Issue Articles
Fest Focus: The Jordan Family
“Jazz is a chance music,” says Edward “Kidd” Jordan, a music explorer, a lover of 20th century music, an educator, a saxophonist and the patriarch of one of New Orleans […]
Fest Focus: The Paulin Family
“A Fellow can’t learn you no jazz, you’ve got to learn that yourself,” says Ernest “Doc” Paulin who has played traditional jazz for some 68 of his 88 years. A […]
Q&A with Wynton Marsalis
I remember the first time I interviewed Wynton Marsalis some 10 years ago. I came away from that discussion with a sense that the young trumpeter, then only 25-years-old, felt […]
The French Quarter Festival, April 12-14, 1996
The French Quarter Festival (April 12-14), which began as a way to lure locals back into the Quarter, is now celebrating its 13th year. Part of the idea was to […]
