June 2019
BackTalk
- Mitch Woods talks back
Singer-pianist Mitch Woods found his thrill in the pre-rock and roll music of blues shouter Wynonie Harris, the boogie-woogie pianists Meade…
Cover Story
- Tales of LAND & SEA: You’re in good hands with Anders Osborne
Buddha and the Blues is not just an album title. It’s a road map that charts the difficult path Anders Osborne has negotiated…
Features
- Jazz Fest Redux 2019: Sights & Sounds of the 50th New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
The headline Jazz Fest Redux first appeared in OffBeat’s June 2000 issue. Although a Jazz Fest recap was published in… - Singing in Unison: The Daiquiri Queens twist Cajun music into its own special concoction
Celebrated author and noted daiquiri connoisseur Ernest Hemingway might have looked back once or twice during his lifetime, but so far…
Fresh
- MY MUSIC with Dikki Du a.k.a. Troy Carrier
“I was nine years old when I first started playing zydeco. My uncle John used to play the washboard for my… - Soundcheck: Five Questions with Gina Brown
Gina Brown has performed for social aid and pleasure club parades, at the Essence and Jazz Fests, and as the face…
Letters
- Letters to the Editor, June 2019: Where are the women?
Where are the women? The late-night Jazz Fest landscape is a monolith of the masculine: choice gigs stacked with marquee-worthy names,…
Mojo Mouth
- Music on their minds?: A Note from Publisher Jan Ramsey
The big spring festivals have come and gone and we’re gearing up for the summer doldrums. That’s the way it is…
OffBeat Eats
- Domenica redefines contemporary Italian dining in New Orleans
A decade back, Chef John Besh partnered with Chef Alon Shaya to create Domenica Restaurant in the Roosevelt Hotel, inspired by the…
Dining Out
- Dining Al Fresco in New Orleans: from wine bars to tapas and more
Enjoying outdoor dining in New Orleans. In a region named in honor of the Sun King of France, it’s no…
Reviews
- Tuba Skinny, "Some Kind-A-Shake" (Independent)
Tuba Skinny has gone all out on the band’s 10th album, Some Kind-A-Shake. Recorded at the swanky The Living Room Studio,… - Various Artists, Jazz Fest: The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival (Smithsonian Folkways)
One of the beauties of the five-CD box set, Jazz Fest: The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, is that on… - Mia Borders, Good Side of Bad (Blaxican)
Since Mia Borders is well-steeped in classic soul, you might say that her latest disc (either a short album or a… - Nick Sanders Trio, Playtime 2050 (Sunnyside)
The cover of the Nick Sanders Trio’s third album, if you’re not already looking at it, features a little girl and… - Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe, Gnomes and Badgers (Seven Spheres Records)
The comical cover illustration of the grouchy gnome and the feisty badger pointing fingers at each other is practically an uncaptioned… - Smoking Time Jazz Club, Contrapuntal Stomp (Independent)
Much like the whimsical pen-and-crayon creatures on its album cover (courtesy of bassist/bandleader John Joyce), Smoking Time Jazz Club’s tenth album,… - Uncle Nef, Love Songs (Ropeadope)
You wouldn’t think the world needed another version of “St. James Infirmary” at this point, but the one that closes out… - Greg Schatz, Amoebotics (Hot Spazz Records)
Greg “Schatzy” Schatz has made a name for himself as one of New Orleans’s key singer-songwriters and, ironically, he got there…
