Issue Articles — Cover Story
Jazz Fest 2000: From A to Z
When you want to make a complicated thing simple, you break it down to the ABCs. When you want to get a handle on an event as sprawling as Jazz […]
Henry Butler and Corey Harris
The key word here is “inscrutable.” When folk-blues scholars three or four generations down the line queue up the music on Corey Harris and Henry Butler’s new CD, vu-du-menz, that’ll […]
Galactic: A Lust for the Groove
Galactic, n. 1. an elite sect of interstellar nomads, originating from the Crescent nebula, who seek out and plunder worlds in an insatiable lust for groove. –adj. 2. pertaining to […]
The Peculiar Reality of Dr. John
Mac Rebennack, known and loved throughout the galaxy of music as Dr. John, is the recipient of OffBeat’s 1999 Best of the Beat Lifetime Achievement award. Born Malcolm John Rebennack, […]
Nicholas Payton: Reinventing the Tradition
Steeped in the legacy of New Orleans music, Nicholas Payton comes of age with a new generation’s vision for the future. “I wanted to do something more personal than anything […]
Jo “Cool” Davis: The Gospel According to Cool
The irrepressible Jo “Cool” Davis is one of the guiding lights of the New Orleans gospel scene. He hosts the tremendously popular House of Blues Gospel Brunches every Sunday and […]
Tab Benoit: Fish Don’t Just Jump In Your Boat
Tab Benoit becomes his own man, finally. Tab’s fifth CD, The Blues Are All Mine, is his first studio release in four years, with Benoit embarking on a complete redefinition […]
Kim Prevost and Bill Solley: Good Chemistry
The surreal madness of Saturday night in the French Quarter was only a few steps away, but inside the Chateau Sonesta Hotel, where budding jazz diva Kim Prevost and Guitarist […]
Germaine Bazzle
Germaine Bazzle, called New Orleans’ “First Lady of Jazz,” is in her element. And she is not, as one can often find her, at some popular nightclub singing on stage, […]
George Porter, Jr.: Here Comes the Meter Man
George Porter, Jr. is one of the most influential rhythm and blues players from the post-1950s generation of musicians that engineered the revolution in soul music that became known as […]
