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Article: Live Review

The Blues Project - LIVE & Well in the Redwoods

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The Blues ProjectThe Paper Mill Creek SaloonForest Knolls, CAAugust 14, 2026 Some sixty years after The Blues Project first emerged from the ferment of Greenwich Village, Roy Blumenfeld led a fresh incarnation of the band into the tiny Paper Mill Creek Saloon in Forest Knolls, California. Nestled in the scenic redwoods ...

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Article: The Jazz Life

James Rivers: A Retrospective

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James Rivers was part of the backbone of the New Orleans sound, from the earliest days in the '50s until July 5, 2026 when he passed away at the age of 89. A regular at Jazz Fest, he performed there only two months earlier, his final public appearance. He's played with everyone in New Orleans and ...

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Article: Film Review

Peter Asher: Everywhere Man

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Peter AsherPeter Asher: Everywhere Man Greenwich Entertainment 2026 As the title of this documentary implies, Peter Asher was everywhere, a virtual Zelig-like figure in music history beginning in the 1960s. With the boomer theme running throughout, the film is framed around a 2019 live performance and monologue performed at Bimbo's in San ...

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Article: Big Band in the Sky

Ronell Johnson: A New Orleans Life and a Horn Played with Joy

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Born in Marrero, LA, on the West Bank of New Orleans, I am the youngest of four boys, all musicians. In addition to L.B. Landry High School, I attended St. Augustine High School, a local college preparatory school for boys. Membership in St. Augustine's Marching 100 band was significant in my music training. Ultimately, it was ...

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Article: Book Review

The Rolling Stones - The Biography

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The Rolling Stones, The Biography Bob Spitz 704 ISBN-10 : 0593489098 ISBN-13 : 978-0593489093Penguin2026 Anticipation mounts as the lights are turned down low and finally... the curtain rises and the announcement from the PA system bellows--"Please welcome the Greatest Rock 'N' Roll Band in the World--THE ROLLING STONES!

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Article: Profile

In From the Beginning: New Orleans Music History with Deacon John Moore

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Well, you know, growing up I was the golden boy of the family, because I could sing. I recall my mother singing arias from operas to herself while doing housework and playing classical and popular music on the piano in our home while taking care of the kids--13 of us all together. Her background was classical ...

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Article: In Pictures

A Musical Odyssey - Wandering The Streets of New Orleans

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Locals will tell you there are four seasons in New Orleans: football season celebrating the New Orleans Saints (affectionately dubbed the “Ain'ts" in reference to their perennial losing ways), Mardi Gras season when the town turns upside down and business grinds to a halt no matter how urgent, the dreaded hurricane season and, finally, festival season ...

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Article: The Jazz Life

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

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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 ...

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Article: Music and the Creative Spirit

Unfiltered - Ben Jaffe at Preservation Hall, New Orleans

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In the Moment, a yet-to-be-published interview put together for a New Orleans music magazine with Ben Jaffe, creative director of Preservation Hall, was actually the distillation of a conversation rather than a mere moment in time. Nor was it an interview in the dictionary sense of that word; for the most part, the Q and A ...

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Article: Opinion

The Culture War - Springsteen, Brooks and The American People

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On January 30, 2026, the NY Times featured the final opinion column by David Brooks, and two days before I heard Bruce Springsteen's first (and probably not his final) “protest" song. Somehow, they seem incontrovertibly linked in, to and with the history of this country. And to the very core of the human experience.


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