Donald Harrison, Real Life Stories (Nagel Heyer)

Derek Douget: Perpetual Motion (Lockout Records)

Derek Douget: Perpetual Motion (Lockout Records)

Lionel Batiste: Everybody’s Favorite Uncle

As Lionel Batiste, Sr., walks around the Tremé neighborhood where he’s spent his life, people wave from their front stoops and car windows shouting, “Hey Unk!” He knows everyone and […]

Stanley Crouch On Louis Armstrong

Jazz critic and author Stanley Crouch presents the keynote address to open the educational seminars at the Satchmo SummerFest (August 2-4). Crouch, who returns to the sessions on Saturday to […]

Branford Marsalis, Footsteps Of Our Fathers (Marsalis Music)

Dwayne Dopsie & the Zydeco Hellraisers, Now It Begins (I Vibe Life Records)

Dave Douglas, The Infinite (Bluebird/RCA)

Bo Dollis & the Wild Magnolias, 30 Years…and Still Wild! (Aim Records)

The Dirty Dozen Brass Band

Gregory Davis distinctly remembers a comment made to him 25 years ago when the Dirty Dozen Brass Band was in its infancy. On hearing the unconventional take the ensemble applied […]

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