Issue Articles — Features
Donald Harrison, Jr. Comes Home
Saxophonist Donald Harrison Jr., 35, a native son of New Orleans, has just been awarded a three-year, New Residencies grant from Meet The Composer, a national composer service organization. The […]
Festivals Acadiens Preview
The premiere Cajun music event takes over Lafayette Sept. 16-17 Sometimes the dance floor is consumed in a rolling dustcloud, other times two-steppers are ankle-deep in thick black mud. […]
Zydeco Fest Preview
It was three months before Labor Day in the 1982, and not a few people around Plaisance had decided that Wilbert Guillory and the folks at the Southern Development Foundation […]
White Buffalo Day
Feathers and sequins glisten in the high noon heat. Tambourines shake and drums roll, calling out to. the spirits at Congo Square. It is August 27th, 1994. A Native American […]
The Royal Pendletons
“One thing that really bothers me that I always hear in these, quote, histories of rock & roll is that from ’59 to ’64 rock & roll died.” Like a […]
Burnversion
On a Saturday night at the Mermaid Lounge last month, Burnversion are conducting a musical exorcism. James Marler’s tortured whine is almost like Kurt at his most despairing and Bob […]
Weedeater
“Were you anti-laser or pro-laser?” Jason Portera asks me over a cocktail in the non-revolving bar high atop the Landmark Hotel in Metairie. Suddenly, the shimmering skyline in the distance […]
Jazz Words
Jazz fans everywhere may be interested in a pair of new books by New Orleans-based writers. Jaco: The Extraordinary and Tragic Life of Jaco Pastorius, “The World’. Greatest Bass […]
Carribbean Summer
Many a hot summer night in New Orleans has been filled with the percolating rhythms of African and Caribbean artists passing through town, but the summer of ‘95 may go […]
Jazz Fest ’95 in Review
Like its 25 predecessors, the 1995 Jazz Festival had its moments, both memorable and forgettable. Our writers and photographers document some of each. MOST OMNIPRESENT POP STAR: With a straw […]