Detroit’s Planet D Nonet are in town tonight and tomorrow night, performing the music of Sun Ra, whose music they recorded on the recent We Travel the Spaceways: the Music of Sun Ra. The group aren’t simply avant-garde fans; they see the connections between big-band conceptualists across the spectrum, including Duke Ellington and and Fletcher [...]
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YouTube du Jour: Phil DeGruy
January 3, 2012 – 10:37 am
Tonight, guitarpist (no typo) Phil DeGruy performs at Snug Harbor with percussionist Michael Skinkus. As this footage of DeGruy performing a medley of songs from The Wizard of Oz demonstrates, he’s one of the city’s finest guitarists and wryest musical wits. Showtimes are at 8 and 10 p.m. and tickets are on sale now.
YouTube du Jour: Lionel Loueke
November 3, 2011 – 1:07 pm
Tonight, jazz guitar master Lionel Loueke plays Snug Harbor with two local jazz musicians: Herlin Riley and David Pulphus. As usual at Snug, the band plays two sets at 8 and 10 p.m. Born in Benin, Loueke became a member of the Thelonious Monk Jazz Institute after attending Berklee School of Music. His star rose [...]
Charmaine Neville Band, Before the Storm (Independent)
August 1, 2011 – 12:55 am
In May 2005, the Charmaine Neville Band undertook what was to be a six-month recording project: to record her weekly performances at Snug Harbor, where Neville had performed on Monday nights since the 1980s. It was to be a window for the listener into what a jazz band can do and how it can evolve, [...]
Satchmo SummerFest: All Things Armstrong
August 1, 2011 – 12:13 am
[UPDATED] Trumpeter and New Orleans’ patron saint of froggy singers, Louis Armstrong, claimed throughout his life to be born on July 4, 1900. But birth records somewhat recently uncovered in New Orleans list the date as August 4, 1901. Some small controversy might surround whether we shouldn’t celebrate on the day Satchmo intended, but New [...]
Preservation Resource Center Honors OffBeat and Others at Ladies in Red
June 9, 2011 – 1:56 pm
Eleven years ago, a light bulb went off in Annie Avery’s head that prompted the first occasion of the Ladies in Red event to honor New Orleans jazz musicians. This year, another light bulb went off: for the first time, music organizations and venues that have contributed to the preservation of jazz history are being [...]
Working on the Mississippi: An Interview with Bill Frisell
May 6, 2011 – 10:48 am
Simply put, guitarist Bill Frisell is a master of the sonic landscape—a virtuoso of both timbre and texture. Though rooted in jazz, the breadth of Frisell’s work spans the genres of blues, folk, rock, country, world, chamber, and classical music. Over the course of his professional career, dating back to the early ’80s, Frisell has [...]
YouTube du Jour: Cindy Scott
January 6, 2011 – 10:08 am
The Jazz Educators Network is holding its conference in New Orleans this weekend, and Snug Harbor has a series of shows associated with the conference. Tonight, it presents “Singers of Song,” a night of female jazz vocalists including Roseanna Vitro, Maria Marquez, Sachal Vasandani and Best of the Beat nominee Cindy Scott. Here she is [...]
Halloween Trick On Frenchmen Street?
October 29, 2010 – 4:00 pm
Business owners on Frenchmen Street are up in arms about the granting of a special events permit that apparently allows sales of liquor and food and also allows live music in a vacant lot located next to the Blue Nile at 532 Frenchmen St. The lot is owned by the Laborde family, whose printing business at [...]
YouTube du Jour: Mario Abney Quintet
August 19, 2010 – 10:13 am
Tonight, the Mario Abney Quintet plays Snug Harbor. Here’s Abney in the jazz mecca Kettering, Ohio playing “Blessed” in what appears to be one of the least atmospheric gigs ever.
