Krewe du Vieux Plans Brass Band Blowout; Narvin Kimball, Phil DeGruy Release Debuts

The Skatalites, Hip-Bop Ska! (Shanachie)

Nicholas Payton, From This Moment (Verve)

Rick Margitza Revisits His Adopted Hometown; The Jazzier Side of the Dragon’s Den

An OffBeat Interview with Wynton Marsalis

Wynton Marsalis is a very prolific writer, but most of compositions have been of the musical variety—notes on staffs rather than words on paper. Until now. The New Orleans-born, multiple […]

Jazz for the Underage Crowd; A Swinging Christmas at the Orpheum

Germaine Bazzle, Standing Ovation (AFO)

Papa Don Vappie’s New Orleans Jazz Band, A Christmas Present (Vappielle)

Butch Thompson, Yulestride (Daring)

Doc Cheatham, Swinging Down in New Orleans (Jazzology)