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Nicholas Payton: Reinventing the Tradition
Steeped in the legacy of New Orleans music, Nicholas Payton comes of age with a new generation’s vision for the future. “I wanted to do something more personal than anything […]
Letters October 1999
TEAR DOWN THE CATHEDRAL It seems that after nearly two hundred years of squabbling about musicians interrupting church services at St. Louis Cathedral and disturbing the peace of residents around […]
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 […]
Nothing’s Changed That Much… R&B Soon Gone?… ‘Bye To Lo
It’s amazing, what you find when you go through your old files. Recently, I went through every file I had in my office in my (periodic) attempt at organization. Boy, […]
New Leviathan Oriental Fox-Trot Orchestra
From the Orient to New Orleans: Over the last 27 years, the 18-piece New Leviathan Oriental Fox-Trot Orchestra has become one of the most dedicated and provocative champions of traditional […]
100: The 100 Essential Louisiana CDs, Part 9
In late 1997, the Offbeat staff began developing the list of the 100 Essential Louisiana CDs. Our goal was to pick the 100 compact discs that, Individually, represented influential and/or […]
BackTalk: George Wein
If you’re lucky enough to be at the Fair Grounds this year on the first Friday, you can see and hear one of those musicians, under the billing of George […]
Zydeco!
A new collaboration by photographer Rick Olivier and journalist/musician Ben Sandmel, Published by the University Press of Mississippi covers the musical phenomenon of zydeco. From Creole folk roots to the […]
Letters April 1999
“Teedy’s” Mama says Thanks As we all know, if we want it to be known, we should “put it in the paper,” and this is the one to send it […]
100: The 100 Essential Louisiana CDs, Part 7
In late 1997, the Offbeat staff began developing the list of the 100 Essential Louisiana CDs. Our goal was to pick the 100 compact discs that, Individually, represented influential and/or […]
