Issue Articles
All For Harold: Jazz Journalists Honor Jazz Hero Harold Battiste
Harold Battiste has been named a “Jazz Hero” by the New Orleans chapter of the Jazz Journalists Association and will be honored on April 30, International Jazz Day, at the […]
BackTalk: Getting Around with Sousaphone and Bassist Matt Perrine
With Carnival season in high gear and French Quarter Fest, then Jazz Fest, just around the corner, New Orleans musicians become marathoners. Matt Perrine, whose sousaphone and bass has been […]
Marc Stone, Josh Paxton and Freddie Staehle’s New Groove
Singer-songwriter, guitarist and WWOZ DJ Marc Stone has been working as a duo with keyboardist Josh Paxton in recent years. After a chance meeting with legendary New Orleans drummer Freddie […]
Radio Zeitgeist: Hurray for the Riff Raff’s Alynda Lee Segarra
They call themselves travelers. Teenagers on the run from a dead-end life in Orwellian America, they hop freight trains searching for the only freedom left to them, taking off for […]
Cyril Neville: Lifetime Achievement in Music Award Honoree
Cyril Neville was born in 1948, the youngest brother in what has long been considered the first family of New Orleans music, the Nevilles. For many years his genius was […]
Ponderosa Stomp Veterans Kick Off New Orleans Parish World Tour
Ponderosa Stomp fans that got their rocks off at October’s garage/psychedelia extravaganza will be treated to an encore on January 10 and 11, when three Stomp veterans unite for the […]
Treme S4 E3: Those Bells Are Tolling For Us All
In season four of the HBO series Treme the narrative force of this post-Katrina epic is dwindling along with the fortunes of its characters. Death and failure weave through the […]
Treme S4 E2: Death’s Grip On New Orleans, Wendell Pierce on Violence in New Orleans
HBO’s New Orleans-based drama Treme is down to its final three episodes. The action is picking up dramatically as story lines resolve with Shakesperian suddenness and finality. Those of us […]
Wendell Pierce of HBO’s Treme and New Orleans’ Joshua Generation
David Simon and Eric Overmyer’s HBO series Treme took docudrama well past its previous boundaries, blurring the distinctions between the actual historical figures that populated the narrative and the fictional […]
Wynton Marsalis, The Spiritual Side of Wynton Marsalis (Columbia / Legacy)
Wynton Marsalis has fashioned one of the more intriguing careers in jazz history. The brightest product of one of the greatest of New Orleans’ fabled musical families, Marsalis became the […]
