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Squeezing Out Sparks at Jazzfest 30
This year’s festival featured the best weather and the most fun in memory, a nonstop II-day house party thrown by an entire city for its friends around the world. OffBeat […]
Jazz Fest, from “A” to “Z”
A Acoustic Swiftness, SAT 4/24, LAGN, 3:10, largely acoustic guitar group that plays snazzy Latino riffs with style. Adelia, Adelia The Storyteller, SAT 4/24, KIDS, 1:30, Engaging storytelling from […]
Reflections on Jazz Fest, LMNOP and Eddie Bo
Welcome to the last-and best-Jazz Fest of this century. I think the lineup this year is one of the best we’ve had in years: Ray Charles, Fats Domino, Santana, Branford […]
Letters April 1999
“Teedy’s” Mama says Thanks As we all know, if we want it to be known, we should “put it in the paper,” and this is the one to send it […]
’99 New Orleans 30th Jazz & Heritage Festival
The 30th anniversary New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival will be held April 23-May 2. Fats Domino, Ray Charles, Branford Marsalis, Willie Nelson, Santana, The Isley Brothers, Widespread Panic, The […]
Healin’ A Comin’…Shim Sham Shapes Up…Zion Harmonizers Celebrate 60
Sometimes it’s amazing what a lot of love exists in our local music community. It’s a town where the likes of Allen Toussaint, Cyril and Gaynielle Neville, The Zion Harmonizers, […]
Best of the Beat Rules; Help For Teedy: Tip’s Expands
I wish you could have all come to OffBeat’s Best of The Beat Awards. It was absolutely the best ever, with over 1,500 musicians and music lovers attending our big […]
McCoy Tyner, Storyville and “Afro-Caribbean Brass Party” at Donna’s
On January 15th, House of Blues will host a rare non-Jazz Fest appearance by a living legend in modern jazz: McCoy Tyner. The renowned pianist and composer first gained notoriety […]
4th Annual Best of the Beat Music Awards
BLUES Best Blues Band or Performer JOHN MOONEY Runner up: Mem Shannon and the Membership Best 1998 Blues Album by a Louisiana ArtistLOUISIANA MEDICINE MAN – COCO ROBICHEAUX (Orleans Records) […]
Obituary: Raymond Myles (1958-1998)
No one would hurt Raymond Myles… But someone did; a coward with a gun snuffed out the life of the 40-year-old gospel singer and all-around entertainer. Last month, just hours […]
