Issue Articles
Obituary: John Brunious
Another one of America’s non-renewable resources disappeared when trumpeter John Brunious, leader of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band for more than 20 years, died February 12. Brunious and his younger […]
Jesse McBride, Jesse McBride presents the Next Generation (AFO)
I’ve been spending a lot of time recently ruminating on the nature of traditional New Orleans jazz and the extremely subtle differences between the approaches taken by its continued practitioners. […]
Wynton Marsalis, Standards & Ballads (Columbia/Legacy)
Given the makeup of the new Wynton Marsalis compilation, Standards and Ballads, its no surprise that the music contained therein lives up to the highest standards of its genre. Here […]
Glen David Andrews
The late January afternoon shadows shiver across the flagstones on Jackson Square as a crowd of about 50 tourists in winter clothes passively watches an unlikely collection of musicians—a chubby, […]
Blind Boys of Alabama: Just One of the Boys
After 69 years in the business of singing gospel, Jimmy Carter still had something new to learn about his music when the Blind Boys of Alabama came to New Orleans […]
Groovesect, On the Brim (Independent)
One New Orleans musical tradition that is in no danger of disappearing in the wake of the flood is the funk jam. The new new wave of funk jam bands, […]
Hart McNee, Mimi’s Rumba (Frenchmen Street)
The bulk of Hart McNee’s recorded work is as a saxophonist, including sessions with blues icon Mike Bloomfield and one of the patron saints of the freak folk movement, Karen […]
Big Chief Alfred Doucette, Rollin’ Wit Da Legends & Marie Laveau (Independent)
In late August 2005, Kevin O’Day played his last weekly show at Ray’s, a luxurious glass-walled club atop the World Trade Center. Little did the cocktail loungers in this posh […]
Lifetime Achievement Award in Music: Wardell Quezergue
On an unseasonably warm December afternoon, Wardell Quezergue walks carefully into the Musicians Union meeting hall on Esplanade Avenue. The 77-year-old, legally blind Quezergue can’t see the rich reddish brown […]
The Whole Drum Truth
Drummer Albert “Tootie” Heath grew up in Philadelphia, but the music of New Orleans had a powerful effect on him nevertheless. Every weekend during his childhood, Heath listened in fascination […]
