Online News — Jazz Fest
Jazz Fest Focus: Gary Clark, Jr.
Are you experienced? In 1967, Jimi Hendrix posed this simple question, and from it, summoned up a fierce, reverberant squall that, four decades removed from his untimely passing, remains unanswered. […]
Jazz Fest Focus: Bombino
While “Desert Rock” as a genre term applies to the dense, high-decibel riffage of Mojave-dwellers Kyuss and Queens of the Stone Age, one could easily imagine an alternate universe where […]
Jazz Fest Focus: Sarah Jarosz
Sarah Jarosz turns 21 in late May, but that’s not obvious from her voice. This is not so hard to understand, as she has been singing since she was two. […]
Jazz Fest Focus: Geno Delafose
For the past two years, Kay Wright has chartered buses to New Orleans and Beaumont, Texas so dozens of fans can see Geno Delafose and French Rockin’ Boogie. Most of […]
Jazz Fest Focus: Brass Bed
2012 is the next in a series of theoretical breakout years for New Orleans-via-Lafayette indie rockers Brass Bed. That big pop hasn’t happened yet, despite two excellent LPs and a […]
Honey Island Swamp Band: Making Honey
Sunday, May 1, 2011 was a day for the Jazz Fest record books. As the sun ascended to its afternoon perch, a substantial crowd convened at the Fais Do-Do Stage. […]
Esperanza Spalding: When NPR is Not Enough
It was in July 2007, while at the Montreal Jazz Festival, that Esperanza Spalding bought her first electric bass. What surprised her was not so much the sound it provided […]
The New Generation of Mardi Gras Indians: Do Clothes Make the Man?
The rain is pouring down in a grey deluge on a Saturday afternoon in February, pooling so quickly on Louisiana Avenue that the street is filling up with water, turning […]
The Stooges Brass Band and Mannie Fresh in Los Angeles: Studio Kings
When the Stooges Brass Band rolled into Red Bull Studios Los Angeles with producer Mannie Fresh, it was a meeting of two titans of New Orleans street music. The Stooges […]
Jesse McBride: Other Men’s Blues
It’s contradictory, but pianist and bandleader Jesse McBride has a laid-back, intense air. He gives off a simultaneous vibe of “Whatever happens, happens” and “I’m going to make sure what […]
