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Fifteen Years of OffBeat: 1988-2002
A trip through OffBeat’s back pages, or as Louis Armstrong once sang: “All that meat and no potatoes!” For those readers with scant knowledge of New Orleans music and Louisiana […]
The Dirty Dozen Brass Band
Gregory Davis distinctly remembers a comment made to him 25 years ago when the Dirty Dozen Brass Band was in its infancy. On hearing the unconventional take the ensemble applied […]
Jon Cleary and the Absolute Monster Gentlemen: More Hipper Than What You Got
There are few things more intimidating than opening a door and facing the giant bulk of Derwin “Big D” Perkins. I find myself contemplating this reality as I enter the […]
Fest Focus: The Gospel Tent
My motto, “When in doubt, go to the Gospel Tent” has proved itself to be right on for the last 25 years. The reason is simple; the gospel tent always […]
Jazz Fest 2001 Redux
ARMSTRONG EVERYWHERE Armstrong—Armstrong everywhere! It was beautiful finally to see and hear everyone playing Pops in all his incarnations and ideas. He was the best and most influential musician of […]
Letters May 2001
MISPLACED CAJUN PRIDE? With regard to the epithet “coonass” used in the recent article [OffBeat, February 2001] “Coonass Mardi Gras,” we submit to you the following: 1. Complaint The most […]
Got Rice?
In the multi-cultural gumbo that is Jazz Fest, the blues are like rice; it’s never the main dish, but it’s present in absolutely everything. There’s no Blues Tent or Blues […]
John Boutte and ¡Cubanismo!
On Mardi Gras Mambo, Latin dance band ¡Cubanismo! joins John Boutte and top-shelf Crescent City musicians to create a totally authentic, Havana-New Orleans, second line revue. In John Boutté’s French […]
Balfa Toujours
In 1964, at the Newport Folk Festival, Cajun guitarist Dewey Balfa exposed the world to music that was all but unknown outside of Louisiana. Today, Dewey’s daughter Christine and her […]
