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The New Years Dilemma & A Stellar “Superjam”
So, where will you be? Soon, even the most stalwart resistors of all hype millennial will be forced to answer this daunting New Year’s Eve question. Assuming you’re not one […]
New Venue: Sweet Lorraine’s
There’s much for jazz fans in New Orleans to look forward to in September. Not only is there the highly anticipated weekend of the 24th and 25th, when Gilberto Gil […]
Cajun, Not Crossover
"I don’t have any gold records on my wall, but I’m proud of my music," said one of New Orleans’ underrated musical treasures, Bruce Daigrepont. Daigrepont’s Sunday Fais Do Do […]
Adonis Rose
Drummer Adonis Rose, born in 1975 in New Orleans, is at the vanguard of the city’s modern jazz scene, performing in trumpeter Nicholas Payton‘s band and leading his own ensemble. […]
Louisiana Music “Storms” Montreal Jazz Festival
"Let it rain, let it storm!" This was the chant led by The Original Pin Stripe Brass Band as drops began to fall on the elated crowd jamming the street. […]
100: The 100 Essential Louisiana CDs: A Roundup
One evening in 1998, OffBeat’s Managing Editor Joseph Irrera was perusing an article in a classical music magazine. The subject of the article was the formulation of a basic library […]
IAJE Conference Coming To N.O., Quintology & New World Funk Ensemble
The International Association of Jazz Educators (IAJE) will hold its 27th conference in New Orleans next year, January 12-15, at The Hyatt Regency Hotel and The Louisiana Superdome. Recognized as […]
Indie-Jazz Labels Blossom & The “Can’t Miss” List
As we enter into the last Jazz Fest of the twentieth century, it is impossible not to think of New Orleans one hundred years ago, when the city was nine […]
Jazz Fest, from “A” to “Z”
A Acoustic Swiftness, SAT 4/24, LAGN, 3:10, largely acoustic guitar group that plays snazzy Latino riffs with style. Adelia, Adelia The Storyteller, SAT 4/24, KIDS, 1:30, Engaging storytelling from […]
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 […]
