All aboard… The release of New Orleans trumpet king Kermit Ruffins‘ latest album We Partying Traditional Style is right around the corner, and while the album isn’t slated to hit the shelves officially until next Tuesday (May 28), OffBeat’s setting it off with an exclusive streaming listen of the full track, “Over the Waves.” Since [...]
Tag Archives: Basin Street Records
Davell Crawford: My Gift To You (Basin Street)
May 1, 2013 – 12:59 pm
Buy on Amazon Davell Crawford often gets called the “Piano Prince of New Orleans,” but that usually isn’t meant in the Purple Rain sense. But it’s hard to think of a better parallel on Crawford’s first studio album in more than a decade: Few other artists this side of Prince are more eclectic, more erratically [...]
Jason Marsalis Vibes Quartet, In a World of Mallets (Basin Street Records)
February 1, 2013 – 12:58 am
On a drum kit, the youngest Marsalis often goes several directions (meters) (not Meters) at once. On vibraphone, as he demonstrates here, it’s more a matter of smoothing up many segments into a continuous whole. Over the course of the disc he’ll invoke bells, chimes, the signature tunes of cozy wall clocks grown familiar from [...]
Streamlines: Basin Street Records, Never Records, Soundclash Podcasts
December 1, 2012 – 12:04 am
Now Streaming on OffBeat’s Look-Ka Py Py Podcast… BASIN STREET RECORDS, SWINGING STRONG Label founder Mark Samuels’ part-time hobby-turned-full-time endeavor swings steadfast, keeping time in an industry asunder, a true testament to the enduring—and evolving—nature of New Orleans music. Samuels tells of Basin Street’s plans to let loose for its 15th anniversary. NEVER RECORDS: HERE [...]
Look-Ka Py Py Podcast (ep 9): Basin Street Records, Swinging Strong
October 31, 2012 – 4:37 pm
November 14, 1997 is one of the most important dates in the recent history of New Orleans music. That night, Kermit Ruffins and the Barbecue Swingers played to a packed Tipitina’s — a performance that yielded the following year’s The Barbecue Swingers Live album. That release marked local label Basin Street Records‘ first foray into [...]
Basin Street Records celebrates 15 years in the land of dreams
October 22, 2012 – 12:33 pm
Today, Oct. 22, marks the 15th anniversary of New Orleans-based Basin Street records. Mark Samuels has kept the label going through a series of challenges ranging from the destruction of the company’s office in the 2005 flood to the death of brick-and-mortar record stores. Through creative marketing and his own hard work, Samuels has developed [...]
Dr. Michael White: Free Download from Adventures in New Orleans Jazz, Part 2
May 22, 2012 – 6:37 pm
For traditional jazz fans—and New Orleans music lovers in general—one of last summer’s most exciting releases was clarinetist Dr. Michael White’s Adventures in New Orleans Jazz, Part 1. We even chose the album as the eighth favorite on our 40 Best Albums of 2011 list. Any “Part 1″ brings anticipation of a “Part 2″, and [...]
Theresa Andersson, Street Parade (Basin Street Records)
May 1, 2012 – 12:56 am
Theresa Andersson’s Street Parade is not Galactic’s Carnivale Electricos. The latter is a high-energy, hot-blooded celebration of Carnival while Street Parade’s mood is complicated. The title track/album opener gives listeners a reason to hear the album as melancholy when a mournful trombone glide just seconds into the song sets a blue tone, but the song [...]
