Podcasts
Look-Ka Py Py Podcast (ep 31): Cutting Up with the Session
With the sound of New Orleans forever linked to the rambling cacophony of traditional jazz, getting a leg up on the city’s contemporary scene presents a unique challenge to its […]
Look-Ka Py Py Podcast (ep 30): Searching for James Booker
Save for New Orleans music aficionados, few are familiar with the music of James Booker — arguably the most prodigiously talented and unquestionably the most misunderstood and overlooked musician to […]
Look-Ka Py Py Podcast (ep 29): Jazz at the Sandbar Marks the Spot
In 1990, venerated New Orleans jazz musicians Ellis Marsalis and Harold Batiste founded Jazz at the Sandbar, a weekly spring concert series held at the Cove on the University of […]
Look-Ka Py Py Podcast (ep 28): Anders Osborne, Right at Home
Swedish-native Anders Osborne first set foot in New Orleans in 1985, and almost instantly, the city compelled the young, wayward drifter to change his course. After landing a spot opening […]
Look-Ka Py Py Podcast (ep 27): TBC Brass Band’s Unstoppable Groove
“The fight for Bourbon Street is not over,” says To Be Continued Brass Band trombonist Edward Jackson III in this week’s episode of OffBeat Magazine’s Look-Ka Py Py Podcast. In […]
Look-Ka Py Py Podcast (ep 26): Michael Doucet, Intercontinental Cajun
“When I was a teenager [sic] or college-age, there were maybe maybe five people my age playing this music,” say Cajun musician Michael Doucet, who, along with his band BeauSoleil, […]
Look-Ka Py Py Podcast (ep 25): Bobby Rush, Back on the Chitlin’ Circuit
There isn’t any question that Homer, Louisiana bluesman Bobby Rush will go down as one of the most colorful and electrifying musicians the genre has ever seen. Still kicking at […]
Look-Ka Py Py Podcast (ep 24): Tom Sancton’s Hallowed Be Thy Swing
“The first time I went to Preservation Hall he was playing the clarinet, and I was just enthralled,” says clarinetist Tom Sancton of his late mentor, George Lewis, a revered […]
Look-Ka Py Py Podcast (ep 23): Smoking Time Jazz Club, Hot Steppin’
Without question jazz stands as America’s most significant musical contribution, an emerging music form born in the freewheeling streets of New Orleans, brought to life in the spirit of improvisation […]
Look-Ka Py Py Podcast (ep 22): Bruce Daigrepont, Enter Waltzman
“I would have never thought in my wildest dreams that I would go record totally by myself — and [sic] in of all places Copenhagen, Denmark,” says venerated Cajun musician […]
