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David Torkanowsky

A House Full of History with Leslie Blackshear Smith in New Orleans

by Thomas Cole
March 28, 2026

On the recommendation of more than one person, I sought an audience with another of the born and raised New Orleanians who have been indispensable to an education in the town's traditional music. Living a stone's throw from the river and the shadows of an imposing abandoned factory, I knocked on the peeling paint of a ...

South

By Randal Despommier

Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Go to the Mardi Gras; Southern Nights; 'Round 3AM (A Blues Nocturne); Si tu vois ma mère; Jelly Roll's Living Room; Goodbye Pork Pie Hat; Dying to Live; Blues Rheumatica; Just a Closer Walk with Thee.

Randal Despommier: South

by Dan Bilawsky
March 6, 2025

Growing up in Metairie, Louisiana--a mere six miles from New Orleans--alto saxophonist Randal Despommier's formative experiences were rooted in the Crescent City's fertile sonic soil. A stone's throw away from the action, he was able to cut his teeth on the local scene(s) and put his horn to good use in Mardi Gras parades. In addition, ...

Johnny Vidacovich: Magnet In The Middle

by Thomas Cole
November 13, 2023

The ever changing cast of the Johnny Vidacovich Trio defies the meaning of that word--trio . Historically, jazz trios with a drummer in the middle have included such notables as Art Blakey, Gene Krupa and Max Roach but none of those groups changed cast members on a weekly basis or deviated very far from what they ...

Let's Get Away

By Norman Brown

Label: Shanachie Entertainment
Released: 2022
Track listing: Back At Ya, Let's Get Away, Easy Lovin', Down Here On The Ground, L.A. Chill, Talk It Out, Wes Side Story, Late Night Drive, I Won't Hurt You, Sunset On Chandler

Things Happen That Way

By Dr. John

Label: Rounder Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Funny How Time Slips Away; Ramblin' Man; Gimme That Old Time Religion; I Walk On Guilded Splinters; I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry; End Of The Line; Holy Water; Sleeping Dogs Best Left Alone; Give Myself A Good Talkin' To; Guess Things Happen That Way.

Maria Muldaur Readies 41st Album: "Don't You Feel My Leg - The Naughty Bawdy Blues Of Blue Lu Barker" Out September 28th

September 16, 2018

When a 24-year-old Blue Lu Barker stepped up to the microphone at Decca Records studio in Manhattan in 1938 to record Don’t You Feel My Leg, she had no way of knowing that that initial recording would turn out to be such an enduring piece of blues artistry. An immediate hit, the song instantly established Barker ...

Peter Martin, David Torkanowsky to Play Duo Concert on Friday, September 23 at the Sheldon

August 4, 2011

Pianist Peter Martin will resume his eponymous series at the Sheldon Concert Hall with a duo performance with New Orleans pianist David Torkanowsky (pictured) at 8:00 p.m. on Friday, September 23. Son of the orchestral and opera conductor Werner Torkanowsky, Torkanowsky is a member of the band Astral Project and also has worked with a variety ...

New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, Days 4-7: May 5-8, 2011

by Sandy Ingham
May 26, 2011

Days 1-3 | Days 4-7 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival New Orleans, LA April 27-May 6, 2011 Day 4: Thursday May 5, 2011 Vibraphonist Stefon Harris and Blackout was the featured act in the WWOZ Jazz Tent, but Christian Scott stole the show. Scott--the young New ...