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John Boudreaux
Talkin’ ’bout New Orleans: John Boudreaux
Jazz Fest 2000: From A to Z
When you want to make a complicated thing simple, you break it down to the ABCs. When you want to get a handle on an event as sprawling as Jazz […]
Ben Harper
As Ben Harper sings on the title track of his latest release, Burn To Shine, “How I miss the good old days but I’m so glad they’re gone.” His music […]
Letters October 1999
TEAR DOWN THE CATHEDRAL It seems that after nearly two hundred years of squabbling about musicians interrupting church services at St. Louis Cathedral and disturbing the peace of residents around […]
Deacon John: New Orleans’ Creole Chameleon
Deacon John Moore is talking about his new CD, Live At The 1994 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and reflecting on his career in the spacious kitchen of his […]
Jazz Fest: A Decade of Delights
New Orleans lives for its music, never more dramatically than the two weekends of sustained merrymaking that constitute the New OrIeans Jazz and Heritage Festival. Spring is full swing, magnolias […]
Groovy! Dude! New Orleans Musical Nicknames
Slim, Red, La La, Tee Tee, Foots, Nose, String Bean, Snowflake, Half A Head, June, Daddy, Pipes, Buck, Pee Wee, Queenie, Stale Bread, Turkey Neck, Groovy, Okey Dokey: sometimes it […]
Cyril Neville, Soulo (Endangered)
One of the wonders that is the Neville Brothers is the way four personalities, like points on a compass, can face in different directions yet together complete a circle. Cyril, […]
George Porter, Jr.
As pioneers in the funk genre, the Meters are widely acknowledged as one of the most influential New Orleans bands on today’s funk, groove, acid-jazz and jam bands. Their in-the-pocket […]
Nocentelli, Live in San Francisco (DJM)
Meters fans who miss the slinky guitar of original member Leo Nocentelli – replaced in the funky Meters by Brian Stoltz in early 1994 – no longer need to wait […]
