When people mention Kermit Ruffins, they rarely use his last name. They just say, “Hey, we’re going to hear Kermit tonight” or “We’re heading to Kermit’s place later.” Like one of the trumpeter’s and vocalist’s mentors, the late bass drummer “Uncle” Lionel Batiste, Kermit makes folks feel like they are a part of his family. [...]
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Louisiana Music Timeline: March 13
March 13, 2013 – 1:51 pm
Here’s OffBeat’s video tribute to the people and events that shaped New Orleans and Louisiana music history through the years on March 13, enjoy… Have a special Louisiana music moment that you’d like to add to our timeline? Email us at info@offbeat.com. 1962: Happy Birthday to New Orleans composer and trumpeter Terence Blanchard! 1994: Musician [...]
By Aaron Lafont
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Posted in Today in Louisiana Music History
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Also tagged Louisiana music, music history, Terence Blanchard
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Louisiana Music Timeline: January 13
January 13, 2013 – 11:49 am
January 13 1889: Birth of trombonist and sax player Harrison Barnes, born on the Magnolia Plantation. 1905: Birth of trumpeter Percy Humphrey, born in New Orleans 1909: Birth of Danny Barker, born in New Orleans at 1027 Chartres St. 1962: Happy Birthday to Trace Adkins, born in Springhill, Louisiana 1982: Happy Birthday to singer and [...]
By Joseph Irrera
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Posted in Today in Louisiana Music History
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Also tagged Harrison Barnes, Joe Stark, Louisiana music, music history, Percy Humphrey, Trace Adkins
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The BEAT Goes On: A 25 Year Retrospective of OffBeat Magazine
December 1, 2012 – 12:14 am
OffBeat Magazine, the foremost authority on Louisiana music and one of the world’s longest-running jazz and roots music publications, celebrates its 25th anniversary with this issue. Here, we give a pithy history of how the publication grew in tandem with the popularity of the city and state of Louisiana’s music scene as it recaptured the [...]
By John Swenson
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Posted in Cover Story
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Also tagged Alex Chilton, Allen Toussaint, Amanda Shaw, Art Neville, Blue Lu Barker, Branford Marsalis, Clarence “Frogman” Henry, Cowboy Mouth, Cyril Neville, Dash Rip Rock, Dave Bartholomew, Davis Rogan, Deacon John, Delfeayo Marsalis, Dew Drop Inn, Donald Harrison, Dr. John, Earl King, Ernie K-Doe, George Porter Jr., harold battiste, Iguanas, Irma Thomas, Ivan Neville, James Booker, Jazz Fest Bible, Johnny Adams, Jon Cleary, Lionel Batiste, MyNameIsJohnMichael, Mystikal, Neville Brothers, New Orleans Klezmer All-Stars, Pete Fountain, Preservation Hall, Professor Longhair, Quint Davis, Radiators, Royal Fingerbowl, Snooks Eaglin, Susan Cowsill, The Meters, Tommy Ridgley, Trombone Shorty, Walter “Wolfman” Washington, Zachary Richard, [givers]
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New Orleans Helsinki Connection, Paradise on Earth (Spirit of New Orleans Productions)
October 1, 2012 – 12:51 am
Sweetness and light abound on the latest release from New Orleans Helsinki Connection. Led by the inimitable Leroy Jones and buffeted by vocal contributions from Tricia Boutté and Yolanda Windsay, the album sounds like late afternoon. Jones and Katja Toivola direct this transatlantic exchange, enlisting players who care about getting it right. Gerald French and [...]
By Brian Boyles
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Posted in Reviews
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Also tagged jazz, katja toivola, Leroy Jones, New Orleans Helsinki Connection, Todd Duke, tricia boutte
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Meet Me at the Second Line: The Black Men of Labor Talk Tradition
September 1, 2012 – 12:20 am
The 2012-2013 social aid and pleasure club parade season, which runs from the last Sunday in August to mid-June, has begun. The time seemed right to sit down with the founding members of the Black Men of Labor organization — Fred Johnson, Gregg Stafford and Benny Jones, Sr. — to talk about its parade and [...]
By Geraldine Wyckoff
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Posted in Features
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Also tagged Benny Jones, Black Men of Labor, Blue Lu Barker, Fred Johnson, Greg Stafford
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Kid Merv: Drinking from the Source
August 1, 2012 – 12:11 am
If you’re a musician in New Orleans, you’re never far from the source. In the case of trumpeter/vocalist Mervin “Kid Merv” Campbell, he’s got it coming and going. His great uncle, Kid Rena, was a local star during the infancy of jazz in the early 20th Century, a rival of Louis Armstrong’s who replaced Satchmo [...]
By John Swenson
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Posted in Features
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Also tagged Harold Dejan, Kid Merv, Olympia Brass Band, Treme Brass Band, Uncle Lionel Batiste
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Various Artists, Mardi Gras Parade Music From New Orleans, Volume 2 (GHB Records)
July 1, 2011 – 12:51 am
Compilations of New Orleans Mardi Gras music have a tendency to adjust themselves to outside perceptions of the holiday rather than vice versa. Not so with GHB Records’ newest offering. There are no conspicuous appeals here to the broader commercial market, notwithstanding a recording of “The Saints” from Louis Armstrong, whose Mardi Gras bona fides [...]
By Zachary Young
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Posted in Reviews
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Also tagged Carnival, Compilations, jazz, Louis Armstrong, Mardi Gras, parades
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Blue Lu Barker: Kind of Blue
February 1, 2011 – 12:09 am
Her voice was never as buxom as she was. Her husband’s fame outgrew her own. Still, Blue Lu Barker remains an important icon of New Orleans jazz and blues 12 years after her death. And while her best-remembered material dates from the ’30s when she was living in New York City, Barker continued performing, especially [...]
By Hank Cherry
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Posted in Features
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Also tagged Blue Lu Barker, jazz, Jazz Fest, singers
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The Early Dirty Dozen Brass Band
October 1, 2010 – 12:10 am
In Sweet Home New Orleans’ recent State of the Music Community report, it found that while musicians in general were struggling, the brass band community was in relatively good shape. The mainstays are playing regularly and new brass bands are emerging. It wasn’t always that way. Recently, Tulane Assistant Professor in Music Matt Sakakeeny conducted [...]
By Alex Rawls
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Posted in Features
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Also tagged brass bands, Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Fairview Baptist Church, funk, Glass House, jazz, Olympia Brass Band
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