Offbeat Cover for May, 2011

May 2011 Contents

Features

Don’t Mess with Irma Thomas

Getting Crafty at Jazz Fest

Jazz Fest A-Z Schedule & Guide

Jazz Fest Focus: Alvin Youngblood Hart

Jazz Fest Focus: Anat Cohen

Jazz Fest Focus: Banu Gibson

Jazz Fest Focus: Henry Gray

Jazz Fest Focus: Joe Hall

Jazz Fest Focus: Johnny Sansone

Jazz Fest Focus: Michael Franti

Jazz Fest Focus: Mitch Woods

Jazz Fest Focus: Ms. Lauryn Hill

Jazz Fest Focus: Yvette Landry

Jimmy Buffett on Bourbon Street

RAM of Haiti: A Leaf Too Far

School Days: Jazz Alumni of NOCCA

Soul Rebels in Action

Stairway to Bourbon Street: Led Zeppelin in New Orleans

The Radiators: Gone Fishin’

The Rosemont Records Story

The Wild Magnolias and a Magic Handa Wanda

Tom Sancton, Meet Tom Sancton

BackTalk

Sonny Rollins

Photo Op

Big Chief Al Morris

OffBeat Eats

Blake Quick of Flow Tribe Hits the Spot at Riccobono’s Panola St. Cafe

Dining Out: Café Degas

Jazz Fest Seafood One Year After the Oil Spill

The Gravy: In the Kitchen with Barbara Menendez

Fresh

Glen David Andrews and the Healing Power of Horns

Monk Institute Goes and Stays

Quintron’s Exile in City Park

The Art in the Hall

Reviews

Amédé Ardoin, Mama, I’ll Be Long Gone: The Complete Recordings of Amédé Ardoin (Tompkins Square Records)

Dee-1, I Hope They Hear Me Vol. 2 (mixtape)

Dirty Bourbon River Show, Volume Two (Independent)

Frederick “Shep” Sheppard, Habari Gani (Independent)

Galactic, The Other Side of Midnight: Live in New Orleans (Anti- Records)

Garage a Trois, Always Be Happy, But Stay Evil (Royal Potato Family Records)

Gravy, The Hard Way (Gravy and Blue Eyed Dog Records)

Irvin Mayfield, A Love Letter to New Orleans (Basin Street Records)

J. the Savage, Very Same Dream (Independent)

Jamie Bergeron & the Kickin’ Cajuns, Your New CD (KC Entertainment)

Jamie Hayes, Signatures (Pussy Cat Records)

Jeffery Broussard and the Creole Cowboys, Return of the Creole (Maison de Soul Records)

Jesse Legé, Joel Savoy and the Cajun Country Revival, The Right Combination (Valcour Records)

Kelcy Mae, Pennies in Hand (Parish Road Records)

Lynn Drury, Sugar on the Floor (Old Shoes Records)

Marcia Ball, Roadside Attractions (Alligator Records)

New Orleans Moonshiners, Frenchmen St. Parade (Independent)

Quintron, Sucre du Sauvage (Goner Records)

Sasha Masakowski and Musical Playground, Wishes (Hypersoul Records)

Tab Benoit, Medicine (Telarc Records)

Tim Laughlin featuring Connie Jones, If Dreams Come True (Gentilly Records)

Tom Fitzpatrick, Chillin’ at the Point (Immersion Records)

Tom McDermott and Evan Christopher, Almost Native (Threadhead Records)

Tuba Skinny, Garbage Man (Independent)

Bookmark

Marie-Dominique Verdier, New Orleans Walls: Still Standing (First Light Press)

Mojo Mouth

Unleash Your Fun Side

Plan A: Upcoming Shows

Junip at Republic, May 12

Letters

May 2011 Letters