TRAVIS “TRUMPET BLACK” HILL’s second line
Only in New Orleans . . . (photos courtesy of Hill Nanny), Travis’ passing mentioned here. funkJazzmusicnew orleanssecond lineTravis “Trumpet Black” Hill
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Wynton on Pops
This from Wynton on the eve of my visit to Pops’ archives and house hosted by the one and only Ricky Riccardi. JazzLouis Armstronglouis armstrong housenew orleansPops: A Life of Louis ArmstrongRicky Riccardi
Ricky Riccardi: Keeping the legend of Louis alive
This article about the life and work of Ricky Riccardi was from exactly a year ago. I don’t think the term “disciple” is appropriate — it’s more the keeper of the flame and musical scholar — and as fate would have there is no better person to do it. I’ll be seeing Ricky at the…
Travis “Trumpet Black” Hill
What a terrible shame. One of the best if not the greatest of current funk meisters. funkmusicnew orleansTravis “Trumpet Black” Hilltrumpet
WALKER PERCY WEDNESDAY – 31
The sun is shining, people live well, go about satisfying their needs and achieving goals, work at creative jobs, attend cultural attractions, participate in interesting groups. This is, by every calculation, as it should be. Yet it was on just such a day as this, an ordinary Wednesday or Thursday, that he felt the deepest…
What Fats Domino Means To New Orleans
This just published in OffBeat He’s the original King of Rock ’n’ Roll. What else can you say? boogie woogieCosimo MatassaDave BartholomewDavis RoganEllis MarsalisFats DominoHenry Butlerjon clearynew orleansrick colemanrock and roll
Literary Louisiana
A travel article (who in N.O. talks of “the Big Easy”?) . . . and realized, once again, that there’s no better place to find Walker Percy than inside the pages of his many dazzling novels, which I’d fallen in love with years ago. a confederacy of duncesJohn Kennedy TooleLiteratureLouisiananew orleansphilosophical literatureTennessee Williamsthe moviegoerTruman CapoteWalker Percywilliam…
Tennessee Williams Festival
The very excellent Paul Oswell reports. Literaturenew orleansPaul Oswellshelby footeTennessee WilliamstheatreWalker Percy
Finding Walker Percy
Another nice piece by Toole biographer Cory MacLauchlin. a confederacy of duncesButterfly in the TypewriterCory MacLauchlinJohn Kennedy Toolenew orleansphilosophical literatureWalker Percy
Walker Percy Wednesday – 26
I shrug. There is only one thing I can do: listen to people, see how they stick themselves into the world, hand them along a ways in their dark journey and be handed along, and for good and selfish reasons. It only remains to decide whether this vocation is best pursued in a service station…
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