Issue Articles
Fest Focus: Bobby Rush
If live performances were subject to the rating system used by The Motion Picture Association of America, the stage show of blues man Bobby Rush would definitely qualify for an […]
John Mooney: A Country Boy in New Orleans
Fate works in strange ways. In the annals of blues history, coincidences and events can take on mythical qualities with the passing of time, their improbable circumstances suggesting that destiny […]
Fest Focus: Raymond Myles
When Raymond Anthony Myles takes the stage at the Gospel Tent he is usually accompanied by the sound of screaming women. At the sight of this extravagantly dressed man, a […]
Fest Focus: Nicholas Payton
When young trumpet lion Nicholas Payton takes the Jazz Tent stage on Sunday, April 28, it will be a high point, though by no means a culmination, in a lifetime […]
Breaking Bread with R&B Legends
Everybody knows Fats Domino, Dr. John, the Neville Brothers, Wynton and Branford Marsalis enjoy major-label recording contracts and tour the world as musical ambassadors of the sound of New Orleans, […]
Allen Toussaint: On the Spiritual Side
It has been 18 years since Allen Toussaint, the premier New Orleans songwriter, released a major album of his own. That was Southern Nights, a minor classic with the dreamy […]
Q&A with Wynton Marsalis
I remember the first time I interviewed Wynton Marsalis some 10 years ago. I came away from that discussion with a sense that the young trumpeter, then only 25-years-old, felt […]
Fest Focus: The Paulin Family
“A Fellow can’t learn you no jazz, you’ve got to learn that yourself,” says Ernest “Doc” Paulin who has played traditional jazz for some 68 of his 88 years. A […]
