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Music Quest: Vintage vinyl treasures are out there for the scoring (Episode 2)
Eclectic is a good word to describe this score of five vintage albums, and at an average cost of just $5 per album, color me a happy boy! This group […]
Meow, Monsieur! Filmmaker Jim Gabour writes about New Orleans cats
Jim Gabour, the filmmaker whose many music projects include Norah Jones: Live in New Orleans and Terence Blanchard’s Grammy-nominated Flow: Living in the Stream of Music, also writes and illustrates […]
Zoom, Zoom, Zoom: Taj Mahal with Jon Cleary
The pandemic has touched everyone’s life in too many ways. Withdrawal symptoms from life as we knew it abound as fatigue with all the fear and precautions sets in. The […]
Music Quest: Vintage vinyl treasures are out there for the scoring
In 2020 vinyl sales exceeded CD sales in the United States for the first time since the 1980s. Vinyl records accounted for $232.1 million of music sales in the first […]
Dancing in the Streets: The Historic New Orleans Collection honors a New Orleans tradition
When Sylvester Francis gave tours of the Backstreet Cultural Museum, which he founded in 1999, he often offered this sage advice: “It’s better to be two hours early to a […]
The Soul of New Orleans: Hurricane Katrina-inspired ‘Our New Orleans’ reissued on vinyl
Recorded in the chaotic weeks after Hurricane Katrina, the all-star Our New Orleans album raised $1.5 million for Gulf Coast hurricane survivors. New vinyl and digital editions of the album […]
Jon Batiste puts his musical spirit into Pixar’s “Soul”
Soul, the amusing and affecting new film from Pixar Animation Studios, adds another stellar credit to Kenner native Jon Batiste’s résumé. Batiste—the pianist, recording artist and bandleader for The Late […]
Ken Burns’ “Jazz” returns to PBS
Jazz, Ken Burns’ 10-part history of jazz music, gets a 20th-anniversary encore in January. The series’ first episode, “Gumbo,” returns to public television stations on January 7—almost exactly 20 years […]
Faux Mac — Singer Greg Hardy unmasked himself
A longstanding Dr. John mystery was solved online just a few months ago. It concerns a strange album called Zu Zu Man, that the fly-by-night Trip label released around 1975. […]
A Special Place in Her Heart for Ellis: Filmmaker hopes to bring Marsalis documentary about the beloved pianist to the big screen
Filmmaker Sascha Just has a special place in her heart for New Orleans. Not only is it a place where the Berlin native visits several times a year, it was […]
