Tonight, Tuesday and Wednesday, a digitally restored version of Stevenson Palfi‘s documentary Piano Players Rarely Play Together will show at the Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center (1618 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd.) at 7:30 p.m. Also on the bill will be Palfi’s final finished work, the short The World According to Ernie K-Doe. $40,000 were spent restoring [...]
Tag Archives: Professor Longhair
YouTube du Jour: Bill Kirchen
August 26, 2011 – 10:22 am
Tonight, honky-tonk guitar hero Bill Kirchen plays Chickie Wah Wah. Kirchen wowed a Jazz Fest audience at the Lagniappe Stage when he quoted 50 years of rock ‘n’ roll history in a six-minute version of “Hot Rod Lincoln,” the song he made his name on when he was the guitarist in Commander Cody’s Lost Planet [...]
YouTube du Jour: Snooks Eaglin
April 18, 2011 – 12:55 pm
After sending the finished 2011 Jazz Fest Bible to the printer yesterday, we’re gearing up for the Fest in eleven days. Here’s the late, great blues guitarist and singer Snooks Eaglin, who graced our Jazz Fest Bible cover two years ago, with a crack band of Jon Cleary on piano, George Porter, Jr. on bass, [...]
YouTube du Jour: Jon Cleary
March 28, 2011 – 9:34 am
Tonight, pianist Jon Cleary plays Chickie Wah Wah. Here he is at the piano talking about Professor Longhair and the Caribbean influence with Loyola’s John Snyder.
YouTube du Jour: Mardi Gras Classic with Professor Longhair
February 24, 2011 – 12:19 pm
With the next round of Mardi Gras parades resuming tomorrow, it’s time to put up a stone cold classic. This recently-found video shows piano legend Professor Longhair performing Earl King’s Mardi Gras anthem “Big Chief” at the 1973 Montreux Jazz Festival. Despite its status now, though, in last year’s Mardi Gras issue Jeff Hannusch wrote [...]
Dew Drop Inn, Fess’ House on Endangered List
May 30, 2010 – 7:11 am
Friday night, the Louisiana Landmark Society named its Endangered Nine for 2010, and on the list are Professor Longhair’s home and the Dew Drop Inn. Both buildings are in serious states of disrepair; in fact, the society considers Longhair’s house at 1740 Terpsichore St. uninhabitable. The Dew Drop Inn is still owned by the grandson [...]
Got Art?
April 7, 2010 – 10:26 am
Last year, we published readers’ photos of Jazz Fest from the 1970s in the Jazz Fest Bible. We’re not repeating that in the pages of the issue, but we love classic photos and would like to run a slideshow of your vintage shots from the festival like this one featuring Muddy Waters and Professor Longhair [...]
