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Fest Focus: Shake ‘Em Up Jazz Band
FRIDAY, MAY 4—ECONOMY HALL TENT, 1:50 P.M. Molly, Marla, Julie, Haruka, Chloe, and Dizzy had all made their own names in jazz long before they came together to form […]
Shake ’Em Up Jazz Band, “Le Donne Mangiano Zucchero” (Independent)
The new kids on the block, Shake ’Em Up Jazz Band have actually been around for quite some time and it shows in their debut album, Le Donne Mangiano Zucchero […]
Jazz Fest Redux
“Happy Fest” is a springtime greeting in New Orleans, our own kind of “Aloha.” People say it to start a conversation and again to depart. I heard this greeting a […]
OffBeat’s 2017 Guide to Night Shows During Jazz Fest
Jazz Fest returns to New Orleans’ Fair Ground Race Course from April 28-30 and May 4-7, but we all know the late night shows that take place across town throughout […]
Smoking Time Jazz Club, “Ain’t We Fortunate” (Independent)
The last decade has seen a new bounty of interesting young trad jazz bands on Frenchmen Street. Old-timers like the Jazz Vipers, the Cottonmouth Kings, and the Little Big Horns […]
High Society: English import Andrew Hall celebrates 50 years of his Society Brass Band
Andrew Hall met David Bowie on just one occasion. “Wild, that was,” says Hall, sharing with textbook British dry wit the story of Bowie’s after-party for the 1970 “Night in […]
Jazz Fest Redux 2016 (Continued)
➼ Original Jazz Fest Redux 2016 by Rory Callais (RC); Sam D’Arcangelo (SD); Laura DeFazio (LD); Frank Etheridge (FE); Brett Milano (BM); Jennifer Odell (JO); Clea Simon (CS); John […]
Jazz Fest Redux 2016 (Continued)
➼ Original Jazz Fest Redux 2016 by Rory Callais (RC); Sam D’Arcangelo (SD); Laura DeFazio (LD); Frank Etheridge (FE); Brett Milano (BM); Jennifer Odell (JO); Clea Simon (CS); John […]
Dee Dee Bridgewater, Irvin Mayfield & the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra, Dee Dee’s Feathers (Okeh)
The title of this collaborative album between Grammy-winning jazz vocalist Dee Dee Bridgewater and trumpeter Irvin Mayfield & the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra, which brought home a Grammy in 2009, […]
Photos: Jazz Fest 2015, Day 1, by Kim Welsh
Jazz Fest 2015 got off to a great start, despite the churning gray clouds that opened up into a downpour around 6 p.m., forcing an early end to the first […]
