Issue Articles — Jazz Fest Focus
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 […]
Fest Focus: Kim Carson
Since she just lost her job, and her RV did in fact break down on a trip back from Nashville, it certainly appears that outlaw crooner Kim Carson now officially […]
Fest Focus: Los Lobos
Uncertainty can paralyze, but in the case of Los Lobos, it produced a Kiss-like outpouring of solo projects and a Grammy. In 1997, the’ band left Warner Brothers, their label […]
Fest Focus: Charles Brown
The blues of Charles Brown is urbane and stylish and sad, and jazzy in its intelligence. It seduces and enchants. It is a saxophone. In a nightclub. Two hours before […]
Fest Focus: Sonny Landreth
Sometime before dawn, a tugboat, regularly moves its freight up the darkened Vermilion River, south of Lafayette, inching through black woods and inky water. Then a lone red light is […]
Fest Focus: Randy Newman
Don’t remember much about my baby days But I been told We used to live on Willow in the Garden District Next to the Sugar Bowl – Randy Newman, “New […]
Fest Focus: Governor Jimmie Davis
“You are my sunshine, my only sunshine … “ The song’s been covered by Lawrence Welk and Cowboy Mouth, Mitch Miller and Mitch Ryder, Gene Autry, Bing Crosby, Willie […]
Fest Focus: The Band
When recent Rock N’ Roll Hall of Fame inductees The Band arrive for two Jazz Fest performances, drummer and lead vocalist Levon Helm will be commemorating an early, New Orleans-induced […]
