Issue Articles
Anders Osborne, Coming Down (M.C. Records)
There has been plenty of rhetoric about New Orleans music post-Katrina, but just as 9-11 didn’t produce a wellspring of inspired popular music, Katrina has failed to inspire the bumper […]
The Lee Boys and the Outside World
The Lee Boys—guitarist Alvin, vocalists Derrick and Keith Lee and their nephews steel guitarist Roosevelt Collier, bassist Alvin Cordy, Jr. and drummer Earl Walker—bring their version of “sacred steel” to […]
Andy J. Forest, Real Stories of Love, Labor and Other Man-Made Catastrophes (Independent)
Smug pundits have long ridiculed latter day blues musicians for the dubious sin of plying other people’s miseries for subject material. Well, to quote Little Richard, SHUT UP! It may […]
Terence Blanchard, A Tale of God’s Will (A Requiem for Katrina) (Blue Note)
The last we heard from Terence Blanchard on record was the vibrant Flow, which he showcased at the 2005 Essence Festival as the marquee New Orleans act on the bill. […]
Wynton Marsalis Presents Congo Square with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra Yacub Addy and Odadaa!, Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier, Montreal, June 28, 2007
Wynton Marsalis is a little like Barry Bonds in the batter’s box. Don’t expect him to bunt. Marsalis swings for the fences and when he hits it out, the whole […]
A Wild “World”
Although Louis Armstrong is most famous for his inventiveness and influence as a player and singer, the song that has come to be most associated with him in New Orleans […]
The Armstrong Legacy
“All of the trumpeters that come from New Orleans—whether we know it or not, or whether we acknowledge it or not—we live in the echo of Pops.”—Wynton Marsalis Jazz traveled […]
When Harry Met Ella
Harry Connick, Jr. was presented with the Ella Fitzgerald award last month at the Festival International de Jazz de Montreal, but the self-effacing vocalist wasn’t sure he deserved it. “I […]
Brian Stoltz, Up All Night (Long Overdue Records)
Rock music’s formal culture has always been defined by recordings, the manifestation of its historic standing in the worlds of fashion and kinetic art. But rock’s myth, from the forbidden […]
