Issue Articles — Jazz Fest Focus
Jazz Fest Focus: Christian McBride
Christian McBride Big Band (Second Jazz Fest Weekend) Sunday, May 3, Allison Miner Stage, 3:15p Zatarains/WWOZ Jazz Tent, 5:35 p.m. Asked to describe the musical common denominator he shares with Dianne […]
Jazz Fest Focus: Cecil McLorin Salvant
Cecil McLorin Salvant (Second Jazz Fest Weekend) Friday, May 1, Zatarain’s/WWOZ Jazz Tent, 4:20 p.m. By the time Carmen McRae comes to the final lyric of “Trouble Is a Man” during […]
Jazz Fest Focus: Monty Alexander
Monty Alexander and the Harlem-Kingston Express (Second Jazz Fest Weekend) Thursday, April 30, Zatarain’s/WWOZ Jazz Tent, 5:30 p.m. In the late ’50s, in Kingston, Jamaica, the steady diet of music feeding […]
Jazz Fest Focus: Angelique Kidjo
Angelique Kidjo (Festival International de Louisiane) Thursday, April 23, Scene Stabil Drill International Stage, 9:45 p.m.; (First Jazz Fest Weekend) Sunday, April 26, Congo Square, 1:55 p.m. Building physical bridges […]
Jazz Fest Focus: Tony Hall is James Brown
Tony Hall and the New Orleans Soul Stars’ Tribute to James Brown (First Jazz Fest Weekend) Saturday, April 25, Congo Square, 12:30 p.m. “You can’t fake the funk,” declares Tony […]
Fest Focus: Eddy “The Chief” Clearwater
Eddy “The Chief” Clearwater likes to think of himself as a performance artist. His exciting shows usually include him playing his left handed guitar behind his back, on his hand […]
Fest Focus: Irma Thomas
The Lion’s Den could only exist in New Orleans. It’s an unassuming neighborhood bar complete with a television tuned to Judge Judy, a few regulars tuned to their video poker […]
Fest Focus: Fredy Omar
“Parrandeando “: Parading, seeing and being seen. There’s no place for parading like New Orleans, and there’s no better place to see and be seen in New Orleans like Frenchmen […]
Fest Focus: Li’l Queenie
Arriving at her house late on a Tuesday evening, a torrential spring storm rendering visibility on the streets almost impenetrable. Lee Harris (a.k.a. Li’l Queenie), languidly paces on her front […]
Fest Focus: Tab Benoit
Some men are born into greatness, others have it thrust upon them; then there are people like Tab Benoit, who have to go out and hunt the sucker down. Only […]
