Music
Dr. John, Mercenary (Blue Note)
Mac Rebennack has made most of his career into a theatrical performance as the New Orleans mythic icon Dr. John, and he returns with a droll, witty and utterly delightful […]
Papa Grows Funk, Live at the Leaf (Funky Krewe)
The first live album from New Orleans’ own Rainbow Coalition of Funk shows why six years down the road, Papa Grows Funk is among the most in-demand headliners on the […]
Marc Stone, Kickin’ at the Old Point (Tullip)
Musician, WWOZ radio personality and OffBeat columnist Marc Stone has been running one of the coolest regular gigs in town over the last two years at the Old Point Bar. […]
Lillian Boutte’
Lillian Boutté sang at the first French Quarter Festival and will return to kick off this year’s event with a special performance featuring her brother John. The siblings grew up […]
Cassandra Wilson, Thunderbird (Blue Note)
No contemporary vocalist can match Cassandra Wilson’s interpretive breadth. Her transgeneric style turns “Red River Valley” into a stark delta blues and Jakob Dylan’s “Closer To You” into a dark, […]
Tom Russell, Love & Fear (Hightone)
Tom Russell’s last project, a tribute to the poet Charles Bukowski, has clearly influenced his own writing here. The country/folk/blues songwriter ponders the struggle against the limitations age places on […]
Jovino Santos Neto, Roda Carioca (Adventure)
When Jazzfest celebrated the 500th anniversary of Brazil by inviting some of that country’s best musicians, pianist Jovino Santos Neto was one of the event’s minor stars, performing with the […]
Robin Remaily, The Perils of Moving Too Slow (Remaily)
Robin Remaily, part of the legendary Holy Modal Rounders collective of the late 1960s and early 1970s, is now part of the Oregon Rounders clan, performing his multi-instrumental magic in […]
Cowboy Mouth Finds a Way Home
Fred LeBlanc gazes across the House of Blues dance floor at an audience of his peers. LeBlanc and Cowboy Mouth partner Paul Sanchez are performing an acoustic duet set as […]
Miles Davis, The Cellar Door Sessions 1970 (Columbia/Legacy)
“Miles Davis fed on conflict,” wrote Philip Freeman in his fascinating new book Running the Voodoo Down: The Electric Music of Miles Davis. Freeman pointed out that Davis “routinely pitted […]
