Issue Articles
Cajun Punk Meets Irish
The Lost Bayou Ramblers sit down and get up with Spider Stacy of the Pogues. By the time London’s epochal Irish folk-punk band the Pogues recorded “Dirty Old Town” […]
Magnetic Ear, Live at Vaughan’s (Independent)
A decade ago, Martin Krusche was using his pocket brass band Magnetic Ear as a small-combo platform for his complex, brass-based jazz compositions and electric tenor sax experiments. In recent […]
New Quorum: The Value of Exchanging Ideas
The purpose of most artist-in-residence programs is to provide artists time and space to work on a particular piece. At the New Quorum, which kicked off its 2016 residency program […]
Regina Carter
More than a decade ago, jazz violinist Regina Carter became the first non-classical musician to play Niccolo Paganini’s highly guarded, handcrafted Guarneri violin, an instrument that dates back to 1743 […]
Lifetime Achievement in Music Business: Roland and Mary Von Kurnatowski
For New Orleans music devotees, Tipitina’s has long served as an icon of the city’s music history and the local music scene’s communal spirit. But that’s not what compelled Roland […]
Sound and Vision: New Orleans Film Festival
Born to Be Blue leads music films at New Orleans Film Festival. Over the course of 26 years, the New Orleans Film Festival has grown into one of the most […]
Baroque Baruch: The Franklin’s Chef Baruch Rabasa is doing Mexican brunch in the Marigny —with rich and ornate detail.
Last fall, Baruch Rabasa returned to his hometown of Mexico City to visit family. He’d recently given up his tenure as a private chef and, having helmed the kitchens at […]
Tonya Boyd-Cannon is Fearless
When Adam Levine told Tonya Boyd-Cannon she’d have to perform Elton John’s “Take Me to the Pilot” on the “Live” segment of NBC’s talent competition The Voice, she cried. It […]
Jazz Fest Focus: Christian McBride
Christian McBride Big Band (Second Jazz Fest Weekend) Sunday, May 3, Allison Miner Stage, 3:15p Zatarains/WWOZ Jazz Tent, 5:35 p.m. Asked to describe the musical common denominator he shares with Dianne […]
Jazz Fest Focus: Cecil McLorin Salvant
Cecil McLorin Salvant (Second Jazz Fest Weekend) Friday, May 1, Zatarain’s/WWOZ Jazz Tent, 4:20 p.m. By the time Carmen McRae comes to the final lyric of “Trouble Is a Man” during […]
