Issue Articles — Jazz Fest Focus
Jazz Fest Focus: Christian McBride
Christian McBride Big Band (Second Jazz Fest Weekend) Sunday, May 3, Allison Miner Stage, 3:15p Zatarains/WWOZ Jazz Tent, 5:35 p.m. Asked to describe the musical common denominator he shares with Dianne […]
Jazz Fest Focus: Cecil McLorin Salvant
Cecil McLorin Salvant (Second Jazz Fest Weekend) Friday, May 1, Zatarain’s/WWOZ Jazz Tent, 4:20 p.m. By the time Carmen McRae comes to the final lyric of “Trouble Is a Man” during […]
Jazz Fest Focus: Monty Alexander
Monty Alexander and the Harlem-Kingston Express (Second Jazz Fest Weekend) Thursday, April 30, Zatarain’s/WWOZ Jazz Tent, 5:30 p.m. In the late ’50s, in Kingston, Jamaica, the steady diet of music feeding […]
Jazz Fest Focus: Angelique Kidjo
Angelique Kidjo (Festival International de Louisiane) Thursday, April 23, Scene Stabil Drill International Stage, 9:45 p.m.; (First Jazz Fest Weekend) Sunday, April 26, Congo Square, 1:55 p.m. Building physical bridges […]
Jazz Fest Focus: Tony Hall is James Brown
Tony Hall and the New Orleans Soul Stars’ Tribute to James Brown (First Jazz Fest Weekend) Saturday, April 25, Congo Square, 12:30 p.m. “You can’t fake the funk,” declares Tony […]
Fest Focus: Theresa Andersson
Her soft speaking voice is extremely deceptive, for Theresa Andersson uses words that express confidence about music and her future in, it. There’s no reason why she shouldn’t. The vocalist/violinist/songwriter […]
Fest Focus: Marva Wright
The Blues may be “nothing but a woman cryin’ for her man” I as the great Georgia White once observed. Unfortunately for the blues world, there are precious few women […]
Fest Focus: Mamou Prairie Band
“This band has never been this, tight,” says Randy Vidtine, guitarist with the rising Mamou Prairie Band. A Cajun music veteran since his high school days in Evangeline Parish, Vidrtine […]
Fest Focus: Willie Nelson
While most folks pine away at their humdrum jobs, saving for the day when they can escape, Nelson’s famed tour bus, the Honeysuckle Rose is busy weaving its way through […]
Fest Focus: Ironing Board Sam
Though an active and unique blues artist for nearly four decades, Ironing Board Sam Moore has a rather short resume. He’s recorded only a handul of singles, one LP and […]
