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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 ...
Katrina's Aftermath: the Jazz City's Music Still Speaks to Our Nation's Soul
Friday, September 16, 2005 By MATT SCHUDEL, THE WASHINGTON POST The last time I was in New Orleans, I watched a funeral parade march by. About 30 musicians, serious of purpose but hardly solemn, walked down the street playing a joyous old tune to honor the newly dead, a “second line" of stragglers and celebrants trailing ...
Jack Sheldon in New Orleans
by Jim Santella
Jack Sheldon Jack Sheldon in New Orleans Kultur 2005 At a live 1984 performance in Lulu White's Mahogany Hall on Bourbon Street, Jack Sheldon and his all-star ensemble perform a program of straight-ahead jazz pieces that finds them sizzling as if there's no tomorrow. Sheldon's voice was then ...
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 ...
A Brief History of the Blues
by Ed Kopp
When you think of the blues, you think about misfortune, betrayal and regret. You lose your job, you get the blues. Your mate falls out of love with you, you get the blues. Your dog dies, you get the blues. While blues lyrics often deal with personal adversity, the music itself goes far beyond ...
Various Artists: New Orleans
by AAJ Staff
The city of New Orleans counts many styles among its diverse musical offspring, including jazz, the focus of this compilation of old and young players alike. It's a timely entry by Putumayo, a world music label whose every release comes with the proclamation that it's “guaranteed to make you feel good!" No false claim in this ...
Various Artists: New Orleans
by Jim Santella
Marching through the streets in celebration usually brings whole communities together. Perfect strangers feel as if they know each other. It happens all over the world. But in New Orleans, it's become a part of the local culture. Celebrations can take place any time, since the Crescent City is active all year 'round. Released ...
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 ...
