April 2017
Cover Story
- Aaron Neville: From the Calliope to the Farm
Environmentally and culturally, New Orleans’ Calliope Projects stood a long way from a 12-acre farm in New York State. Yet Aaron…
Features
- French Quarter Festival from A to Z: Your guide to every act at this year's FQF
French Quarter Fest 2017 will feature more than 1,700 local artists on 24 stages spread throughout the Quarter. Our comprehensive and… - Big Bites of Street Culture: Photographer Michelle Elmore’s three new books
There’s a black and white photo of Glen David Andrews, clad in a crisp suit and brass band hat, hanging in… - High Society: English import Andrew Hall celebrates 50 years of his Society Brass Band
Andrew Hall met David Bowie on just one occasion. “Wild, that was,” says Hall, sharing with textbook British dry wit the… - Next Level: Three daughters from three iconic fathers now set their own stage
New Orleans is known for its great musical families and jazz lineages where music is a craft, a business and a… - Booking It: French Quarter Fest's Greg Schatz likes the crowd to be surprised
Local musicians are rarely given any real power or influence. Musicians generally don’t own nightclubs. Music journalists don’t often make music…
BackTalk
- Backtalk: Alynda Lee Segarra (of Hurray for the Riff Raff)
Hurray for the Riff Raff’s new studio record, The Navigator, is a narrative concept album telling the story of a character,…
Fresh
- My Music: Tim Robertson
“Some people know me only from the Dirty Mouth days. Some people might know me from the concert music, some from… - DumbSmart Industries: Local creatives form film company
“We had been working on stories before Nick had equipment,” New Orleans musician and actor Derrick Freeman explains of video/film collective… - Timeless Tradition: Calvin Johnson's Pres Hall Series
“One of his mantras that he would always say to me,” Calvin Johnson Jr. recalls of his uncle—the late, great jazzman… - Music Maker Relief Foundation gives $62,000 to Louisiana musicians
Seven months after unprecedented rainfall flooded Southeast Louisiana, musicians across the state are still struggling to get back on their feet,… - Soundcheck: Five Questions with artist and musician Tony Green
What is it about Django Reinhardt’s guitar playing that so hooked you as a young musician? Starting off as a teenager,…
Dining Out
- Dining Out: Nine Roses Cafe
What do Cruel Intentions 2, Saved by the Bell: The College Years, and The Pauly D Project all have in common?…
In The Spirit
- In The Spirit: Kirk Estopinal at Cafe Henri
“I’ve been, like, in the ‘limelight’ of mixology for 12 years. But I’ve been in the service industry my entire life.…
Letters
- Letters to the Editor
Billie Davies Billie Davies and her team of jazztronauts lace together a bittersweet story of adventure on the boulevard of broken…
Mojo Mouth
- French Quarter Festivals, Inc. names a new Executive Director
The French Quarter Festival is now in its fourth decade. FQF started many years after the Jazz Fest, with none of…
Photo Op
- Photo Op: Christopher Briscoe captures Salvador Giardina's instrument workshop
My feet were blistered and aching after two weeks of nonstop walking through the French Quarter. It was the last day…
The Spot
- Lawrence Cotton hits the Spot
What are you having? My favorite. Meatballs and spaghetti. On a po-boy?! No, I’m getting a plate! Wednesdays at Guy’s…
Reviews
- The Revealers, "One World" (Independent)
I’ve always had a soft spot for the Revealers’ greatest hit, “The Sound of That”: With its infectious funk/reggae groove, uplifting… - Smoking Time Jazz Club, "Ain’t We Fortunate" (Independent)
The last decade has seen a new bounty of interesting young trad jazz bands on Frenchmen Street. Old-timers like the Jazz… - Seva Venet, "New Orleans Banjo Vol. I: Musieu Bainjo” (Independent)
On New Orleans Banjo Vol. I: “Musieu Bainjo,” fretted instrument man Seva Venet pays tribute to the instrument not only by… - Chris Thile & Brad Mehldau, "Chris Thile & Brad Mehldau" (Nonesuch)
The mix of an American vernacular string master with a jazz-pop pianist now is its own genre, apparently. It started with… - The Lonesome Doves, "Waiting for Stars" (Independent)
Can you really use one more downcast country-folk album with funereal slow tempos, standup bass, and a haunted-sounding female singer? If… - Elvin Bishop, "Big Fun Trio" (Alligator Records)
Damn, here’s another really top-notch record from Elvin Bishop. How does he do it? Very few blues musicians can turn out… - Truckstop Honeymoon, "Big Things and Little Things" (Squirrel Records)
Since Truckstop Honeymoon’s Mike and Katie West have always toured with their brood in tow, it only made sense to have… - Tim Laughlin, "The Trio Sessions, Vol. 2" (Gentilly Records)
Over a 25-year recording career, Tim Laughlin’s CDs have covered Jelly Roll Morton and Bix Beiderbecke with the Dukes of Dixieland,… - Banu Gibson, "By Myself" (Swing Out)
Banu Gibson continues to demonstrate her love of standards from the ’30s and ’40s on her latest release, By Myself, on… - Chloe Feoranzo and Tom McDermott, "Zeppelins Made to Order" (Rabadash Records)
Tom McDermott is an uncharacteristic New Orleans pianist. The sheer virtuosity that epitomizes New Orleans “professors” from Jelly Roll Morton to…
