Issue Articles
Tab Benoit: Born on the Bayou
Tab Benoit is Houma’s top music export. Maybe one day the blues guitarist will believe that. From the crest of the Prospect Street Overpass on the way into Houma, […]
Mark Whitfield Finds His Way Home
After starting his career in New York and experimenting with the dreaded “instrumental pop,” the guitarist settled in Baton Rouge and took a 7th Avenue stroll back to clean, straight-ahead jazz. […]
Frankie Ford: Ooh-Wee Baby!
Someone should tell Frankie Ford he doesn’t need to work this hard. On a Sunday evening in July, Ford’s big black Lincoln Town Car—the one with the “ooh-wee” personalized license […]
Percy Humphrey (1905-1995)
He was the last of the legendary Humphrey Brothers, the unflappable pair who stared into the faces of the hundreds of thousands of traditional jazz fans that passed through Preservation […]
Todd Westbrook, By the Quarter Moon’s Light (Westco)
Todd Westbrook’s name is the only one on the cover of By the Quarter Moon’s Light, the Baton Rouge singer’s second CD, but the recording comes across more like a […]
Tipitina’s on the Block but Still Open; Cutting Edge Conference to Open August 30th
A front-page story In the Times-Picayune about Tipitina’s being up for sale triggered all manner of speculation about the club’s Immediate future and what should be done with It (see […]
Olympia Brass Band, New Orleans Jazz Preservation (Mardi Gras)
No one should ever mistake the Olympia Brass Band for the ReBirth or Soul Rebels brass bands. Besides obvious differences in age, the two camps stand at opposite ends of […]
