AltWeeklies Wire
Your Guide to New Orleans Jazz Festnew
The 39th annual New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, which is happening April 25-27, presents its most diverse array of musical talent ever.
With a Name Like the Gutter Twins, It's Got to be Goodnew
Longtime collaborators Greg Dulli and Mark Lanegan just released their first CD as the Gutter Twins.
Gambit |
Alison Fensterstock |
03-19-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Gutter Twins, Saturnalia
Cashing in the Housenew
Cash Money Records tries to hold on to its power and money.
Meaty Rock and Funk Coming Your Waynew
Is there such a thing as cerebral rock that doesn't suck? Johnny Sketch and Co. may be proving so with its immodestly titled fourth album The Big Awesome, which flexes the band's conservatory chops on meaty rock and funk in a way that's smart but not snobby.
Asymmetrical Tapestry of Soundnew
As science-y sounding as the title, the album is sonically understated, yet complex. It plays like a collection of lost sounds naturally magnetizing to one another and then spinning off into the atmosphere.
Hot Gypsy Jazznew
The sextet definitely rocks the tunes with aplomb, particularly Pierre Pichon's sizzling acoustic guitar, which isn't as front-and-center as one might assume from the material. The full band is constantly in play, getting the most out of the earthy sophistication of the familiar style and arranging the tunes in a perfect balance to assert its own stamp on the material while paying homage to the near perfection of the original compositions.
Tags: Swingphonicity, VaVaVoom
New Orleans' Other Saintsnew
At 73, Roger Dickerson, the 2008 honoree for lifetime achievement at the Big Easy Awards' 14th Annual Tribute to the Classical Arts, is Louisiana's de facto pianist laureate, the classical counterpart to James Booker and Allen Toussaint.
Gambit |
Noah Bonaparte Pais |
01-30-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Roger Dickerson
For the Recordnew
This is my extremely subjective tops of the pops (in no particular order) from Louisiana artists from 2007.
The Fabulous Fantoms Keep it Old Schoolnew
Back together for the first time in 30 years, the Fantoms have talked about recording again, but for now just playing together again is enough.
Gambit |
Alison Fensterstock |
12-12-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Fabulous Fantoms
Doc Paulin's Long Goodbyenew
Ernest 'Doc" Paulin, who died Nov. 20 at 100 years and four months, was a jazz patriarch in the most literal sense.
Tags: Ernest Doc Paulin
Mourning Glorynew
The Happy Talk Band's new CD There, There includes a collection of eulogizing songs about bohemian New Orleans performed by an evolving band.
Gambit |
Alison Fensterstock |
10-02-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Happy Talk Band, There, There
Four Men and Your Babiesnew
New Orleans kid-band sensations the Imagination Movers begin taping their new show for Playhouse Disney this week.
Gambit |
David Winkler-Schmit |
10-02-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Imagination Movers
It's Hard Out There for a Pimpnew
Once the subject of the documentary American Pimp, blues singer Fillmore Slim is now approaching 75 and focusing on his music.
Gambit |
Alison Fensterstock |
09-25-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Remembering Willie Teenew
New Orleans keyboardist Wilson "Willie Tee" Turbinton dies.
Joe Clay's Shake, Rattle and Rockabillynew
The rockabilly legend may be better known to European audiences than in his hometown of New Orleans.
Gambit |
Alison Fensterstock |
09-12-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Joe Clay
