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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. […]
Jazz Fest Focus: Geno Delafose
For the past two years, Kay Wright has chartered buses to New Orleans and Beaumont, Texas so dozens of fans can see Geno Delafose and French Rockin’ Boogie. Most of […]
Jazz Fest Focus: Brass Bed
2012 is the next in a series of theoretical breakout years for New Orleans-via-Lafayette indie rockers Brass Bed. That big pop hasn’t happened yet, despite two excellent LPs and a […]
Honey Island Swamp Band: Making Honey
Sunday, May 1, 2011 was a day for the Jazz Fest record books. As the sun ascended to its afternoon perch, a substantial crowd convened at the Fais Do-Do Stage. […]
Esperanza Spalding: When NPR is Not Enough
It was in July 2007, while at the Montreal Jazz Festival, that Esperanza Spalding bought her first electric bass. What surprised her was not so much the sound it provided […]
The New Generation of Mardi Gras Indians: Do Clothes Make the Man?
The rain is pouring down in a grey deluge on a Saturday afternoon in February, pooling so quickly on Louisiana Avenue that the street is filling up with water, turning […]
The Stooges Brass Band and Mannie Fresh in Los Angeles: Studio Kings
When the Stooges Brass Band rolled into Red Bull Studios Los Angeles with producer Mannie Fresh, it was a meeting of two titans of New Orleans street music. The Stooges […]
Jesse McBride: Other Men’s Blues
It’s contradictory, but pianist and bandleader Jesse McBride has a laid-back, intense air. He gives off a simultaneous vibe of “Whatever happens, happens” and “I’m going to make sure what […]
Terence Blanchard at Barranquijazz Festival in Colombia
The capacity audience at this cosmopolitan Caribbean coastal city’s 15th-annual Barranquijazz Festival fell pin-drop quiet for Terence Blanchard’s opening trumpet soliloquy. Barranquijazz takes place in Barranquilla, Colombia the second week […]
Tom Petty: Growing Up Petty
Johnny Cash once said that “Southern Accents” should be the new anthem of the South. Its author, Tom Petty, has been based in Los Angeles since 1975, but in recent […]
