March 2020
Cover Story
- The Iceman Special: Cross-Generational Collaboration And Family Ties
https://www.offbeat.com/shop/music/the-iceman-special-dr-dudes-masquerade-parade-ltd-edition-vinyl/ On a recent Sunday night at House of Blues, good vibrations radiated through the room, even though the evening’s headlining…
BackTalk
- Christone ‘‘Kingfish’’ Ingram talks back
A native of Clarksdale, Mississippi, Christone “Kingfish” Ingram comes from the land of Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson, John Lee Hooker and…
Features
- Matthew Zarba is Upbeat Academy’s unflappable rap principal
I’m sitting in the back seat of Upbeat Academy Executive Director Matthew Zarba’s car, riding along with him as he picks… - New Orleans Indie Rock’s Ten-Year Anniversary
New Orleans indie rock artists have always been a part of the city’s music scene. Before the Foo Fighters made the… - Malevitus Celebrates While We Incinerate
Tiana Hux is a force of nature, a long-stemmed rose studded with thorns that draw blood. A gifted performance artist, she…
Fresh
- BUKU Focus: Five Questions with rapper Stone Cold Jzzle
During this year’s BUKU Music + Art Project, which takes place March 20-22 at Mardi Gras World, rapper Stone Cold Jzzle… - Five Questions with award-winning author Maurice Carlos Ruffin
Award-winning author Maurice Carlos Ruffin is a native New Orleanian and a graduate of the University of New Orleans Creative Writing… - BUKU Focus: My Music with DJ Lady Lavender
Beth Lauren Cohen, a.k.a. Lady Lavender, has been playing gigs at Poor Boys, Santos, Sidney’s Saloon and was selected to perform… - Aiges’ Jamaican Me Breakfast Club releases new material
When Scott Aiges moved to New Orleans in 1988, he planned on staying for two years, but ended up staying for… - Super Sunday: A Significant Day for Mardi Gras Indians
Aside from Mardi Gras, the most significant day for the city’s Mardi Gras Indians is “Super Sunday,” always the third Sunday…
Letters
- Letters to the Editor: OffBeat Magazine, March 2020
New Orleans Soul This letter is in response to December 2019 Mojo Mouth “Do We Really Want Shiny and Soulless?” by…
Mojo Mouth
- Mojo Mouth, March 2020: Killing The Goose - a note from Jan Ramsey
This morning as I climbed into my office chair overlooking Frenchmen Street, I was taken aback by the view of two…
Obituaries
- In memoriam: Lucien Barbarin (1956-2020)
The name Lucien Barbarin elicits nothing but praise from his fellow musicians and all of those lucky enough to have heard…
OffBeat Eats
- Dining Out: Gianna Restaurant
At Donald Link’s latest restaurant Gianna, chef/partner Rebecca Wilcomb pays homage to her roots by honoring her Grandmother Giannina Chieregati’s culinary…
Reviews
- Sierra Green & the Soul Machine, Sierra Green & the Soul Machine (Independent)
Best Emerging Artist It’s party time with vocalist Sierra Green & the Soul Machine who keeps things jumpin’ for the… - Lawrence Sieberth, Musique Visuelle: Music for Piano Trio and Orchestra (Musik Blöc)
Lawrence Sieberth ’s Musique Visuelle: Music for Piano Trio and Orchestra is a gargantuan endeavor, rich with emotion and densely layered.… - Mike Zito & Friends, Rock & Roll: A Tribute to Chuck Berry (Ruf Records)
Mike Zito & Friends: Loose and Lively You can never have too much Chuck Berry in your collection. But a… - Michael Doucet avec Lâcher Prise, Lâcher Prise (Compass Records)
BeauSoleil’s fiddlin’ frontman Michael Doucet admits he’s at the point in his life where he can do whatever the hell he… - Susanne Ortner Trio, Last Stop Sehnsucht (Independent)
Susanne Ortner is one of the many emigres who’ve arrived in New Orleans recently to enliven the traditional music scene. Originally… - Sam Doores, Sam Doores (New West)
“Dust off this old piano (pronounced ‘piana’), because I’m too broke to leave Louisiana” is just one of the great lines… - Stoo Odom Indefensible, Too Long to Chew Music (Independent)
There’s a fine linguistic line between “indefensible” and “indispensable,” and Stoo Odom likes to work that edge. On his first solo… - Quinn Sternberg, Mind Beach (Independent)
The beach is not the first setting you think of when it comes to jazz, not even the smooth, folk-inspired kind… - Naughty Professor, Everyday Shredder (Independent)
Identity, the last album from New Orleans’ premier jazz-funk band Naughty Professor, was a sprawling, adventurous tour-de-force, which featured a who’s… - Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis, The Music of Wayne Shorter (Blue Engine Records)
There’s no doubt about it that Wayne Shorter’s often quite lengthy solos stand as the apexes of this fine album recorded… - Tom Witek, The V.Tet-Octagami (Independent)
On his first album, The V.Tet-Octagami, bassist Tom Witek taps into one of the best assets New Orleans’ musical community has… - The Electric Arch, Out of Range (Independent)
Nikolai Tesla knew what he was doing. So does James Marler, leader of the fascinating New Orleans project The Electric Arch,… - The New Mastersounds featuring Lamar Williams Jr., Shake It (Color Red Records)
Even for a Leeds, England-based group dedicated to keeping classic soul-jazz an ongoing proposition, Jazz Fest faves the New Mastersounds really… - Various Artists, Land of 1000 Dances: The Rampart Records 58th Anniversary Complete Singles Collection (Minky Records)
Chris Kenner was musical Ice Nine. Few characters channeled the wild, ecstatic vision of Cosimo Matassa’s J&M dream better than this… - Kevin Anthony & G-Town, Eh Ha Ha: A Tribute to the Original Cajun Fiddle of Harry Choates (Independent)
Given his defining rendition of “Jole Blon,” a national Top 10 hit in 1946, iconic swing fiddler Harry Choates will always… - The Tomb of Nick Cage, Cryptids and Creatures (Independent)
The Tomb of Nick Cage bills itself as a horror-rock, new-wave, metal, deathrock band—can’t argue with that. Horror-hardcore bands White Zombie… - Franco Ambrosetti Quintet, Long Waves (Unit)
New Orleans music fans are well aware of guitarist John Scofield, the great jazz and funk conceptualist best known around these…
