Issue Articles
Fest Focus 2014: Chegadão
Most North American musicians, if they play Brazilian music at all, dabble with the bossa nova of Antonio Carlos Jobim and don’t dig much deeper. It takes something special, a […]
Cindy Scott, Historia (Catahoula Records)
I’ve called Cindy Scott’s debut album, Major to Minor, my favorite album by a local female singer. Her follow-up, Let the Devil Take Tomorrow, kept up her high standards. Historia, […]
Steve Pistorius and Friends, New Orleans Shuffle (Independent)
This album, the product of a New Orleanian, a Swede, a Canadian and a Brit, is fine testimony to the power of New Orleans jazz to inspire. It is anchored […]
Barry Cuda, New World Blues Roots (Barry Cuda Music)
Pianist Barry Cuda is a longtime fixture on the Key West scene and has pounded out thousands of gigs at Sloppy Joe’s and the like. Lately his career has taken […]
Jan Luley, Blues Gumbo (Luley Music Records)
Forty years ago, inspired in part by New Orleans émigré Champion Jack Dupree, a whole school of German boogie-woogie piano players was birthed: Axel Zwingenberger, Vince Weber, Joja Wendt (a […]
Harry Shearer Takes a Hint
Comedians have been effective political commentators ever since Aristophanes used his wit to satirize the foibles of the ancient Greeks. Harry Shearer has a long history as a satirist dating […]
Keith Jarrett, Rio (ECM Records)
Keith Jarrett has been putting out solo piano records for 40 years now. I’ve tried to keep up with his vast output over the years, and own maybe 15 of […]
James Booker, The Piano Prince of New Orleans (Black Sun Music)
reviewed together with James Booker’s Blues & Ragtime from New Orleans. There are around 15 James Booker albums on the market, but in fact the Piano Prince released only five […]
James Booker, Blues and Ragtime from New Orleans (Black Sun Music)
reviewed together with James Booker’s The Piano Prince of New Orleans. There are around 15 James Booker albums on the market, but in fact the Piano Prince released only five […]
Kathleen Lee, Coming Up For Air (MTT Records)
Many of us in New Orleans have listened to Kathleen Lee’s swing music show on WWOZ for years. What a nice surprise, then, for us to hear her sing on […]
