Offbeat Cover for August, 2011

August 2011 Contents

Cover Story

The Hot 8 Brass Band: Home in My Horn

Features

Déjà Davis Rogan

Locking Horns: When Miles Davis Met Wynton Marsalis

Man Signs Dog: Jimi Hendrix in New Orleans

Satchmo SummerFest: All Things Armstrong

The New Orleans Moonshiners: The Many Moons of Frenchmen Street

BackTalk

Treme Bloggers

Photo Op

Miss Pussycat

OffBeat Eats

Dining Out: Hansen’s Sno-Bliz

Sophie Lee Hits the Spot at Stein’s Market and Deli

The Gravy: In the Kitchen with George Schmidt

Fresh

Groove Interrupted by Keith Spera: Renew, Regroove

Mardi Gras Indian Hall of Fame: Feathers in Their Caps

Press Club Awards

Ricky Riccardi’s One Armstrong

Strutting with Satchmo Club Strut

The Grammys: Behind Closed Doors

Trombone Shorty vs. Prince

Reviews

Aurora Nealand and the Royal Roses, A Tribute to Sidney Bechet: Live in New Orleans (Independent)

Big Blue Marble, The Big Blue Marble (Lettuce Prey Records)

Big Chief Monk Boudreaux, Won’t Bow Down (f.Boo Music)

Billy Iuso, Trippin’ (Independent)

Blind Boys of Alabama, Take the High Road (Saguaro Road)

Booker T. Jones, The Road from Memphis (Anti- Records)

Branford Marsalis/Joey Calderazzo, Songs of Mirth and Melancholy (Marsalis Music)

Charmaine Neville Band, Before the Storm (Independent)

GIVERS, In Light (Glassnote Records)

Nasimiyu, It Ain’t Pretty But It’s Beautiful (Independent)

Slangston Hughes and L’Daialogue DiCaprio, Dollar$ & Daialogue (Independent)

Spencer Bohren, Blackwater Music (Threadhead Records)

Spencer Bohren, The Blues According to Hank Williams (Valve Records)

Steve Earle, I’ll Never Get Out of This World Alive (New West Records)

Terranova, Tried & True (Independent)

Willy DeVille, Come a Little Bit Closer: The Best of Willy DeVille Live (Eagle Records)

Bookmark

City Songs: John Swenson’s New Atlantis and Keith Spera’s Groove Interrupted

Ricky Riccardi, What a Wonderful World: The Magic of Louis Armstrong’s Later Years (Pantheon Books)

Mojo Mouth

Is the New Orleans Live Music Scene Growing?

Plan A: Upcoming Shows

Gillian Welch at Tipitina’s, August 11

Letters

August 2011 Letters