Issue Articles
Tulane University Constructs Big Chief’s Abode
An avid student of French existentialism and a serious collector of modern jazz LPs, Donald Harrison Sr. was not your average Mardi Gras Indian Big Chief. One of the real-life […]
Various Artists, En Français: Cajun ’n’ Creole Rock ’n’ Roll Vol. 2 (Bayou Teche Brewing Co)
Readers who may have missed the first volume of En Français: Cajun ’n’ Creole Rock ’n’ Roll are in for a real treat this year. According to Louis Michot, bandleader, […]
Preservation Hall Jazz Band, The Preservation Hall 50th Anniversary Collection (Sony Legacy)
Ever since taking the reins of operating Preservation Hall — New Orleans’ shrine to the sources of music that coalesced into the earliest form of jazz — artistic director Ben […]
Chris Thomas King, Bona Fide (21st Century Blues)
Bona Fide offers a glimpse of Chris Thomas King in full stride propelled by mid-career confidence, a genuinely inventive and compelling inheritor of the blues traditions whose surprisingly intimate performances […]
Maria Muldaur Latches onto Lizzie “Kid” Douglas (Memphis Minnie)
Maria Muldaur remembers precisely the moment that New Orleans native Lizzie “Kid” Douglas — better known by her stage name, Memphis Minnie — became a guiding light for both her […]
Preservation Hall West Opens in San Francisco
Ben Jaffe sits in the rear office behind Preservation Hall. The Hall’s director — and son of Allan and Sandra Jaffe — is looking out the window, past the courtyard, […]
Fesstoration: Tipitina’s to Rebuild Professor Longhair’s Home
In death, as in life, Professor Longhair remains a spirit whose individuality transcends even his everlasting, idiosyncratic contribution of “rumba boogie” to the incredibly rich legacy of New Orleans and […]
Ralston Crawford’s Classic Images
Ralston Crawford and Jazz — on display at the New Orleans Museum of Art now through Sunday, October 14 — contains a variety of classic New Orleans photographic images, a […]
Tourism Funding Should Include Tip Jar for Musicians
In just six weeks this past spring, the New Orleans music community demonstrated its post-Katrina vitality and proved its incalculable value as a tourist draw beyond even the glimmer of […]
Dr. Michael White, Adventures in New Orleans Jazz, Part 2 (Basin Street Records)
Part Two of Dr. White’s exhilarating and euphoric musical adventures, which have been not so much “in” New Orleans jazz as “with” it, display a distinctly domestic character, particularly in […]
