“When I started writing, I never thought I was going to be published” says Louis Maistros. The proprietor of Louie’s Juke Joint—an online music store—enjoyed not worrying about any restraints or formulas when he wrote The Sounds of Building Coffins. The book is a historical novel set in New Orleans that takes place in the [...]
This year’s Grammys were good to Louisiana. The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences gave out its awards February 8 and handed four trophies to Lil Wayne. His album Tha Carter III led to Grammys for Best Rap Album, Best Rap Song (“Lollipop”), Best Rap Solo Performance (“A Milli”) and Best Rap Performance by [...]
In Satchmo: The Wonderful World and Art of Louis Armstrong, author Steven Brower presents readers with another side of the internationally known figure. He was not only a jazz musician and writer; as the book illustrates, Armstrong was also a collage artist. In scrapbooks and on the boxes of reel-to-reel tape recordings, he snipped news [...]
