Jazz Articles about Alex Belhaj

Alex Belhaj's Crescent City Quartet: Sugar Blues

by Dan Bilawsky
November 26, 2014

Trad jazz isn't trending on Twitter or climbing the charts, but that doesn't mean it's completely irrelevant in today's musical landscape. There's still a segment of people, both on the delivering and listening ends, who enjoy the way multiple horns can snake around one another in a polyphonic dance of joy, supported and driven by guitar and bass below. Many of these people find themselves drawn to New Orleans, where the music first took firm shape, and that's where the ...