August 2023
Cover Story
- Expect the Unexpected: Shamarr Allen keeps it True Orleans
Shamarr Allen is riding high on touring across the country with the imminent release of the True Orleans 2 album, his…
BackTalk
- Yusa Talks Back
Yusa Breathes Her Dreams To Life: Yusa is a world citizen born in Havana, Cuba and now residing in New Orleans.…
Features
- Music Can Be Dangerous To Your Health. Yes, really.
Are you a musician who’s starting to lose your hearing or who suffers from tinnitus? Or a sound man or even… - Linda Aubert Refuses to Be Pigeonholed
Linda Aubert is a shining star of New Orleans who branched out and took her music around the world before eventually… - Around the World in a Song: Or Shovaly Finds His Way
Even before guitarist Or Shovaly’s arrival from Israel, he was developing a keen wide-ranging virtuosity. He’s known mostly in New Orleans… - My Music with Warren Battiste
Life Is Good, Warren Battiste at 97 Speaking with Steve Masakowski led me to Warren Battiste, a treasure house of stories…
Fresh
- Beyond the Trumpet and Traditional Jazz: Louis Armstrong's Influence
It is widely acknowledged that Louis Armstrong—Satchmo to some, Pops to others—had a huge, world-wide influence on jazz music. Most often,… - Louis Armstrong Center Opens
Across the street where Lucille Armstrong bought a home for her traveling husband is a new 14,000 square-foot building, the Louis… - New Orleans Jazz Museum Staff in Paris
Members of the New Orleans Jazz Museum staff traveled with a group of New Orleans musicians to France in June. The… - Lucinda Williams' Life Story—Anything Can Happen
Following recent books by Mary Gauthier and Bobby Rush, Lucinda Williams’ Don’t Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You is another… - Vintage vinyl treasures (Episode 29)
The intense heat of late has many of us spending more time indoors. While catching up on paperwork, cleaning and exercising… - This Is Why: Paramore, live, after a five-year hiatus
On July 6, 2023, the rock band Paramore stopped at Smoothie King Center on their This Is Why tour. It was…
Dining Out
- Dining Out: Sun Chong
Larry Morrow refers to himself as a “serial entrepreneur.” Since 2018, he has opened a Cajun and Korean restaurant Morrow’s; Treehouse,…
Obituaries
- Loren Pickford (1945-2023)
Multi-instrumentalist, Loren Pickford has passed away. Known primarily as an aggressive alto saxophonist, Pickford had a big, robust sound similar to… - Barry Martyn (1941-2023)
We learned that drummer and New Orleans resident Barry Martyn has passed way. Several months ago, Martyn fell down his stairs…
Reviews
- Jon Batiste: World Music Radio (Verve/Interscope)
About three-quarters of the way through the 21 tracks on this album, Jon Batiste’s first since he won five Grammy Awards—including… - Leroy Jones: New Orleans Brass Band Music Vol. 2 (with Wendell Brunious) (Independent)
Fans of traditional New Orleans-style brass bands are going to dig this album that pairs two of this city's ace trumpeters… - Seva Venet: No Grown-Ups Here (Independent)
As the title of this album suggests, No Grown-Ups Here is directed towards children lyrically, melodically and in spirit. Seva Venet,… - The Flóki Sessions: Boots in Place (Floki Studios/Color Red)
Eddie Roberts, the guitarist for the New Mastersounds and the mastermind behind the innovative label Color Red presents Boots in Place,… - Yoshitaka Tsuji Trio: Happy Hour (Independent)
Yoshitaka Tsuji Trio is recognized locally as the pianist with Kermit Ruffins & the Barbecue Swingers and by his nickname Z2.… - The Duane Bartels Band: Electric Baby Carriage (Baby Boy Bartels)
Originally songwriter-guitarist Duane Bartels intended to visit New Orleans for a day. That was seven-and-a-half years ago. Not only is he… - Davy Mooney: Way Back (Sunnyside Records)
On Way Back, New Orleans native guitarist Davy Mooney gets together with old friend saxophonist John Ellis to create magic as… - Cameron Fontenot: A Tribute to the Fiddling Greats (Independent)
Hats off to Cameron Fontenot for releasing a different kind of debut album. Whereas most debut albums symbolize the arrival of… - Maude Caillat Quartet: Follow the Camel (Independent)
Saxophonist and flautist Maude Caillat makes her debut album leading her progressive quartet on the ambitious Follow the Camel. A native… - Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah: Bark Out Thunder Roar Out Lightning (Ropeadope)
Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah, formerly known as Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah, celebrates the cultures of New Orleans Black Indians, West Africa… - Gov’t Majik: The Bass Age (Independent)
Gov’t Majik’s new release, The Bass Age, opens with a percolating keyboard riff amid the relentlessly funky bass work of the…
