Offbeat Cover for January, 2011

January 2011 Contents

Cover Story

Best of the Beat Lifetime Achievement in Music Award: Dave Bartholomew

Features

Best of the Beat Award in Music Education: Derrick Tabb and the Roots of Music

Best of the Beat Heartbeat Award: HBO’s Treme

Best of the Beat Music Business Award: Johnny Palazzotto

Los Po-Boy-Citos: Life After Mash-Up

The Best Louisiana Albums of 2010

The Bourbon Street Blues: Interview with Earl Bernhardt

The Noise Goes on Forever: A History of New Orleans Noise Ordinances

The Writing in the Wall: Chinese Drywall in the Musicians’ Village

BackTalk

Delfeayo Marsalis

Photo Op

Earl King

OffBeat Eats

Dining Out: Madrid

Dining Underground in New Orleans

Sasha Masakowski Hits the Spot at Boucherie

The Gravy: In the Kitchen with Martin Krusche

Fresh

Jazz Educators Unite for JEN Conference

Madden on the Saints in the Playoffs

New Orleans Jazz Orchestra at Home

Off to See the Wizard World New Orleans Comic-Con

Robert Fogarty and Evacuteer.org Go for Gold

Obituaries

Walt Boatner: Obituary

Reviews

Archie Shepp, The New York Contemporary Five (Delmark Records)

Caligula, Divine Madness (Krycek Entertainment)

Curren$y, Pilot Talk II (Roc-A-Fella/DD172 Records)

Daria Dzurik, Calliope (Independent)

Jerry Lee Lewis, Mean Old Man [Deluxe Edition] (Verve Forecast Records)

Johnny Wiggs, “Congo Square” and Other Vintage Material (GHB Records)

Kidd Jordan and Joel Futterman, Interaction (Independent)

Kourtney Heart, Eye Dee Kay (D.E.O. Recordings)

LakeSide Gamblers, La Valse d’Hommage (Salty Bayou Records)

Neslort, Mystical Scam (Lort/Threadhead Records)

Plunge, Tin Fish Tango (Immersion Records)

Rebirth Brass Band & Slow Drag Productions, SDP Presents ReBirth ReVisited (Slow Drag Productions)

Ronnie Earl and the Broadcasters, Spread the Love (Stony Plain Records)

Sam Rey, Sam Rey EP (Independent)

Thomas Jefferson, With the New Orleans Creole Jazz Band and Monk Hazel’s Band (GHB Records)

Mojo Mouth

Songs from the Rut

Live Wire

I Love the ’80s (Minus VH-1)

Plan A: Upcoming Shows

Les Pêcheurs de Perles “The Pearl Fishers”

Letters

January 2011 Letters