In 1989, Béla Fleck was in a bit of a predicament: He found himself scrambling to find a band to back him for a PBS Lonesome Pine television special. Given the short time Fleck had to assemble the Flecktones, the outcome is amazing. Since their formation, Béla and the Flecktones have recorded five records, one [...]
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This marks the last installment of my column, and August will be the first month since June of 1993 that I won’t be working at OffBeat in some capacity — from intern, to Louisiana Music Directory Coordinator, to New Media Manager, and a contributing writer throughout. While I’m sorry not to be working with OffBeat [...]
The World Wide Web just got a big dose of funk, blues, greazy Fishhead rock, and New Orleans by-way-of Sweden funky blues/rock thanks to new sites by local veteran musicians George Porter, Jr., Brint Anderson, Camile Baudoin and Anders Osborne, respectively. Once the domain of primarily younger bands, this latest crop of sites from New [...]
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Once again this year, the Internet and, especially, the World Wide Web proved an invaluable tool for Jazz Fest visitors as well as an open forum for music fans to discuss highlights and disappointments of the 1998 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. Even local television media finally caught on to the frenzy of pre-Jazz [...]
What a topic this Jazz Fest booking question is. After posting the question, “What do you think about this year’s Jazz Fest line-up” to our Web site, our mailbox has been flooded with responses. Last month’s “Plugged In” included just the beginning of the interesting comments we’ve received, so this month we’ll try to cram [...]
Of all the artists playing Jazz Fest this year, Ronnie Dawson certainly has the strangest career trajectory. Rather than hitting it big with a record when starting out and building a career on that, the 59-year-old Texas guitarist insists he’s only just gotten started in the last ten years, despite playing in the early days [...]
