Online News — Jazz Fest
Beach Boys: The Lost Decade
Listen to Alex Rawls’ accompanying Beach Boys Playlist on Spotify When the Beach Boys play Jazz Fest, it’s a safe bet that their set will rely heavily on the hits, […]
Feast Through Jazz Fest
Seven days, 12 stages and tents, hundreds of musical acts, countless applications of sunscreen, and one can only guess how many lukewarm beers. To borrow a cliché, Jazz Fest is […]
Jazz Fest Focus: Tami Curtis-Ellis
South Louisiana has an energy all its own, and local artist Tami Curtis-Ellis makes it her mission to share it with the world. Part expressionism, part impressionism and part folk […]
Jazz Fest Focus: James Andrews
If you know Trombone Shorty, then you know my friend, James Andrews, Shorty’s big brother. James helped raise Shorty, made sure he had as many opportunities as possible to take […]
Jazz Fest Focus: Leon “Kid Chocolate” Brown
Leon “Kid Chocolate” Brown has accomplished a lot at a relatively young age. Picking up the trumpet at the age of 9, he’s toured the world playing music since the […]
Jazz Fest Focus: Cha Wa
Drummer Joe Gelini was playing with Big Chief Monk Boudreaux during Super Sunday 2010 when something caught his ear. “I heard this voice that was so commanding, this big, booming, […]
Jazz Fest Focus: Pat Casey and the New Sound
Pat Casey, bass player and namesake of Pat Casey and the New Sound, took the long route to New Orleans—one that’s taken him around the world, from the tropics to […]
Jazz Fest Focus: Gary Clark, Jr.
Are you experienced? In 1967, Jimi Hendrix posed this simple question, and from it, summoned up a fierce, reverberant squall that, four decades removed from his untimely passing, remains unanswered. […]
Jazz Fest Focus: Bombino
While “Desert Rock” as a genre term applies to the dense, high-decibel riffage of Mojave-dwellers Kyuss and Queens of the Stone Age, one could easily imagine an alternate universe where […]
Jazz Fest Focus: Sarah Jarosz
Sarah Jarosz turns 21 in late May, but that’s not obvious from her voice. This is not so hard to understand, as she has been singing since she was two. […]
