Blogs
Tipitina’s: As It Should and Will Be
Tipitina’s New Orleans is now owned by the band Galactic.
Guest Blog: Trombone Shorty’s Voodoo Threauxdown is not to be missed
From the first note played, New Breed Brass Band comes shining through with great horns and drums. They are well seasoned musicians, disciplined and professional. Preservation Jazz Hall Band definitely […]
Most of My Favorite Local Records of 2012
Reading the lists and catching some flak made me itch to put my own preferences down. What follows is necessarily incomplete because I can’t even pretend to listen to everything […]
Shorty vs. Prince in Montreal
The Montreal International Jazz Festival offers a broad palette of styles covering disparate jazz formats, and, like the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival and most other “jazz” festivals in […]
Hangout Day 3: Everybody Wants to See Paul Simon
It amazed me what a small space the Hangout Music Festival in Gulf Shores, Alabama was held in. The two main stages faced other across a stretch of beach that […]
Image Counts
I’m writing a review of the excellent new Galactic album at the moment, and it includes bounce artists Cheeky Blakk, Big Freedia, Katey Red and Sissy Nobby. It’s ironic (to […]
