Issue Articles
Fest Focus: Wardell Quezergue
There isn’t a musical instrument in sight in Wardell Quezergue’s living room. The city’s most in-demand arranger works on a card table filled with a dozen pencils, a pencil sharpener […]
Various Artists, Keys to the Crescent City (Rounder Records)
Keys to the Crescent City is an all-star piano revue that also serves as a Rounder sampler, with Charles Brown, Eddie Bo, Willie Tee and Art Neville. All have been […]
Toward the Essential New Orleans Collection
In a place where music means so much—and where so much of it has been recorded—what visitor or resident hasn’t entertained the idea of building an essential New Orleans record […]
Ellis Marsalis Interview
It’s easy to understand why Ellis Marsalis seems almost gratified by something his students almost take for granted. “Growing up in New Orleans, there was always some opposition, especially at […]
