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: Duke Robillard
The accolades of his fellow musicians serve as a testament that guitar legend Duke Robillard is perhaps one of the most respected names in the blues world. Muddy Waters once […]
Fest Focus: Jon Cleary
Jon Cleary has clearly arrived, and now he has a new recording to follow suit. Mooburn his long-awaited major label debut for Virgin/Pointblank Records, is set for release April 20 […]
Fest Focus: Theresa Andersson
Her soft speaking voice is extremely deceptive, for Theresa Andersson uses words that express confidence about music and her future in, it. There’s no reason why she shouldn’t. The vocalist/violinist/songwriter […]
Fest Focus: Marva Wright
The Blues may be “nothing but a woman cryin’ for her man” I as the great Georgia White once observed. Unfortunately for the blues world, there are precious few women […]
Fest Focus: Mamou Prairie Band
“This band has never been this, tight,” says Randy Vidtine, guitarist with the rising Mamou Prairie Band. A Cajun music veteran since his high school days in Evangeline Parish, Vidrtine […]
