Music
Stover with the Voormen, Low Night Lights (Independent)
There is a lot of night in Stover and the Voormen’s new release, Low Night Lights. There is the lead-off track with the insomniac who counts the hours while debating […]
Mike Dillon, Band of Outsiders (Royal Potato Family)
The music of Mike Dillon combines many sources, yet comes out sounding unto itself. This latest report from the mind of Mike moves all over the map. Overall, it is […]
Jay Mazza, Not Just Another Thursday Night: Kermit Ruffins and Vaughn’s Lounge (Threadhead Press)
Music writer and the world’s foremost Kermitologist Jay Mazza has turned his pen and insight to one of his favorite subjects, Kermit Ruffins, for his latest book. Mazza spent many […]
The Revivalists, City of Sound with Bonus Live Disc (Wind Up Records)
The Revivalists play Jazz Fest on Saturday, May 3—Samsung Galaxy Stage, 2:05 p.m. Wind Up Records has reissued the fine disc City of Sound from the Revivalists but has added […]
DVS (Dillon, Vidacovich, Singleton), Bones (mikedillonvibes.com)
The jazz trio as a format is as old as jazz itself. However, few if any jazz trios have sounded like this one. With Mike Dillon on vibraphone and tablas, […]
Tommy Malone, Poor Boy (M.C. Records)
Most artists in fields other than popular music make their best work not in their youth but later in life, when they’ve had a time to contemplate their lives and […]
Stanton Moore, Conversations (Royal Potato Family)
Stanton Moore plays Jazz Fest on Thursday, May 1—Zatarain’s/WWOZ Jazz Tent, 2:50 p.m. This record will be a surprise to those who only know Moore’s funk work with Galactic/Dragon Smoke, […]
Fest Focus 2014: Jason Isbell
Few people in the music business pull off the triple threat of being a great singer, a killer guitarist, and an incisive songwriter better than Jason Isbell. In this current […]
Fest Focus 2014: The Gloryoskis!
When it comes to musical collaborations, one might think that a combination of the avant-garde and French leanings of Helen Gillet, the tricky folk of Myshkin, and the more popular/jazz […]
Fest Focus 2014: Phillip Manuel
As a singer and a musical artist, Phillip Manuel is always looking for something new to offer an audience. So as the 2014 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival approached, […]
