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Kirk Joseph

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 ...

The Dreamers And The Believers

March 12, 2025

Album: Louisiana Stories
By Don Paul
Label: I/R Records
Released: 2025
Duration: 9:59

Louisiana Stories

By Don Paul

Label: I/R Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Louisiana Days, Louisiana Nights (instrumental); The Bands are Bringing Everyone Home (instrumental); Something You Got (instrumental); My Mother’s Spirit Speaks to Me Whispering of Eternity (instrumental); The Dreamers and the Believers (instrumental); Some Rain Tonight (instrumental); Colors Changing Color (instrumental); Get Your JAM On! (instrumental); Louisiana Days, Louisiana Nights; The Bands are Bringing Everyone Home; Marsha’s; Jack Groves; Something You Got; My Mother’s Spirit Speaks to Me Whispering of Eternity; The Dreamers and the Believers; Some Rain Tonight; Colors Changing Color; Get Your JAM On!; Our Trains Keep A-Comin”; Ev’ry Child is Born to be the Light of Dawn.

Marcus Rojas: Dancing with a Tree

by Michael Blake
August 5, 2018

Sometimes musicians transcend what is considered normal technique. They discover new worlds of sound and establish concepts previously unknown; concepts that even defy the practical methods that the inventors of the instrument intended. One person I know that has done just that is Marcus Rojas. In third grade he decided to play the tuba and, even ...

Plunge: In For The Out

by Dave Wayne
March 12, 2016

Trombonist Mark McGrain is one of those guys who follows his own muse. Though he's not particularly prolific, each of his albums as a leader feature some truly profound music-making. In for the Out is no exception. On his fourth album as a leader, McGrain has re-invented himself, playing with an expanded New Orleans-based group and ...

Plunge: IN For The OUT

by Angelo Leonardi
September 10, 2015

A capo del gruppo Plunge, il trombonista Mark McGrain è uno dei protagonisti del jazz a New Orleans nel decennio post Katrina. Dopo il debutto nel 1995 (Falling with Grace, Accurate Records) in un organico comprendete Bob Moses alla batteria, Avishai Cohen al contrabbasso e Marcus Rojas alla tuba, il trombonista ha ricostituito il ...