Quick response to this year’s Jazz Fest talent roll out: – It feels old to complain about the lack of contemporary jazz at Jazz Fest, but this year’s lineup looks like the jazz bookers threw their hands in the air and quit, opting almost entirely for locals. I see Esperanza Spalding, David Sanborn and Joey DeFrancesco, smooth [...]
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The Wild Magnolias and a Magic Handa Wanda
May 1, 2011 – 12:11 am
New Orleans is one of the musical catalysts of the planet. In the almost three centuries that history has recorded at this crescent in the Mississippi River, events have occurred that have changed the sound of music in our world. Louis Moreau Gottschalk took Cuban and Congo Square rhythms and melodies and adapted them to [...]
Bobby Lonero: Did He or Didn’t He?
June 1, 2010 – 12:01 am
Days after our May issue hit the stands, we received an email from Gia Prima, Louis Prima’s widow. “Our Web site, LouisPrima.com has a page (“The Witnesses”) on the complete history of the Witnesses and all of its members, throughout the years,” she wrote. “You will notice that there is no Bobby Lonero! He never [...]
Marva Wright Tribute Added to Jazz Fest
April 4, 2010 – 11:37 am
On the first Saturday of Jazz Fest – April 24 – festival producer Quint Davis will dedicate the Blues Tent to the late Marva Wright during a Tribute to Marva Wright that has only recently been added to the festival schedule. The tribute will take place in the Blues Tent from 12:05 to 12:55 p.m. [...]
YouTube du Jour: Musicians for Mitch Press Conference
February 4, 2010 – 10:23 am
Wednesday night, the House of Blues hosted “Musicians for Mitch,” a fundraiser for mayoral candidate Mitch Landrieu. The star-studded event was emceed by Jazz Fest’s Quint Davis and paraded a who’s who of New Orleans music across the stage. Banu Gibson performed a new campaign song for Landrieu, and the evening presented such charming moments [...]
Secretary of the Arts?
February 10, 2009 – 11:21 am
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 a familiar possibility: Quint Davis.
Do-Overs?
December 21, 2008 – 7:35 am
In Keith Spera’s analysis of the Jazz Fest schedule (not online at Nola.com that I could find), he resurrected one of Quint Davis’ more infamous quotes. When asked in 1994 if younger bands such as then-young bands Counting Crows and Black Crowes should be at Jazz Fest, he said: “I think Counting Crows and [...]
We Are Family: The Neville Brothers
May 1, 2008 – 12:01 am
How do you explain the post-Katrina hostility toward the Neville Brothers? When Quint Davis announced that they would return to Jazz Fest this year to once again close the festival as they have each year since 1990, some readers at Nola.com remained unimpressed, holding it against them that didn’t return. “[Cyril] has spoiled the barrel [...]
Look at Snooks Eaglin Now!: On the Road Again
February 1, 1995 – 12:01 am
Late one foggy night many years ago, a night steeped in the lore of New Orleans R&B, a ’49 Studebaker barreled down a lonely road between Donaldsonville and New Orleans, hauling the Flamingoes home from a gig. Anyone who saw the big car drifting from one side of the road to the other would have [...]
