Issue Articles — Features
Donald Harrison, Jr. Comes Home
Saxophonist Donald Harrison Jr., 35, a native son of New Orleans, has just been awarded a three-year, New Residencies grant from Meet The Composer, a national composer service organization. The […]
On the Road with Preservation Hall
The French Quarter’s Preservation Hall is known around the world as a famous traditional jazz club. What is not so well known in New Orleans is just how big Preservation […]
Pieces of the Cradle
Few places that held the original spirit of Jazz still exist. ‘Those that do hide their history well. Jazz was born out of a very rare moment in history. […]
Is 1995 the Real Jazz Centennial?
Three writers weigh in with the (murky) facts and (qualified) opinions. CELEBRATING A CENTURY OF JAZZ by BRUCE BOYD RAEBURN, PH.D. Curator, Hogan Jazz Archive. There is a […]
Jazz Family Portraits by Herman Leonard
Marsalis Family Because there is a history here, we will teach it to our children. Because we have heard the sounds we will never be the same. The total expression […]
Festivals Acadiens Preview
The premiere Cajun music event takes over Lafayette Sept. 16-17 Sometimes the dance floor is consumed in a rolling dustcloud, other times two-steppers are ankle-deep in thick black mud. […]
Zydeco Fest Preview
It was three months before Labor Day in the 1982, and not a few people around Plaisance had decided that Wilbert Guillory and the folks at the Southern Development Foundation […]
White Buffalo Day
Feathers and sequins glisten in the high noon heat. Tambourines shake and drums roll, calling out to. the spirits at Congo Square. It is August 27th, 1994. A Native American […]
The Royal Pendletons
“One thing that really bothers me that I always hear in these, quote, histories of rock & roll is that from ’59 to ’64 rock & roll died.” Like a […]
