Music
Tank and the Bangas, Red Balloon (Verve Forecast)
“What’s up people?” The first voice you hear on Red Balloon, after a quick spin of a radio dial, is not Tarriona “Tank” Ball. It’s TV star Wayne Brady, in […]
We Really Love to Make You Smile: Tarriona Ball of Tank and the Bangas represents New Orleans
But it feel like Maze at Jazz Fest… If you’ve witnessed the phenomenon that Tarriona Ball—Tank to you—is talking about, well, you know. If you witnessed her say it during […]
Heartstrings: Melissa Etheridge
Melissa Etheridge will perform in the Blues Tent at Jazz Fest on Saturday, May 7, at 5:30 p.m. “I never thought that I would not have the ability to play […]
Elvis Costello Talks Back
Elvis Costello & The Imposters will perform at Jazz Fest on Friday, May 6, at 5:30 p.m. on the Gentilly Stage. Elvis Costello will participate with The Dirty Dozen Brass […]
Lakou Mizik mixes of street-band rara blasts with traditional Vodou drumming
Lakou Mizik will perform in the on the Jazz & Heritage Stage on Saturday, April 30, at 4:20 p.m. There’s a bit of a fuss going on as Steeve Valcourt, […]
Lulu and the Broadsides, Lulu and the Broadsides (Kismet Records)
“That’s a Pretty Good Love” is the opening song on the first full album from Lulu and the Broadsides—the gritty quintet fronted by Dayna Kurtz—that sits at the intersection of […]
Sabertooth Swing, Delta Bound (Fairground Records)
Nothing against the music on Delta Bound, which presents an ambitious illustration of half a millennium of violent racial and cultural conflict shaping the history of the American South. The New […]
Byron Asher & Brad Webb, Little Bigby (ears & eyes Records)
A foghorn blows through the mists enshrouding desolate docks along the Mississippi in the dead of night. And it blows again. It’s not the opening scene of a classic noir […]
Inspired by New Orleans, vocalist Carmela Rappazzo continually hones her style and songs
“I try really hard as a writer to write light and airy songs,” says jazz singer and songwriter Carmela Rappazzo. “And I suck at it.” Rappazzo is trying to identify […]
Leyla McCalla navigates her Haitian identity in multimedia production
A woman twists and gyrates, seemingly deep in a trance, silhouetted behind a screen on which images of other ceremonial dancers are projected. She emerges onto a dark stage and […]
