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Why New Orleans Matters
by Sandy Ingham
Why New Orleans Matters Tom Piazza Regan Books/HarperCollins Hardcover; 192 pages ISBN: 0061124834 2005 It's not strictly about jazz. It's all about the city that gave birth to the music. And just as happens in that magical, mysterious place, Tom Piazza's lyrical love song to, and ...
New Orleans: New Orleans Mardi Gras
by Jim Santella
Ravaged by storms and sharing a tragic fate with neighboring communities last year, New Orleans doesn't have much to celebrate as Mardi Gras approaches. It hurts to think about the lives lost and the traditions that have been broken. Keepsake treasures have disappeared; a huge void has been left behind. However, we all know ...
Various Artists: Our New Orleans 2005
by AAJ Staff
One of the best and most tragic ways we have to know how much something matters is to go through the experience of having it taken away. To the people of lowland New Orleans, Hurricane Katrina was the end of a way of life. To the people of the United States, New Orleans herself winked out ...
New Birth For New Orleans Brass Bands
by Todd R. Brown
You could hear it almost every night of the week: the call of a trumpet piercing the air, saying, “Here is where the party's at! The booming bass drum pounding out a hip hop rhythm, and the sizzling snare building on that beat with choppy, Latin-style syncopation. The trombone crying out with baritone joy, the sousaphone ...
Phoenix Rising: A Credo on Behalf of New Orleans Recovery
by Victor L. Schermer
More than 100 years ago, a new form of music emerged. It was based on African American spiritual music, the sound and rhythm of funeral marching bands, touches of American and Acadian French folk strains, and a special blend of joy and sadness that was and remains hard to describe. The new music that came into ...
New Orleans Style
by Charlie B. Dahan
As the snow falls outside the windows at The Vault , there is one thing on our minds: New Orleans. In a matter of a few weeks, two great events occur, Mardi Gras and the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival (aka JazzFest). With these two events on the horizon, new musical product begins to hit ...
Eubie Blake at the 1977 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival aboard the S. S. President
by Ken Dryden
One of my great regrets is not having the opportunity to hear Eubie Blake in person. The closest I ever came was when he appeared at the Palm Beach Jazz Festival during the late 1970s; I had tickets to see classical pianist Vladimir Horowitz in Miami Beach on the very same day. My mother said something ...
2004 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival
by Sandy Ingham
A cornucopia is a horn of plenty, and would make an apt emblem for the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. There are horns a-plenty in the vast pool of local talent, and an unbelievably rich musical legacy, and the annual festival offers the world an opportunity to enjoy it all. From April 23 to May ...
New Orleans Jazz Heightens Steamy Movie on Lifetime
by Daniel Kassell
The New Orleans regional dialogue is just delightfully reminiscent of “In the Heat of the Night” in this new Lifetime movie based on Ann Pearlman’s book Infidelity. But that’s not why this flick caught my attention so I’ll ignore describing the steamy sex scenes and concentrate on the music because Helene Greece (EastWestMedia) sent me Basin ...
New Orleans Jazz Piano and Chicago Blues
by Roy Strassman
Henry Butler and Alvin “Youngblood" Hart Jazz Alley Seattle, WA November 28, 2000Last night Henry Butler and Alvin Youngblood Hart landed and took off again for a regrettably short three-day stint at Dimitrious' Jazz Alley through Thursday. The relatively light Tuesday night turnout was in total contradiction to the level of ...
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