Music
Louis Prima and Sam Butera and the Witnesses/Pete Fountain, Live Jazz From Club 15 (Request)
It is amazing how some New Orleans music, while still full of the soul and authenticity that is secreted from the pores of the Crescent City, can still sound good […]
Obituary: Jessie Mae Hemphill
(1934-2006) Singer and blues woman Jessie Mae Hemphill passed away Saturday, July 22. The world had not heard her guitar playing since she’d had a stroke in 1993, but she […]
Obituary: Barbara George
(1943-2006) New Orleans singer Barbara George passed away Thursday morning August 10 in Houma, Louisiana after a long illness of complications from hepatitis C. She was 63 years old. George […]
Bouncing Back
In the summer of 2005, writer Nik Cohn, published Triksta, which details his immersion in the world of New Orleans’ street rap and bounce music. In it, he writes of […]
The Black Keys
Straight out of Akron, Ohio, the Black Keys brought their road tested stage show to TwiRoPa as a sort of wind-down for Jazz Fest. Guitarist Dan Auerbach and drummer Patrick […]
Johnny Sketch and the Dirty Notes
Pain, Pleasure, Fear, and Opera, the latest recording from local band Johnny Sketch and the Dirty Notes, is a conceptual leap forward. After the good-natured hijinks of their first record […]
Proto-Drummer Roy Haynes Is “Not Most People”
Roy Haynes, one of the greatest drummers in jazz history, was born in Boston in 1925 and has provided the rhythms for such immortals as Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Lester […]
American Routes: Nick Spitzer’s Highway of Sounds
One of the most interesting radio programs emanating from New Orleans is the weekly two-hour show American Routes, produced on Royal Street by former State of Louisiana folklorist Nick Spitzer […]
