Music
Meschiya Lake and the Little Big Horns, Lucky Devil (Independent)
Meschiya Lake and the Little Big Horns have become a fixture on Frenchmen Street since their founding in 2009. The group plays a mellow brand of banjo-based parlor jazz, and […]
The Beltway Brass Quintet, From the Streets of New Orleans (Independent)
In New Orleans jazz, there are the mega-standards, tunes such as “St. James Infirmary,” “When the Saints Go Marching In,” “Do You Know What it Means,” “Bourbon Street Parade” and […]
Ensemble Fatien, Ensemble Fatien (Threadhead Records)
Composer, multi-instrumentalist and Ivory Coast native Seguenon Kone wanted to create a new kind of musical ensemble. To that end, he traveled the world, settling in New Orleans in 2009. […]
Seafood Makes A Stand
The oil spill in the Gulf cast an uncomfortable pall over Jazz Fest last month. As the spill makes landfall and expands, it threatens to cast an even greater shadow […]
The Classic Jazz Trio, The Classic Jazz Trio (Rankomatic Music)
The Classic Jazz Trio grew out of “informal jam sessions” at the Columns Hotel between guitarist John Rankin and clarinetists Tommy Sancton and Tom Fischer. The instrumental makeup of the […]
Terrance Osborne’s Space Problem
Watch the evolution of Terrance Osborne’s painting for the 2010 Congo Square Poster below. [flickr-gallery mode=”photoset” photoset=”72157623725694369″] Terrance Osborne works from dark to light. “I think of bringing sunlight into […]
The New Orleans Moonshiners, I’m Comin’ Home (Independent)
The New Orleans Moonshiners are among a pack of young groups struggling with the question of what it means to play traditional jazz in 2010. It’s a style with a […]
Band Camp
The New Orleans Traditional Jazz Camp will convene for the first time this summer, from August 1-6 at the Bourbon Orleans Hotel in the French Quarter. Campers will learn from […]
Evan Christopher’s Clarinet Road: French Quarter Fest Focus
It’s hard to say what we should expect from Evan Christopher’s Clarinet Road at French Quarter Fest. His first record under that moniker is packed with trad standards (“St. James […]
Ben Schenck: Undressing a C-Sharp Major
“Play me something.” It’s a gray February morning as I sit down for my first clarinet lesson with Ben Schenck. His daughter Ida, home sick from school, is asleep in […]
