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Whither Jazzfest? A Look Back at the Origins of the World’s Most Successful Music Festival and Its Impact on New Orleans’ Culture
Every spring for nearly one third of the 20th century, New Orleans has celebrated the music and culture of this region. What started off as a small gathering in Congo […]
Jazz Fest: A Decade of Delights
New Orleans lives for its music, never more dramatically than the two weekends of sustained merrymaking that constitute the New OrIeans Jazz and Heritage Festival. Spring is full swing, magnolias […]
Blues Bests at The Fest
Ernie K-Doe may have only been half-serious when he uttered his now-famous remark, ”I’m not sure, but I’m almost positive that all music came from New Orleans,” but some-folks take […]
An Original Music Festival, New Michael Ray CD, Monkey Hill, Nine Mile Music & A Freebie from the Philharmonic
The first annual Louisiana Original Music Festival will be held on October 24 at the Plantation Inn (10330 Airline Highway). Festival promoters are now soliciting submissions from songwriters, bands, singer/solo […]
Best and Worst of Jazz Fest 1998, The Fans’ Perspective
Once again this year, the Internet and, especially, the World Wide Web proved an invaluable tool for Jazz Fest visitors as well as an open forum for music fans to […]
Jazz Fest ’98: Our Annual Review
Our baby done grown up! The Jazz and Heritage Festival is the world’s now, it ain’t ours no more. In looking back at this year’s record-breaking festival, our columnists and […]
Fest Feedback, Take Two
What a topic this Jazz Fest booking question is. After posting the question, “What do you think about this year’s Jazz Fest line-up” to our Web site, our mailbox has […]
The Best & Worst of Jazz Fest ’97
What a difference a week makes. In less time than it took for God to create the universe, the Jazz Fest went from bust to boom. The rains came but […]
The Best and Worst of Jazz Fest ’96
In still another record-breaking year at Jazz Fest, we were able to (1) Withstand the onslaught of Phish fans who crowded into the city and onto the Fair Grounds to […]
Rethinking the Roots of Jazz
For many years a debate percolated among writers and historians about the origins of jazz: Did America’s “native art form” truly arise from New Orleans? The late Leonard Feather, and […]
