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Letters March 1998
Doc Cheatham’s Daughter Says Thanks What a tremendous compliment to the lifetime achievements of my father that his last CD recording [Doc Cheatham and Nicholas Payton, Verve Records] was […]
The Best Music of 1997
Whether it was a show, a CD or a simple moment, our staff and a host of others looked back at their musical calendars and culled the best of 1997. […]
1997: CD Year in Review
Once again it’s time for our panel of experts to gather and give out the grades to the latest batch of Louisiana releases. 1997 marked a very good year for […]
Roland Guerin, The Winds of the New Land (Turnipseed Music)
With this live recording from Sung Harbor in April ’97, the curtain rises on 28 year old bassist Roland Guerin’s ability to compose acoustic modern jazz and lead an all-star […]
Jazz Poetry Cutting Contest & Mose Allison at Snug
“Good Morning, daddy! Ain’t you heard The boogie-woogie rumble Of a dream deferred?” – Dream Boogie, Langston Hughes On Sunday, November 9th at 9p.m., poets, scholars, producers, WWOZ ODJs and […]
Sonny Rollins: Saxophone Colossus
On October 18th, House of Blues welcomes Theodore Walter “Sonny” Rollins, widely regarded as the greatest living jazz soloist. Born on September 7, 1930 in New York City, Rollins grew […]
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 […]
Loren Pickford
I was in Belgium one night, working at a place called Epistrophe …I was up in the hotd room, watching a rain on Brussels, and I swear, to God, a […]
Meet Jerry Brock: A Man in Demand
Just try finding someone more involved in and essential to the New Orleans music scene than Jerry Brock. Before moving to New Orleans nearly 20 years ago to start a […]
Terence Blanchard
A very ordinary looking Fed-ex parcel stood on the porch of Terence Blanchard’s lovely Garden District home on a bright, unusually mild June morning. I soon discovered, however, upon handing […]
