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B.B. Major: The Blues Major
Although B.B. Major is 62 years old, he is just starting to make a name for himself in the field of blues. After listening to is two excellent CDs, I […]
Land of a Thousand Clubs: Mr. B’s Lounge
Mr B’s Lounge, located at 4300 Washington Avenue in a building that formerly housed the Bank of New Orleans, is one of the city’s few black-owned clubs that regularly presents […]
BackTalk with B.B. King
Mention the blues to the average person on the street and inevitably, the name B.B. King is the first image to enter their consciousness. He took the sounds of the […]
Motorway Cruising
The local artists formerly known as Tin Star got an unexpected boost when a British band with the same name started getting airplay on local modern rock juggernaut 106.7 The […]
New Venue: Sweet Lorraine’s
There’s much for jazz fans in New Orleans to look forward to in September. Not only is there the highly anticipated weekend of the 24th and 25th, when Gilberto Gil […]
Nothing’s Changed That Much… R&B Soon Gone?… ‘Bye To Lo
It’s amazing, what you find when you go through your old files. Recently, I went through every file I had in my office in my (periodic) attempt at organization. Boy, […]
Clean-Up Man: Aaron Moore, From Garbage Trucks to Gigs
The Blues may be nothin’ but a woman cryin’ for her man, or it may be nothin’ but a good man feelin’ bad, etc. etc. But it is, whether we […]
Astral Project
What’s behind Astral Project? What’s behind the longest standing, most consistently innovative and compelling modern jazz band in New Orleans? Over twenty years playing together for one thing. That in […]
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 […]
Indie-Jazz Labels Blossom & The “Can’t Miss” List
As we enter into the last Jazz Fest of the twentieth century, it is impossible not to think of New Orleans one hundred years ago, when the city was nine […]