Blogs
How Ironic
When the last mayoral race took place, OffBeat Magazine, the Loyola Music Business Studies program and MusicSwingsVotes.org and several concerned members of the music community, including Reid Wick of the […]
Killing the Goose
Front page of the Times-Pic (counting down to semi-oblivion) today: “Live music permit crackdown unplugs two popular bars.” The Circle Bar on St. Charles Avenue and Siberia on St. Claude […]
Satchmo Summerfest: Much More Than I’ll Ever Know
I grew up believing that Louis Armstrong was born on the Fourth of July in the year 1900. I always thought it was appropriate for the great, American cultural hero […]
Satchmo and Big Ideas
Okay, I know I’m supposed to be a music nerd, but I’m less of a nerd than a fan. Music moves me. I don’t try to analyze it too much, […]
End of an Era: Reflections on the Passing of Uncle Lionel
Now that Uncle Lionel is in the ground I feel like I can finally talk about an issue that disturbed me greatly during the roughly two weeks of celebrations, some […]
Times They Are A-Changin’
I’m working late, and the music is on: one of my favorite things to do is to work on graphic stuff, write and research when everyone’s left the office and […]
Uncle Lionel Batiste Funeral Arrangements
“Uncle” Lionel Batiste‘s funeral arrangements have been announced by his family. Mr. Batiste died earlier this week, and will be sadly missed by the New Orleans music community and his […]
The First Heroine of Louisiana Music
I can’t remember when I first met Maggie Warwick, but it was probably around 1990, when I served on the advisory board of the Louisiana Music Commission, and she was […]
Uncle Lionel Batiste: February 1, 1931 – July 8, 2012
Of all the colorful char-actors who’ve populated the streets of New Orleans over the years, Uncle Lionel Batiste takes the cake. Uncle Lionel patrolled the banquette along lower Decatur and […]
Open Letter to Jazz Journalists of New Orleans
Back in 1986 when my book The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide was released, music journalism was an entirely different phenomenon than it is today. Jazz critics had built a firewall […]
