Music
Jonathan Bauer, Sings & Plays (Slammin Media)
“Hmm, I know that guy from somewhere,” might be the first reaction of local jazz fans on seeing trumpeter Jonathan Bauer. It’s possible that they may have initially caught the […]
Claude Bryant & the All Stars, Rude Awakening (Independent)
The newest project from Claude Bryant & The Allstars brings a New Orleans-Caribbean flavor filled with social commentary, happy feelings, and endless reasons to dance. Rude Awakening is a testament […]
Jon Roniger and the Good for Nothin’ Band, Let’s Get Lost (Independent)
Before the pandemic, New Orleans singer-songwriter Jon Roniger performed live music almost daily. His frequency and consistency have helped him stand out among the other Frenchmen Street acts. Now he […]
Eric Johanson, Covered Tracks Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 (Independent)
Like musicians everywhere challenged with survival after the pandemic devastated their gig schedules, Eric Johansen responded with a series of weekly livestream concerts. Fans requested various songs, not necessarily blues, […]
Marilyn McCoo & Billy Davis Jr., Blackbird: Lennon-McCartney Icons (BMG Rights Management)
I like to think of an album like a house. The inside of the house is the artist’s experience they want to portray. The audience doesn’t know exactly how the […]
Book Review | Judy Cooper, Dancing in the Streets – Social Aid and Pleasure Clubs of New Orleans (The Historic New Orleans Collection)
Sylvester Francis, the late founder of the Backstreet Cultural Museum, once described the experience of parading as a member of a social aid and pleasure club as feeling like “Cinderella […]
Bo Dollis Jr. and the Wild Magnolias, My Name Is Bo (Gallatin Street Records)
Big Chief Bo Dollis Jr. brought together members of New Orleans’ extensive musical “family” for his new release, My Name Is Bo, an impressively ambitious two-part project recorded at the […]
Kid Eggplant and the Groovy Melatauns, Peace, Love and Donuts (Independent)
When I popped the new album from Kid Eggplant and the Groovy Melatauns into my disc player and hit play, I had to check twice to make sure I wasn’t […]
Nigel Hall, Spiritual (Regime Music Group)
Nigel Hall burst on the scene in New Orleans like a comet. Though he already had the beginnings of a successful career as a musician before the age of 30, […]
Clint Morgan, Troublemaker (Lost Cause Records)
Based in Olympia, Washington, singer-pianist Clint Morgan comfortably inhabits the historically linked but often segregated worlds of blues, country and rock and roll. It’s all there in his third album […]
