Issue Articles
Jazz Fest Focus: Monty Alexander
Monty Alexander and the Harlem-Kingston Express (Second Jazz Fest Weekend) Thursday, April 30, Zatarain’s/WWOZ Jazz Tent, 5:30 p.m. In the late ’50s, in Kingston, Jamaica, the steady diet of music feeding […]
Jazz Fest Focus: Angelique Kidjo
Angelique Kidjo (Festival International de Louisiane) Thursday, April 23, Scene Stabil Drill International Stage, 9:45 p.m.; (First Jazz Fest Weekend) Sunday, April 26, Congo Square, 1:55 p.m. Building physical bridges […]
Jazz Fest 2015 A to Z Guide
It can be daunting to choose from the panoply of cultures, rhythms and sounds available at Jazz Fest when mapping out a day at the Fair Grounds; this handy guide […]
Delfeayo Marsalis Finds a New Orleans Groove
Most Wednesday nights at Snug Harbor, the live music starts before any musicians walk onstage. Clustered at the top of the club’s mezzanine stairs, trombone slides and trumpet bells vying […]
Irvin Mayfield’s Expanding world
Past a two-story wall of windows, up a wide set of wooden stairs, and set back from the concert stage at Irvin Mayfield’s newly christened New Orleans Jazz Market sits […]
Ken Burns Brings Jazz Documentary to New Orleans
It’s been 14 years since Ken Burns’ controversial documentary Jazz aired on PBS, introducing a general audience to the history of swing music and positioning Louis Armstrong and his peers […]
Lifetime Achievement in Music Education: Roger Dickerson
It wasn’t long after a teenaged Terence Blanchard began piano and composition lessons from Roger Dickerson, Sr. that Blanchard experienced the holistic nature of the composer’s teaching style. “He asked […]
Jason Marsalis Vibes Quartet, The 21st Century Trad Band (Basin Street Records)
Alternately elegant, quirky, political and swinging, Jason Marsalis’ third studio outing with his vibes quartet serves as a sequel to the group’s excellent 2013 release, In a World of Mallets. […]
James Singleton Finds Beauty in Complexity
Sporting twin ponytail poufs atop her head, her 6-year-old brow creased with determination, Ruby Singleton lays out the details of a Harry Potter-inspired mission for the sidekick she’s met at […]
Prospect.3 Tackles Sound-Oriented Pieces in New Orleans
“Who are we? What are we? Where are we going?” These are some of the questions curator Franklin Sirmans hopes to tackle through his selections for Prospect.3: Notes for Now, […]
