Issue Articles
Sacred and Profane: The festival-opening invocation by Michael Skinkus and Moyuba
MICHAEL SKINKUS & MOYUBA: FRIDAY, APRIL 28—LAGNIAPPE STAGE, 11:30 A.M Jazz Fest 48 will be remembered as the year New Orleans officially rekindled its African diaspora cultural connection to […]
The New King of Jazz Fest: Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews Rules
TROMBONE SHORTY & ORLEANS AVENUE: SUNDAY, MAY 7—ACURA STAGE, 5:35 P.M. Over the past half-century the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival has defined what it means to be […]
Elvin Bishop, “Big Fun Trio” (Alligator Records)
Damn, here’s another really top-notch record from Elvin Bishop. How does he do it? Very few blues musicians can turn out records that are as consistently great as Elvin’s. I […]
Chloe Feoranzo and Tom McDermott, “Zeppelins Made to Order” (Rabadash Records)
Tom McDermott is an uncharacteristic New Orleans pianist. The sheer virtuosity that epitomizes New Orleans “professors” from Jelly Roll Morton to James Booker is not his goal. McDermott thinks before […]
Hurray for the Riff Raff, “The Navigator” (ATO)
I’ve been a hungry ghost/ So I travel coast to coast In New Orleans we watched Alynda Segarra grow from a ragged teenage traveler singing shyly on the streets of […]
Michael Tisserand Krazy: “George Herriman, A Life in Black and White” (Harper)
On one of my first trips to New Orleans back in the twentieth century I was in a cab in the French Quarter when we passed several strikingly beautiful young […]
Lifetime Achievement in Music Education: Bruce Boyd Raeburn
Dr. Bruce Boyd Raeburn’s work turning the Hogan Jazz Archive at Tulane into a resource for students, researchers and fans of New Orleans music is a remarkable achievement that ensures […]
Zeke Fishhead, Look Glass Trick & Gone World, (www.Livedownloads.com)
Everything in the deckhouse of Volker’s magic carpet is designed to supplicate whatever muse inspires his art, from his one-man recording rig to his armada of dictionaries. Through overlaying multiple […]
Ana Popovic, Trilogy (ArtisteXclusive Records)
It’s hard to set yourself apart in the blues world these days. Concept remains an effective way of doing it, and Popovic, with the help of a host of New […]
John Gros: With a Little Help From His Friends
In mid-August John Gros was preparing to drop his first solo album in 12 years, River’s on Fire, when he got the call. His father Don’s Baton Rouge house had […]
