Offbeat Cover for December, 2010

December 2010 Contents

Cover Story

Dumpstaphunk Is All Ears

Features

A Dixieland Santa Claus: Louisiana Christmas Music

Kid Ory: The Permission Not Given

School’s Out for These UNO-Educated Jazz Musicians

BackTalk

The Radiators

Photo Op

Monk Boudreaux

OffBeat Eats

Dining Out: The Rib Room

Doctor’s Orders: Wines by New Orleans MDs

James Singleton Hits the Spot at Crescent Pie and Sausage Company

The Gravy: In the Kitchen with Theresa Andersson

Fresh

Chick Lit: Sean Yseult’s White Zombie Memoir

DesCours: Architecture in My Art

Louis Prima 100 Years Later

Madden 11 Predicts the Saints in December

Santa’s Got a Brand New Book

Trombone Shorty’s Red Hot

Reviews

Arson Anthem, Insecurity Notoriety (Housecore Records)

Bipolaroid, Illusion Fields (Independent)

By & By String Band, Little Darling Pal of Mine: Songs of the Carter Family, (Independent)

Cedric Watson et Bijou Creole, Creole Moon: Live From the Blue Moon (Valcour Records)

Down, Diary of a Mad Band CD/DVD (Independent)

Flow Tribe, Now Ya Know: Live at Tipitina’s (Independent)

Leroy Thomas, Jewel of the Bayou (Maison de Soul Records)

Los Po-Boy-Citos, Brand New Dance (Independent)

Mutemath, Armistice Live CD/DVD (Warner Bros Records)

Ray Charles, The Undiscovered Masters (Concord Records)

Tarik Hassan, Tarik Hassan (Independent)

The Jazz Passengers, Reunited (Justin Time Records)

The Local Skank, Collect All Five! (Independent)

The Professors of Pleasure, Volume Two (Independent)

Various Artists, Sehorn’s Soul Farm (Charly Records)

pLink Floyd, Nickels & Diamonds (Independent)

Bookmark

Sandy Warren, Art Blakey: Cookin’ and Jammin’—Recipes and Remembrances from a Jazz Life (Margaret Media)

Mojo Mouth

Preserve the Moment

Plan A: Upcoming Shows

Dâm-Funk at One Eyed Jacks Friday, December 17

Letters

December 2010 Letters