Issue Articles
November 2015 Letters to OffBeat Magazine
UNFAIR FIGHT The following is in response to Jan Ramsey’s blog post, “New Orleans Means Music,” on OffBeat.com, wherein she talks about the noise ordinance and recommends that venues keep […]
October 2015 Letters to OffBeat Magazine
LENNY MCDANIEL I wanted to thank you [Joseph Irrera] for the kind and thoughtful obit you wrote on the passing of my friend Lenny McDaniel [August 2015]. Lenny was an […]
September 2015 Letters to OffBeat Magazine
KATRINA The follow letters are in response to Jan Ramsey’s Blog post “Hurricane Katrina is Coming… Back” (August 6, 2015) wherein she indicates that “it’s like reliving the horror, the […]
August 2015 Letters to OffBeat Magazine
MORE VOLUME Nowhere is [amplified sound] more an issue than in New Orleans where set after set of great music is sabotaged by sound men with hearing aids (to quote […]
July 2015 Letters to OffBeat Magazine
IRVIN MAYFIELD I hope in the future you don’t support seemingly corrupt and arrogant musicians like Irvin Mayfield. In your April cover story Jennifer Odell wrote, “writer David Hammer, Mayfield […]
June 2015 Letters to OffBeat Magazine
JAZZ FEST The following are in response to Jan Ramsey’s Blog “The Changing Face of Jazz Fest.” I believe that the Fest has lost its way. I know the reasoning […]
May 2015 Letters to OffBeat Magazine
MUSIC UPTOWN The following is in response to Jan Ramsey’s blog “Music Uptown and Downtown” wherein she suggests that it seems that the music scene uptown is shriveling away. Good […]
May 2015 Letters to OffBeat Magazine
The following is in response to Jan Ramsey’s blog “Are More Visitors Really What We Need?,” wherein she suggests, “Maybe we should think more about the quality of visitors and […]
April 2015 Letters to OffBeat Magazine
MUSIC MUSEUM Just want you [Jan Ramsey] to know your article is spot on! [Mojo Mouth: Are we missing a great opportunity? March 2015, wherein she advocates a music museum […]
March 2015 Letters to OffBeat Magazine
MUSIC IN MID-CITY In a letter to the editor, someone suggested that the clubs pipe out the greatest music station in the world, WWOZ. I chuckled. If you venture out […]
