October 1999
BackTalk
- Ms. Hadda Brooks
This past April, overshadowed by the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, Hadda Brooks made her first appearance in New Orleans…
Chassez De Faim
Cover Story
- Germaine Bazzle
Germaine Bazzle, called New Orleans' "First Lady of Jazz," is in her element. And she is not, as one can often… - Kim Prevost and Bill Solley: Good Chemistry
The surreal madness of Saturday night in the French Quarter was only a few steps away, but inside the Chateau Sonesta…
Dis 'n' Dat
- Voodoo, Visuals and The Metric System
Halloween Fun at the Hoodoo BashNo Thriller, no Roger Corman Poe knockoff, no Saturday afternoon ghoulathon would be complete without Vincent…
Features
- 100: Essential Feedback
- 10 Years Ago in OffBeat: October
- OffBeat Tracks: Roland Stone
Aaron Neville has referred to Roland Stone as, "The singingest white dude I've ever heard." Pretty fair praise from somebody that… - Doreen Ketchens
- New Orleans Jazz Divas
- Linda Ronstadt
One of the greatest pop voices and song interpreters of her generation spoke with me on a Sunday afternoon in September…
Feedback
Know What It Means
Letters
- Letters October 1999
TEAR DOWN THE CATHEDRAL It seems that after nearly two hundred years of squabbling about musicians interrupting church services at St.…
Mojo Mouth
- The Preservatory: Promoting The business and The Show
I have lamented many times about the lack of commitment from the public sector towards developing the local music industry. There's…
Obituaries
- Obituary: Moondog
"The Viking of Sixth Avenue" died on September 8 in Munster, Germany. Known as Moondog (the name adopted in 1947 from… - Obituary: Beau Joque
Pass A Good Time
Rhythm Method
Sauce Piquante
Straight, No Chaser
Talkin' 'bout New Orleans
Reviews
- Various Artists, Township Jazz 'n' Jive: '50's Urban Swing Classics (Music Club)
- Cassandra Wilson, Traveling Miles (Blue Note)
- Dr. Morgus, Hearse-ry Rhymes (S.N.R.)
On a recent moonlit evening, Bunny Matthews was summoned to the Old City Icehouse in the French Quarter, where Dr. Momus… - Wilson Pickett, It's Harder Now (Bullseye)
Imagine if Aretha Franklin went back into the studio and made an album as good as, say, Aretha Now? Imagine what… - Peter V. Carter, Love Or Money? (Reezy Col)
- Lucky Peterson, Lucky Peterson (Blue Thumb)
- Rizzo, Short While (King Shaka)
- Truman Holland, It's All Temporary (Independent)
- Various Artists, Freedom Blues: South African Jazz Under Apartheid (Music Club)
- Various Artists, Putumayo Presents Africa (Putumayo World Music)
- Chris LeBlanc Band, Talent Show (Sweetroll)
- The Derek Trucks Band, Out of the Madness (House of Blues Music Co.)
Derek Trucks plays the blues with a slow-grind rumble ‘n’ pop, incorporating funk and groove with a soulful sway that's a… - John Fred, I Miss Ya'll (The Unreleased Masters) (Club Louisianne)
- The Oswalds, Movin' on In (Blue World Records)
- Rokbox, Rokbox (Blue World Records)
- Jacquie, Curiosity (Blue World Records)
- David Frazier, A Touch of Blues (Cats Paw)
- Ben E. King, Shades of Blue (Half Note Records)
This was Ben's idea. And it looks good on paper: Take the man whose golden throat graces such sweet soul classics… - John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers, Padlock on the Blues (Purple Pyramid)
John Mayall is certainly one of the most accomplished bandleaders in blues history, a veteran of scores of albums who's consistently… - Troy Turner, Blues on My Back (Telarc)
When Baton Rouge-bred, Texas-schooled Troy Turner steps into his cover of Arthur Gunter's "Baby, Let's Play House," track two of this… - Various Artists, The Last Soul Company: Malaco-A Thirty-Year Retrospective (Malaco)
- Kevin Danzig, Free the Poet (Eclectic Records)
- Jimmy Johnson, Every Road Ends Somewhere (Ruf)
When the road ends, you have to leave it. And it's only natural that the cover of this, Johnson's first CD… - Karla Bonoff, All My Life: The Best of Karla Bonoff (Columbia Legacy)
- Henry Cooper, Slide Man (Burnside)
- Hevia, Tierra de Dadie (Higher Octave World)
- Pablo Ziegler, Quintet for a New Tango (RCA Victor)
- Ras Michael and The Sons of Negus, Rastafari Dub (Reachout International)
- The Revealers, Can't Be Denied (Revealer Records)
- Patricia Saravia, Ritmo de los Santos (Songosaurus Music Inc.)
- Terry Cormier and Louisiana Cajun Heat, Une Vielle Memoire Cajine (Acadiana)
- Queen Ida and Al Rapone, Back on the Bayou (GNP Crescendo)
- Janis Joplin, Box of Pearls: The Janis Joplin Collection (Columbia Legacy)
- Lance Ellis, Just Curious (Lanlord)
- Denise Marie, Open the Door (Independent)
- Sidney Bechet, Up a Lazy River (Good Time Jazz)
- Continental Drifters, Vermilion (Razor and Tie)
- David and Roselyn, Praha Live (Da Ro Productions)
- Rico Watts, Show Love in the USA (Independent)
- The Fabulous Boogie Kings, Walking the Dog (CSP Records)
- Jim Smith and the Damn Frontier, Liar's Bench (Independent)
- Wynton Marsalis, Sweet Release and Ghost Story (Sony)
- Louis Prima and Keely Smith, Wild, Cool and Swingin': The Artist Collection (Capitol)
Just when you thought Capitol had exhausted every imaginable format for marketing its back catalog of ‘50s swing, lounge and exotica,… - Walter "Wolfman" Washington and the Roadmasters, Blue Moon Risin' (Artelier)
- Ray Landry and the Basile Cajun Band with Nonc Allie Young, Play Traditional Style Cajun Music (Swallow)
- Matthew Courville, Avec Un Coeur Pour Mon Pa Pa (Swallow)
- Crosscut, Crosscut (CSP Records)
- The J.J. Muggler Band, New Ruins (Mud/Rock)
- Lil' Buck Sinegal, The Buck Starts Here (NYNO)
- Bruce Daigrepont, Paradis (Rounder Select)
- Leslie Smith, All Come Down To Me (Renegade Records)
- Renee Rosnes, Art and Soul (Blue Note)
- Abbey Lincoln, Wholly Earth (Verve)
- Robert Parker's Jazz Classics in Digital Stereo
