August 2004
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- Ratty Scurvics' Vagabond Heart
"I was playing with this band, Coprolingus: a lotta noise, a lotta drums, almost like Stockhausen with [mumble mumble]..." Master musician…
BackTalk
- Maurice Brown
Trumpeter Maurice Brown is undeniable. He can blow. Consider this—the only names to appear weekly on Snug Harbor’s schedule are Marsalis…
Bayou Boogie
Bluesworthy
Cover Story
- Troy Andrews: Identity Crisis
Troy Andrews smartly sums up his multi-dimensional musical milieu when, with a laugh, he explains, “It’s like Trombone Shorty presents Troy…
Feed Me Something, Mister
Hidden Charms
- Lollipoppin' with Little Bob
Like so many of the world’s greatest albums, it stayed in print just long enough to become a cult classic. Forever…
Jazzin'
- Trolsen's On The 'Bone
Rick Trolsen’s latest album, Gringo Do Choro, dances with Brazilian choro music and the works of composer Pixinguinha. To many, the…
Letters
- Letters August 2004
IN OUR MIDST Congratulations again and again for being such a fine publication and right here in our midst. —Allen Toussaint,…
Live Wire
Mojo Mouth
- Hot Fun at SummerFest
They said it was impossible. No one would come. A festival in the heat of a New Orleans August? No way!…
St. Rock
Reviews
- Lars Edegran's Palm Court Jazz All Stars, Palm Court Jazz All Stars Vol. 4 (GHB Records)
- Hot Club of 52nd Street, Chessky Live Sessions (Chessky Records)
- Marce Lacouture, La Joie Cadienne (Cut Up Records)
- Linnzi Zaorski & Delta Royale, Hotsy-Totsy (Independent)
- The Storyville Stompers, A Brass Menagerie (Independent)
- Various Artists, Funk: The Language of New Orleans, Volume 8 (Louisiana Red Hot Records)
- James Brown, Soul on Top (Verve)
- The Jay B Elston Band, High Class White Trash (Independent)
- Maria Muldaur, I'm A Woman: 30 Years of Maria Muldaur (Shout! Factory)
- Schatzy, Unraveling (Independent)
- J.J. Cale, To Tulsa and Back (Sanctuary Records)
- Jackie Caillier/Ivy Dugas and the Cajun Cousins, Greatest Hits and More (Swallow Records)
- Thomas "Big Hat" Fields, Big Hat Zydeco Mix (Maison de Soul)
- Darryl Reeves, Diary of a Bandstand (Contemporary Music)
- Creole Classique Ensemble, Carnevale: Songs of Fantasy & Longing (Independent)
- Liese's Living Room, What's Eating You? (Independent)
- Alexandra Scott, Spyglass (Independent)
- The Forever Fabulous Chickenhawks starring Luther Kent, Deep in the Heart (Louisiana Red Hot Records)
- 007, Studied Rudeness (Independent)
- Sol Fiya, Heaven She Rides (St. John Recordings)
- Tim Zenner, Startin' Tuesday (Cloverbelt Records)
- Angelstorm, Rise from the Ash (Set-Fire)
- T-Sale, T-Sale (Swallow Records)
- Ellipsis, But A Breath (Independent)
- Marc Broussard, Carencro (Island/Def Jam)
- The Neville Brothers, 20th Century Masters - Millennium Collection: The Best of the Neville Brothers (A&M)
- Sanford Hinderlie, Hinderlie Plays Hinderlie: Solo Piano (STR Digital)
- Big Blue Marble, Scuba School (Independent)
- Jim McCormick, You Can't Drown Your Sorrows (Independent)
- Louis Armstrong, The Essential Louis Armstrong (Columbia/Legacy)
