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Back to the Fest
This year’s New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival was probably the most anticipated in the event’s 36-year history. For months after Hurricane Katrina, worldwide fans of Jazz Fest wondered if […]
Back on the Beat
James Andrews added his trumpet to Fred LeBlanc and Paul Sanchez’ acoustic set. On Saturday, January 21, OffBeat presented a version of its Best Of The Beat Awards at House […]
Katrina Blues
It is more than a little strange to be back in New Orleans on the first cool-ish night of autumn after the summer that would never end. That mustard gas […]
B-3 Organ Summit
For a moment during Mo’ Fest’s B-3 Organ Summit, one could imagine that they were onboard the Riverboat President partying down at one of those glorious, long-lost Jazz Fest night […]
You Make It Sound So Bad
“A drunk woman was giving [drummer Andy Harris] a bath when I first met him,” says Joshua Glass, guitarist and vocalist for three piece post-rock outfit the Interlopers. “I asked […]
Mark Mullins
The trombone, as composer Hector Berlioz once observed, can musically portray everything from “religious accent, calm and imposing…to wild clamors of the orgy.” New Orleans trombonist Mark Mullins seconds Berlioz’s […]
Jazz Fest 2003 A to Z
Compiled by Bunny Matthews, Geraldine Wyckoff, Christopher Blagg and James Bailey. If being outside in the fresh air with thousands of other human beings in the center of a […]
Fest Focus: Theresa Andersson
“The Jazz Festival is the biggest marketing opportunity musicians have in New Orleans,” says Swedish-born vocalist/violinist Theresa Andersson.
Bourbon on the Rocks?
When the little green Martians return to their planet, when tourists from Telluride, Timbuktu and Tokyo traipse home, there are three American thoroughfares they all know: Broadway, Sunset Strip and […]
