Coming soon – a must have for any “Pops” fan. This release has been co-produced and with liner notes by none other than the author of the terrific biography What a Wonderful World: The Magic of Louis Armstrong’s Later Years. Bravo Ricky! JazzLouis Armstrongnew orleansRicky RiccardiSatchmoWhat a Wonderful World
We are indebted to Sandra and Allan Jaffe and Larry Borenstein. Allan JaffeAllen ToussaintJaffenew orleanspreservation hallPreservation Hall Jazz Band
Now why didn’t I think of this as the premise to a documentary? So, I’ll do it without the cameras around. Up to 722 stops already and as the Rev. Ray Cannata says in the video “Life flows from the table. NOLA is both heaven and hell – the former something to enjoy, the latter something to…
Love NOLA: Ten things you learn from living in New Orleans By Brett Will Taylor Good grief. Yesterday marked the two-year anniversary of my move from Boston to New Orleans. Has it really been two years? Has it only been two years? Forty-eight months in and it’s hard to remember ever living anywhere else. This…
From Portland to NOLA: two of my favourite places. A Week In The Life Of Zach Zamboni, Anthony Bourdain’s Cinematographer. Anthony BourdainAnthony Bourdain: No Reservationsdooky chasefoodnew orleansZach Zamboni
To mark the 5oth anniversary of Preservation Hall. We are all in profoundly debted to Allan and Sandra Jaffe. Allan JaffeJazzmusicnew orleanspreservation hallPreservation Hall Jazz BandSandra Jaffe
As usual from any Marsalis, an articulate, provocative and amusing view. It’s essentially inauthentic when I listen to it. It doesn’t sound like jazz, and I can find few situations with the exception of popular music where the music is so far removed from its roots that it’s so unrecognizable from the original form. So…
One has to hand it to Robert Plant for eventually finding his way through the dreadful ’80s and now re-establishing himself as an elder statesman without ever becoming a caricature of his former self, not trying to be perpetually hip (a la Bowie) and now no longer feeling he has to escape the burden of…
Hated by the art establishment and other literati snobs, no doubt many of them would see virtue in Andrew Lloyd Vombo. JV’s film noir perspective is a lost idealized world of menace and sleaze with elegance, strong sexy women, sinister men, sexual “deviance”, drinking, smoking, politically “incorrect behavior” . . . some mid-Atlantic world, the LA…
86-year-old returns to New Orleans, fulfilling wish of a lifetime Her eyes still light up when she talks about New Orleans. When asked the top three reasons she loves New Orleans, she quickly answers with, “the food, the music, but especially the people,” referring to her close friends and the 400,000 friendly locals who make…
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