Issue Articles
Marc Broussard: Oh My Soul
In 2005, Marc Broussard was fed up with the music industry and already sick of the idea that the apotheosis of contemporary popular music was somehow embodied by American Idol. […]
Rick Trolsen, Sunrise on Bourbon Street (Lort)
Roughly a century after its inception, traditional New Orleans jazz is many things to different people, ranging from a Parnassus of formal majesty to a ponderous street corner cliché. In […]
Alvin Batiste’s Last Class
On the morning of May 6, the last day of the 2007 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, the musicians’ grapevine was burning with the news of clarinetist and educator […]
Betty Shirley, Close Your Eyes (Independent)
Any aspiring jazz singer can get up in front of a competent trio and make their way through a familiar standard. What makes this kind of music so easy, though, […]
Billy Gibbons
“Get high everybody get high,” Billy Gibbons sang some 32 years ago when ZZ Top played New Orleans’ fabled music venue, The Warehouse, a night that was immortalized on the […]
Fest Focus: Big Al Carson
Alton “Big Al” Carson is one of the finest vocalists you’ll hear at Jazz Fest, but if you want to hear him in his element, you have to go to […]
Fest Focus: Henry Butler, New Orleans Social Club
When Harry Shearer was asked what he misses most about post-Katrina New Orleans, he answered in two words: Henry Butler. Butler is one of many of the city’s great musicians […]
Tom McDermott, Live in Paris (STR Digital)
The long standing ties between New Orleans and France were strengthened in the aftermath of the 2005 levee failure that destroyed most of the city. Many New Orleans musicians in […]
Memphis Slim & Buddy Guy, Southside Reunion (Maison de Blues)
There is something of the colonial administrator’s self congratulation at his understanding of native culture in these oddly configured reissues of American blues and zydeco originally recorded for the French […]
Clifton Chenier, Frenchin’ the Boogie (Maison de Blues)
There is something of the colonial administrator’s self congratulation at his understanding of native culture in these oddly configured reissues of American blues and zydeco originally recorded for the French […]
