Issue Articles
Letters November 2004
JAZZ FEST CANNOT BE IMPROVED I am responding to your OffBeat email [Weekly Beat] in which you make the comment regarding the Austin City Limits Music Festival: “an event our […]
Letters October 2004
ALIENATING FUTURE GENERATIONS In the late ’80s I got re-interested in the New Orleans music scene for various reasons. Great new releases from the Neville Brothers (Yellow Moon), the Dirty […]
Letters September 2004
PROVOCATIVE JAZZ “Provocative” is the word that a number of those present at Dr. Frederick Starr’s keynote address to this year’s Satchmo SummerFest used to describe his characteristically thoughtful and […]
Letters August 2004
IN OUR MIDST Congratulations again and again for being such a fine publication and right here in our midst. —Allen Toussaint, New Orleans, LA HONESTLY I’d like to take this […]
Letters July 2004
OPEN LETTER TO THE NEW ORLEANS AND LOUISIANA MUSIC COMMUNITY By Jan Ramsey As many of our readers and WWOZ listeners have noticed, the WWOZ Newsletter, which OffBeat began publishing […]
Letters June 2004
INTOXICATED Congratulations on a truly intoxicating Jazz Fest issue. Your recipe was righteous: Add equal parts pride and passion. Shake with consummate professionalism and a whole lotta rhythm ‘n’ soul. […]
Letters May 2004
ALLOW ROCK TO BE LOVED I was going to let the recent “My Two Cents” section of Jan Ramsey’s editorial slip by without any comment or such, but I heard […]
Letters April 2004
JOHNSON & CLAPTON I dug the double review of Eric Clapton’s latest travesty (somebody slap me!). I could just hear myself ranting some of your [Bunny Matthews] lines. —Spencer Bohren, […]
Letters March 2004
A SLAMMIN’ TIME I had a slammin’ time at the OffBeat Awards. A buddy from Tucson that did two stints in New Orleans as a producer at WWL and WDSU […]
Letters February 2004
AND THE BEAT GOES ON I, too, agree with Mr. Peterson’s letter in January’s OffBeat. I moved to New Orleans in 2001, but also will be moving back to Los […]
