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Bob French
The Hackberry Ramblers: Fest Focus
Luderin Darbone and Edwin Duhon still remember the night in 1934 when the Hackberry Ramblers went electric. The problem until that time, explains Darbone, the 80-year-old fiddler and co-founder of […]
Night Crawling: Seeking Out the Best Music of the Jazz Fest Season After Dark
The following is a consolidated rundown of some of the best bets for nighttime musical experiences during the Jazz Fest. Quite frankly, it’s an embarrassing orgy of music. The only […]
Dr. John No Longer with Warner Brothers; Aaron Neville Embarks on The Grand Tour
DR. JOHN WITHOUT LABEL…After two critically-lauded albums—including last year’s ambitious Grammy-winning Goin’ Back to New Orleans—Dr. John and Warner Brothers Records have parted company. Besides Goin’ Back to New Orleans, […]
Tasty, Cold and Firm: Slurpin’ Up the Best Raw Oysters
The big question I always ponder about oysters is, what motivated the person who first picked up this rock-like thing from the bottom of some primordial lagoon and decided to […]
The Coolest of ’92
JUST TOO COOL Nine of our writers document their coolest musical experiences of ‘92 — album, concert, or other. For a non-writer perspective, we asked a few familiar faces to […]
A Different Shade of Blues
We call it “the blues”. It looks like the blues, and sometimes even sounds like the blues. But can the confluence of styles in New Orleans, the good time capital […]
George Buck: They Call Him Mr. Trad
George Buck oversees the world’s largest traditional jazz catalog from his Decatur Street sanctuary. New Orleans — the birthplace of jazz. Webster tells us it is “a kind of […]
Nevilles on the Air?
As far as record release parties go, you really can’t beat the one that ushered in the Neville Brothers’ Family Groove: the 360,000-attendee, media-saturated shindig that was the 1992 Jazz […]
Spotlight
Astral Project Anyone who has truly experienced an Astral Project performance knows the outer limits of music’s transportive powers. The Jazz Fest Astral journey departs from the Fair Grounds […]
The Real Roots
Between the strong lineups for Festival International de Louisiane and the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, 1992 is shaping up to be quite a year for lovers of African […]
