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Jazz Fest: From “A” to “Z”
We’re raised not to act like know-it-alls, and nothing reminds you that you really don’t know it all like looking at the Jazz Fest cubes. No matter how much of […]
Susan Tedeschi, Back to the River (Verve Forecast)
Ever since her breakthrough debut, Just Won’t Burn, it was evident that Susan Tedeschi would become one of her generation’s preeminent blues artists. But it is on her sixth album, […]
Mardi Gras and Inspiration
I started working on the publication that would become OffBeat because I loved music, always have. I played instruments in the school band, and played guitar during the long-ago folk […]
Jazz Fest 2009 Schedule: Turning 40
For the first time, the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival has announced it schedule not just before Mardi Gras, but before Christmas. At a December 16 press conference, festival […]
Best of the Beat Heartbeat Award: Antoinette K-Doe
On a recent Tuesday morning, OffBeat’s Elsa Hahne visited Antoinette K-Doe at the Mother-in-Law Lounge as she cooked gumbo, red beans, jambalaya, stewed turkey, stuffing and baked macaroni for a […]
Jazz Fest Lineup Announcement Notes
UPDATE: Dec. 17 – A reader says Erykah Badu did play Jazz Fest 8 or so years ago. I thought so, but wasn’t sure.] The New Orleans Jazz and […]
Randy Newman, Harps and Angels (Nonesuch)
Bad news first: Randy Newman’s latest has only 30 minutes of new material. Perhaps Nonesuch, his record label, applied pressure to produce something new three years after signing him (his […]
Jazz Fest 101
“Dirt plus water equals mud. Okay, I already knew that. But now I really know it,” OffBeat contributor Brett Milano wrote. Other Jazz Fests have been adversely affected by bad […]
Amanda Shaw, Pretty Runs Out (Rounder)
Amanda Shaw declared in the title of her last CD that she’s not a bubblegum pop princess. So what exactly is she? A roots rocker? A Cajun artist? The next […]
Almost Everybody…
OffBeat started “Backtalk,” its monthly Q&A in January 1996, when Michael Tisserand interviewed BeauSoleil’s Michael Doucet with brothers Sid and Nathan Williams—the former, the proprietor of El-Sid-O’s; the latter, the […]
