Tonight the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Performance is hosting a special concert, “Jazz for the Ages.” The show brings together the young talents in the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Ensemble with older masters Dr. Michael White on clarinet, singers Banu Gibson and Phillip Manuel, and trumpeter Lionel Ferbos, New Orleans’ oldest working musician [...]
Krewe of Eris is an annual Mardi Gras marching parade, a swarm of costumed miscreants who meet in the Bywater and meander through the Upper Ninth Ward and the French Quarter. More than 60 strong, they parade putting a premium on spirit over technique, warbling and screeching, squirming and flailing. Their cares are few, their [...]
The talk of the town this last month has been unity. The overarching narrative of the Saints saga has been the way in which this Super Bowl season has brought New Orleanians (wherever they are) together across all lines and boundaries, whether economic, geographic, generational, or racial. Even more than during Mardi Gras, the Who [...]
The Essence Music Festival continued to beef up this year’s lineup of stars, adding singer/pianist Alicia Keys as a headliner at the Independence Day weekend festival. Keys released her fourth studio album this past December, riding on the success of her guest turn on the Jay-Z hit, Empire State of Mind.
Keys was not the only [...]
Gypsyphonic Disko
Nola-Phonic, Volume One
(mixtape)
The talk of the town these days is unity. The overarching narrative of the Saints saga has been the way in which this Super Bowl season has brought New Orleanians (wherever they are) together across all lines and boundaries, whether economic, geographic, generational, or racial. Even more than [...]
In the midst of Who Dat Fever tonight, Memphis rock ‘n’ soul band Jump Back Jake is coming down the Mississippi to play a show at All-Ways Lounge tonight at 10 p.m with Magnolia Beacon & ex-New Marigny Millionaires.
Jump Back Jake mix their love of classic Stax and Hi Records-style Memphis soul with their upbringing [...]
In our current Mardi Gras issue, Abby Lunetta wrote about the newest exhibition at the New Orleans Art Museum, Parallel Universe: Quintron and Miss Pussycat Live at City Park. The show opened this past Friday, and runs until May 2. The exhibit includes several of Quintron’s “Drum Buddy” synthesizer/drum machines, one of which can be [...]
Louisiana musicians made another strong showing at the Grammy Awards last night, with The New Orleans Jazz Orchestra (NOJO) taking home the prize for “Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album” with last year’s Book One CD. Trumpeter Terence Blanchard won the “Best Improvised Jazz Solo” award for the solo he took on the song “Dancin’ 4 Chicken” [...]
Tonight is the first showing of The Warehouse New Orleans…Revisited! at Harrah’s Theatre. The show, playing tonight and tomorrow night at 8pm, celebrates the legendary concert venue The Warehouse (see the profile from this month’s January issue) and the artists that played there. The tribute will begin with a sneak preview of the upcoming documentary [...]
The Drive-By Truckers are coming back to New Orleans in March for a two-night stay at Tipitina’s on March 19 and 20 (a Friday and Saturday). The Truckers will stop here just after South By Southwest in Austin, Texas as part of the band’s tour in support of their upcoming album on ATO Records, The Big To-Do, [...]
