MUSIC: Good RockIng Forever

On the errant afternoon when I can steal away to the Louisiana Music Factory, the workday stresses melt and I plant myself in the aisles, perusing CDs, scanning the liner notes, knowing there’s never enough money to leave with everything I want, yet feeling ... happy. The ambience of a record...

TRUMPETERS IN A LINE

The revival of a tradition or the end of a revival

MUSIC: THE SECOND-LINE IN TIME

The Black Men of Labor

In the world before Katrina there was a guy I saw each year at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, who carried an umbrella in the...

MUSIC: Harry Connick Jr.

A love song to the old hometown

MUSIC: Strings the Thing

Hot Club of New Orleans

MUSIC: Second Time is a Charmer

A music writer re-visits New Orleans

MUSIC: STIRRINGS FROM MADELEINE PEYROUX

Madeleine Peyroux has a voice of silk and honey with echoes of Billie Holiday that make you catch your breath. She spent a stretch in New Orleans with a band several years ago, and her set at the pre-Katrina Jazz Fest was a showstopper – one to bestir the masses to visit the nearest Starbucks,...

MUSIC: Seasoned Greetings with GREGG STAFFORD

By the second week of December I start rummaging through the stacks of CDs not shelved – the ones stored in a cabinet under the bookcase, a knee-high closet so stuffed that I recoil from the loss of order. The books are organized for swift, as-needed selection. The CDs are half-way there, so many...

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JAZZ NIGHT IN BYWATER

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MEET THE ZOZO SISTERS

Linda Ronstadt and Ann Savoy�s Adieu False Heart