PRIDE ON BOURBON I have lived in New Orleans for about two years and some of the first gigs I got were on Bourbon Street. At that time, the fare was schlock rock and the goal was to get tips from tourists. Fortunately, after taking a break from Bourbon Street for about a year, I [...]
Tag Archives: Jan Ramsey
Post-Traumatic
August 25, 2010 – 2:56 pm
Satellite view of “The Big One” Yesterday afternoon I was waiting for an appointment in an office, and a woman who was sitting next to me was complaining to her friend: “I am so sick of hearing about Katrina. All those people who are still trying to get into their houses should have moved back [...]
August 2010 Letters
August 1, 2010 – 12:01 am
Sense of History Bravo and congratulations to Jason Marsalis for his frank and insightful piece in the July 2010 issue of OffBeat. His emphasis on the importance of a sense of history and “the jazz tradition” is right on. My only comment would be that, as a member of the generation of Jason’s distinguished father [...]
February 2009 Letters
February 1, 2009 – 12:01 am
TOP 50 Thanks for the great year-end albums list, but not including Anders Osborne’s Coming Down in the Top 50 seems a serious oversight. I would also try to sneak Renard Poche’s self-released album in there. Overall, I agree that this was a great year for music and a testament to the vibrancy of the [...]
All in a Generation’s Work
November 1, 2007 – 12:01 am
I never thought I’d still be cranking out OffBeat after an entire generation. I thought that I would have completed my work by now, that is, I thought that the New Orleans and Louisiana music community would be cohesive; it would be prosperous; and its accomplishments would be recognized and applauded. But what I discovered [...]
Stuff We Liked in ’91
December 1, 1991 – 12:01 am
Everybody knows that year-end Top 10 lists are unfair (who, after all, has heard it all?), but we still love to read them. So we had the staff and a couple of contributing writers compile their very own lists for Christmas. The guidelines were vague: it had to happen or be released in 1991, it [...]
