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Astral Project Anyone who has truly experienced an Astral Project performance knows the outer limits of music’s transportive powers. The Jazz Fest Astral journey departs from the Fair Grounds […]
Blues News February 1992
Congratulations to blues Grammy nominees: TRADITIONAL BLUES: Charles Brown, All My Life; Johnnie Johnson, Johnnie B. Bad; B.B. King, Live at the Apollo; John Lee Hooker, Mr. Lucky; and Taj […]
Hammond and Nauman Scott: The Blues Brothers
It’s the early morning hours in a smoky hole-in-the-wall dive. Inside, a raw, barebones blues band digs into a deep, gutsy groove and pours the soul over clanking beer bottles […]
Blues News January 1992
In the wake of a burgeoning awareness of blues legends who have received little or no recognition for their contributions to the music, a group from Helena, Arkansas is making […]
Pat Benatar and Roomful of Blues: Blues Surprise
You’d have thought that if anyone was a committed female rocker, it would be Pat Benatar. Sure, early Simon and Linda Ronstadt were considered strictly pop artists and they strayed […]
Francophone Reunion
Thirty men costumed in the white blouses, short fitted jackets and knee breeches of ancient Europe arrayed themselves across the edge of the food court at the 1990 Festival International […]
A Creole Christmas: The Album
In a land where music and festivity are obsessions, the music for the world’s most revered festivity has the same objectives as elsewhere—reflecting on good times, family and friends, home […]
Big Easy Blues
“It’s the home of the blues. This place here is the home, the foundation of jazz and blues.” It’s rather hard to contradict the 80-year-old dean of New Orleans blues, […]
Quint Davis: Quint Essential, Part One
Read Part Two of this interview with Quint Davis New Orleans music is hot—we all know it and the Grammy Awards proved it. And the Jazz Fest is the major […]
NewsBeat March 1990
Well, as we’ve been saying for a long, long time, the New Orleans music scene is heating up again, to a fervor (we hope) that may match that of the […]
