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Loueke at UNO Today
Today at 1:30, jazz guitarist Lionel Loueke will give a workshop in UNO’s Performing Arts Center, Room 103. If I could get away, I’d be there. Here’s the hype: […]
Secretary of the Arts?
Quincy Jones has been actively pressing President Obama to create a Secretary of the Arts Cabinet post. NARAS president Neil Portnow echoed those thoughts and Variety‘s Phil Gallo suggested […]
Whose Jazz?
Belyin’s response to yesterday’s post gave me reason to go back and scrutinize the Jazz Fest’s jazz offerings more closely. Snug Harbor aside, it’s hard to look at that […]
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BeauSoleil Reviewed
Nate Chinen reviews BeauSoleil’s new album, Alligator Purse, from Sunday’s New York Times. Good line: He and his partners have such a clear identity by now — Mr. Doucet […]
A Missing Link
For those like me who were a little surprised that no one thought to match funk and Mardi Gras Indian music before The Wild Magnolias, Dan Phillips at Home […]
Al Copeland
The world is a sadly more tasteful place since restauranteur (using the term in its most generous sense) Al Copeland died Sunday of cancer. I’ll have to develop a new […]
