Offbeat Cover for December, 1994

December 1994 Contents

Cover Story

An OffBeat Interview with Wynton Marsalis

Features

Louisiana Music ’94: An Overview of the Year in CDs

Dis 'n' Dat

Aaron Neville’s Latest Soulful Christmas; Rads, Bluerunners, Wolfman Undergo Change

Bluesworthy

Crescent City Blues Club Newsletter December 1994

Crescent City Bounce

Jessie Hill, Professor Longhair Birthday Bashes; the Wolfman, Johnny Adams Reissued

Eye Music

Stephany Lyman’s Metal Disorder and George Dunbar’s Champagne-and Caviar Minimalism

Fat City

Diets Be Damned: Chowing Down at the Crescent City and Charlie’s Steak Houses

Feedback

Locals to Produce Spoken-Word Seven-Inch Vinyl; New Stumpgrinders, Phantoms, dB’s

Film & Video Bits

Interview with a Vampire, Exit to Eden, Pulp Fiction and Louisiana Film News

Street

Local Girl Mimi and Brownstone Sign with the King of Pop; Ricky B Goes Bounce

Strictly Jazz

Jazz for the Underage Crowd; A Swinging Christmas at the Orpheum

Ten West

Dennis McGee and Belton Richard Anthologized; New Chris Ardoin and Old Beau Jocque

Reviews

Butch Thompson, Yulestride (Daring)

Germaine Bazzle, Standing Ovation (AFO)

Noisecandy, Hope (St. Roch)

Papa Don Vappie’s New Orleans Jazz Band, A Christmas Present (Vappielle)

Solomon Burke, Live at the House of Blues (Black Top)

The Boondoggles, Every Dog Has Its Day (Gulf Shrimp)

Various Artists, Kwanzaa Music (Rounder)

Live Wire

Bob Dylan, House of Blues, November 12-13, 1994

Letters

Letters December 1994