Issue Articles
Jazz Fest Redux
ACURA-CY Few things in life stay as enjoyable year after year as they were when first encountered, but the New Orleans Jazz Festival is an event I never find disappointing. […]
Jazz Fest 2000: From A to Z
When you want to make a complicated thing simple, you break it down to the ABCs. When you want to get a handle on an event as sprawling as Jazz […]
The Meters, The Meters/Look-ka Py Py/Struttin’ (Sundazed)
The Meters: The Meters/Look-ka Py Py/Struttin’ (Sundazed)
Squeezing Out Sparks at Jazzfest 30
This year’s festival featured the best weather and the most fun in memory, a nonstop II-day house party thrown by an entire city for its friends around the world. OffBeat […]
100: The 100 Essential Louisiana CDs, Part 9
In late 1997, the Offbeat staff began developing the list of the 100 Essential Louisiana CDs. Our goal was to pick the 100 compact discs that, Individually, represented influential and/or […]
Jazz Fest, from “A” to “Z”
A Acoustic Swiftness, SAT 4/24, LAGN, 3:10, largely acoustic guitar group that plays snazzy Latino riffs with style. Adelia, Adelia The Storyteller, SAT 4/24, KIDS, 1:30, Engaging storytelling from […]
Best of the Rest: The Top 11 Acts Not Booked at This Year’s Jazz Fest
A break down of the worthy bands that did not make it to the 1999 Jazz & Heritage Festival lineup, in the May 1999 issue of OffBeat Magazine.
