Monday- December 20, 2010- The Christmas Concert Series at St. Louis Cathedral in Jackson Square will take a decidedly blues turn this evening at 6 PM when the great guitarist and singer performs.I have seen “Wolfman” perform hundreds of times but I have never heard him play a holiday song. But he is a versatile [...]
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Saturday- December 18, 2010- this evening the House of Blues will be the place to be for one of best dual parties I have ever attended. Kermit is an unabashed Christmas fan who fulfilled a life time dream when he released a Christmas album last year. It’s still available from Basin Street Records.He will also [...]
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Friday- December 17, 2010- come out early to the Maple Leaf Bar this evening from 7- 10 PM for a full line up of pianists and vocalists. There will also be a sneak peek at the Bayou Maharajah film. Musicians expected to participate include Tom Worrell, Tom McDermott, Ronald Markham, Bill Malchow, Josh Paxton, CR [...]
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Thursday- December 10, 2010- The first annual event is to benefit the Second Harvest Food Bank and their partners. The show will also feature a very special holiday tribute to Marva Wright. Please bring a non-perishable food item and/ or an unwrapped toy item. There will also be a raffle of holiday gift items.Here’s the [...]
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The Night Tripper, born Malcolm Rebennack, joins Neil Diamond, Darlene Love, Alice Cooper and Tom Waits as the latest inductees into the Cleveland-based institution. Dr. John was a session player during the 1950s heyday of R&B in New Orleans before becoming an unlikely star at the height of psychedelic 1960s. His first album, Gris-Gris, appeared [...]
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Tuesday- December 14, 2010- This evening the AllWays Lounge on St. Claude Avenue is the place to be to hear some of the most inventive music that the world has to offer. Tatsuya Nakatani is one of the most compelling improvising musicians of his generation. He has re-imagined the standard drum set up to include [...]
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Sunday- December 13, 2010- this evening the bassist James Singleton brings his adventurous trio back to the Frenchmen Street jazz club. The ensemble, which features Mike Dillon on vibes, percussion and whatever else he can get his hands on and the saxophonics pioneer Skerik, will have a special addition tonight. The keyboardist extraordinaire Larry Sieberth [...]
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Saturday- December 11, 2010- The good folks at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation, the organization that puts on the annual Jazz Fest, bring us the 3rd annual event at the he Jazz & Heritage Center, which is located at 1225 N. Rampart Street from 10:30 AM to 6:00 PM. Admission is free. Here’s [...]
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Friday- December 11, 2010- Free Fridays continue this evening at the uptown club with a party for Big Chief Monk Boudreaux. Joseph “Monk” Boudreaux has led the Golden Eagles Mardi Gras Indian tribe since the 1970s. His first foray into recording his music was a live effort from the famed H&R Bar in Central City. [...]
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Thursday- December 9, 2010- this evening the Mid City club on Canal Street will be hosting one of the great Texas songwriters. Hancock is best known for his work with Joe Ely and Jimmie Dale Gilmore in the group, the Flatlanders. They first recorded in the early 1970s, but were not met with much critical [...]
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Tuesday- December 7, 2010- late this evening, beginning at 11:35 central time, New Orleans’ own good time trumpeter and Basin Street Records recording artist will be a special guest on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. If previous guest appearances are any guide, Ruffins will sit in with the house band for the entire broadcast. Since [...]
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Monday- December 6, 2010- this evening the patriarch of the New Orleans jazz family will take the altar at the church in Jackson Square for the latest installment of the Christmas New Orleans Style concert series. The performance starts at 6 PM and I expect tasteful renditions of some of the holiday standards.
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Saturday- December 4, 2010- this evening one of the hottest saxophonists to emerge from the Crescent City in the past 15 years headlines at the French Quarter club on the corner of Esplanade Avenue and Decatur Street. Fletcher first made a name for himself playing with the trumpeter Terence Blanchard after his studies at the [...]
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This past summer’s no-cover concert series on Friday nights was such a success for the uptown club that they have decided to continue it on selected weekends throughout the regular year. Tonight’s featured acts are Supagroup, Brah and the Happy Talk Band. Brah is the only band on the lineup I am not familiar with [...]
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The nominations for the Grammy awards were announced last night and Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews leads the New Orleans nominees with his “Backatown” album, which appears in the Contemporary Jazz category. It’s was produced by Galactic’s Ben Ellman. For a full list, check grammy.comDr. John, who has won a Grammy five times, is nominated in [...]
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Wednesday- December 1, 2010- beginning this evening and continuing through the month of December the powerhouse vocalist will be performing at the uptown club. Jenn’s voice can go from a whisper to a scream and she is as comfortable playing jazz standards as she is belting the blues. Tonight Dave Pomerleau of Johnny Sketch and [...]
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Tuesday- November 30, 2010- this evening you can catch the cream of the crop of local musicians who are busy bending genres while you are listening to the same ole thing. At 10 PM, WATIV Mashup appears at the Open Ears series upstairs at the Blue Nile. This band features Will Thompson IV on keyboards, [...]
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Friday- November 26, 2010- this evening the saxophonist Aurora Nealand will be leading the band in paying tribute to one of the three most important jazzmen to emerge from New Orleans. Though Bechet (pictured) spent the better part of his life living in Paris, he was born here in 1897. Joining Nealand will be Tom [...]
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Wednesday- November 24, 2010- this evening, Davis Rogan will be celebrating the release of his new CD at the uptown bar with a band that features Efram Towns (pictured) of the Dirty Dozen Brass Band on trumpet and Craig Klein of Bonerama on trombone. The first 100 paying guests will receive a CD single, which [...]
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The versatile New Orleans drummer and bandleader died on November 19, 2010. He was born in 1930 and like so many of the post World War II generation of players, Gardner was comfortable in virtually any style of music. In his later years, he was best known for leading a crack traditional jazz band that [...]
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