MQ 20/20: Opposites Attract

Kermit Ruffins, Big Easy (Basin Street Records)

Walter Payton’s Gumbo File Band, Live “In Store” at the Louisiana Music Factory (504 Records)

Satchmo Summerfest

Leroy Jones, Back to My Roots (Independent)

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 […]

Dave Douglas, The Infinite (Bluebird/RCA)