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They Play. You Dance. That’s It. The World According to ReBirth

There are a lot of things about New Orleans that outsiders find odd-that St. Patrick’s Day is a de facto postal holiday, for example, or that the recently deceased must […]

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Branford Marsalis: Musician as Iconoclast

On Friday, April 30th, The Jazz & Heritage Festival welcomes home saxophonist Branford Marsalis, a New Orleans son who is undoubtedly one of the most important, and controversial, figures in […]

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Pah-Rade!

Sitting one hot afternoon for an interview at the former Lu and Charlie’s jazz club in August of 1974, James Black, one of the great unsung drummers of modern New […]

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Zydeco!

A new collaboration by photographer Rick Olivier and journalist/musician Ben Sandmel, Published by the University Press of Mississippi covers the musical phenomenon of zydeco. From Creole folk roots to the […]

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Groovy! Dude! New Orleans Musical Nicknames

Slim, Red, La La, Tee Tee, Foots, Nose, String Bean, Snowflake, Half A Head, June, Daddy, Pipes, Buck, Pee Wee, Queenie, Stale Bread, Turkey Neck, Groovy, Okey Dokey: sometimes it […]

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BackBeat: The Earl Palmer Story

Although New Orleans has produced more excellent musicians than it’s size warrants. it simply hasn’t been able to support more than a limited number of artists. Even during the commercial […]

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100: The 100 Essential Louisiana CDs, Part 8

In late 1997, the Offbeat staff began developing the list of the 100 Essential Louisiana CDs. Our goal was to pick the 100 compact discs that, Individually, represented influential and/or […]

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Best of the Rest: The Top 11 Acts Not Booked at This Year’s Jazz Fest

A break down of the worthy bands that did not make it to the 1999 Jazz & Heritage Festival lineup, in the May 1999 issue of OffBeat Magazine.

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Whither Jazzfest? A Look Back at the Origins of the World’s Most Successful Music Festival and Its Impact on New Orleans’ Culture

Every spring for nearly one third of the 20th century, New Orleans has celebrated the music and culture of this region. What started off as a small gathering in Congo […]

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Identity Crisis: Louisiana’s Guitar Gable Defends His Legacy

On 1956, Gabriel Perrodin, a native Bellevue, Louisiana, musician, traveled to Lake Charles to make a recording at Eddie Shuler’s Lake Charles studio. When the session didn’t come off as […]

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