking for a name for the record and […]
Our Music: Elysian Feel
“We met in our freshman year at Loyola—started jamming in the dorms. We’re seniors now so that’s been going on for four years. [Fellow Loyola students] Naughty Professor and Johnny […]
Soundcheck: Five Questions with AF THE NAYSAYER
How did you get the stage name AF THE NAYSAYER and what does this moniker represent about you and your music? AF is short for abstruse function. Abstruse function is […]
My Music: Mike Doussan
I started playing when I was eight years old, on guitar, but never really saw it as a viable way to make a living. My dad was a musician. He […]
Soundcheck: Five Questions with Jimmy Armstrong, Co-captain of Krewe of Dreux
When did the Krewe of Dreux begin? 1972.We had a bunch of people who were living in a four-plex at the corner of Dreux and Franklin Avenue. They had a […]
