Issue Articles
Looking In the Score: Angela Hewitt finds what the composer has left us
World-renowned classical pianist Angela Hewitt was born in Canada. She began her piano studies at age 3 and went on to study at Toronto’s Royal Conservatory of Music. She has […]
Bob Malone, Mojo Deluxe (Delta Moon Records); Aaron West, 504 Soul (Independent)
Living in New Orleans one has regular opportunities to meet international players making a pilgrimage. Some visit to slip in the scene for a while and cop a gig if […]
Steve Pistorius Trio, Under the Creole Moon (GHB Records)
The pianist Steve Pistorius, a New Orleans native, is an encyclopedia of early New Orleans jazz. He knows the works of the obvious masters—Morton, Armstrong, Bechet—inside out, but also delves […]
Tubaluba, Champagne Sunday (Independent)
As locals may or may not know, NOLA’s brass bands have inspired similar groups around the world (including the fine Mama Dig Down from Madison, Wisconsin, and Japan’s Black Bottom […]
Seva Venet, Revisiting New Orleans String Bands: 1880-1949 (Threadhead Records)
In addition to playing hundreds of gigs in his 15 years in the Crescent City, guitarist/banjoist Seva Venet has done some serious study of the early string bands of New […]
Chris Thile & Edgar Meyer, Bass and Mandolin (Nonesuch Records)
At the top of the heap of the “Americana” genre are some genuine stars: banjoist Bela Fleck and fiddler Mark O’Connor in particular. Equally as eminent on their instruments are […]
Richard “Piano” Scott, Jambalaya Town (Independent)
Richard Scott is one of the freaks of the New Orleans trad-jazz scene. He romps on the piano, is the trombonist with the Dukes of Dixieland, and is probably the […]
Henry Butler Steven Bernstein & the Hot 9, Viper’s Drag (Impulse)
Henry Butler is an unquestioned virtuoso, the player who’s pushed the New Orleans piano sound forward the last 30 years. Like James Booker or Art Tatum, he needs no accompaniment […]
Charlie Dennard, From Brazil to New Orleans (Independent)
Ex-New Orleanian Charlie Dennard has toured the world constantly as a keyboardist since 2002 and later on as the musical director for Cirque du Soleil. It’s not surprising that someone […]
Dexter Payne Quartet + 1, Prá Você (Dexofon Records)
Dexter Payne is a clarinetist from Boulder, Colorado, and his Prá Você is proof that Brazilian music can flourish in the most unlikely places. There are no Brazilians on this […]
