Issue Articles
You Can Never Go Home Anymore
Photo by Jerry Moran More than four years after the federal flood, Cyril Neville still can’t shake the nightmares. The ordinary ones are bad enough—images of his home and neighborhood […]
the subdudes, Flower Petals (429)
After the straightforward verisimilitude of its CD/DVD release Live at the Ram’s Head, the new subdudes album, Flower Petals, is a mannered, carefully wrought set piece that takes a dramatic […]
Mike Hood, Hocus Pocus (STR Digital)
Pianist Mike Hood knows how to please a crowd during his regular gigs at Lafitte’s Blacksmith Shop, as long as the patrons are blues fans. “I take requests, but I […]
The Radiators, The Lost Southlake Sessions (Radz)
I’m going to go out on a limb and say The Lost Southlake Sessions was supposed to become the Rads’ third album for Epic Records, an unprovable premise because there’s […]
Voices in the Wilderness: Tab Benoit and Voice of the Wetlands
Tab Benoit stood up before a group of musicians, journalists, wetlands activists and potential donors in an airplane hanger at the Houma-Terrebonne airstrip last April. It was the Monday between […]
Mark Bingham of Piety Street Recording: No Shit
Mark Bingham is good at multitasking. The enigmatic, wisecracking denizen of Piety Street Recording is a jack of all trades on his home turf. Behind the mixing board in his […]
Terence Blanchard, Choices (Concord Jazz)
“I’m not against smartness and brains; it’s just that it falls so radically short of what it means to be human and making the right mature choices in life.” —Dr. […]
Jeremy Davenport: Get a Room
The swagger in Jeremy Davenport’s step is a little more exaggerated these days. He’s riding high on the success of his residence at the Ritz-Carlton on Canal Street, a new […]
Marcus Roberts
Pianist Marcus Roberts has been playing with bassist Roland Guerin and drummer Jason Marsalis (who also plays with Ellis Marsalis) for more than a decade, but it’s been eight years […]
The New Orleans Jazz Orchestra, Book One (Harmonia Mundi)
Irvin Mayfield’s musical career has been occluded by his personality, which has distracted critics from his strengths as a conceptualist and organizer adept at surrounding himself with exceptional talent. Mayfield […]
