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Hurricane Ida Did Lasting Damage to New Orleans Musical History
Hurricane Ida destroyed the fragile Karnofsky Tailor Shop on South Rampart Street, but it’s also had a lasting impact on other sites that are integral to New Orleans’ connection to the history of jazz.
Scandinavian Jazz Church Revival
Do you know anything about Scandinavia? Did you know they are crazy in love with New Orleans jazz? Americans know that Scandinavia (Norway, Sweden, Denmark and sometimes Finland and Iceland) […]
Is Jazz The Brand
As readers of OffBeat, OffBeat.com and the Weekly Beat know, New Orleans is a musical city. But—let’s say the CVB was going to use music to “brand” the city, what […]
Jazz Comes Home to South Rampart Street
New Orleans still doesn’t have its music museum. Over the weekend the Times-Pic reported that a 26,000-square foot space that’s literally within the Saenger Theatre redevelopment on Canal Street is […]
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 […]
