Gordon Gano, co-founder of and songwriter for alt-rock monoliths the Violent Femmes returns to the scene he helped spawn with Under the Sun, which was released on Yep Roc Records on September 15. The band will hit the Hi Ho Lounge for a stripped-down set this Friday, November 20, 2009. On Under the Sun, [...]
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The New Orleans-based supergroup composed of local residents drummer Stanton Moore and vibraphonist/percussionist Mike Dillon along with saxophonics mad genius Skerik and keyboardist Marco Benevento will be performing at D.B.A. this evening to celebrate their new recording, Power Patriot. The album was recorded in New Orleans and showcases the eclectic group’s compositional abilities. While [...
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Chickie Wah Wah will be the place to be tonight for a concert paying tribute to the great New Orleans drummer James Black. Black was monster player and composer whose music has influenced at least two generations of New Orleans musicians. Galactic’s drummer Stanton Moore will lead a trio that also features saxophonist Tony Dagradi [...]
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It has been argued that if the singer Germaine Bazzle had not devoted her career to teaching, she would be right up there in the pantheon of great jazz vocalists. She doesn’t perform very regularly these days, but she is appearing at Chickie Wah Wah this evening with the Todd Duke Trio. These shows [...]
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Not all parades in New Orleans are second lines, jazz funerals, or Mardi Gras ones. Everyone once and a while we have a chance to see something completely different (I have been watching the Monty Python retrospective and relish the chance to use the phrase). The Fringe Festival, which is going on all around [...]
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This evening, November 13, 2009, keyboardist Brian Coogan will take the stage on Frenchmen Street with his band that includes alto saxophonist Aurora Nealand, trumpeter Jamelle Williams, tenor saxophonist Allen Dejan, guitarist Danny Abel and drummer Eddie Christmas. I have only seen this band once, but they were on fire. Coogan, who is mostly [...]
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For a long stretch, the saxophonist Loren Pickford lived in New Orleans. He tended to play with much younger musicians including a great run with the New World Funk Ensemble back in the 1990s. Though I never really spoke with him much, he always struck me as a be-bopper with serious Bohemian credibility. Just [...]
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Attention New Orleans musicians! The deadline for submitting your application to perform at the French Quarter Festival is this Sunday, November 15, 2009. The application can be downloaded from their site at fqfi.org or e-mail the music manager at greg@fqfi.org.
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With trumpeter and musical entrepreneur Irvin Mayfield’s name in the news again, perhaps it’s time to make a visit to the Royal Sonesta Hotel for the NOJO jam session. Mayfield has been linked with the developer Stewart Juneau and his plans to convert the shuttered-since- Katrina Municipal Auditorium into a multi-use entertainment complex. Today’s Times-Picayune [...]
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Xavier University presents “Sidney Bechet: Wizard of Jazz this evening, November 10, 2009 in the Mary and William McCaffery Ballroom in the University Center. The concert and discussion about the life of the New Orleans-born clarinet and soprano saxophone legend begins at 7 PM. Featured performers include alto saxophonist Donald Harrison, Jr. and Dr. [...]
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The Bywater Mirliton Festival has been one of my favorites of the little fests that dot this town during the nine-month festival season. It’s hard to believe it’s been going on for twenty years. Yet, they are still tweaking the set up and moving the stage to the far end of the playground really opened [...]
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Beginning at 11 AM this morning and extending until 7 PM, Markey Park, located at the corner of Piety and Royal in the Bywater neighborhood, will be the scene of one of the most unusual and eclectic festivals on the annual calender of New Orleans. The Mirliton Festival celebrates the humble squash with live music, [...]
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The CubaNOLA Arts Collective and Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro present Roberto Carcassés- an acclaimed Cuba pianist known as the popular and inimitable leader of a new movement in Cuban music. His band, Interactivo, is a fun and funky party band that combines elements of jazz, funk and Cuban styles such as timba, rumba, and trova [...]
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Vocalists Cindy Scott and Leah Chase will be backed by Megan Swartz on piano,Cori Waters on drums & Cassandra Falconer on bass. Shows at the Frenchmen Street club are at 8 and 10 PM.
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Out of town visitors to the Voodoo Music Experience got another kind of New Orleans experience at about 5:30 in the evening on Friday, the festival’s opening day. Just as Alejandro Escovedo was finishing a scorching set that featured his rock band set up, no cello or violin like his last show in New [...]
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For years, I have heard about the Flaming Lips (Playstation Stage at 5:45 PM) with their strange leader, their crazy stage show, their shifting membership. But I never got to see them until they performed a couple of years back at Voodoo. The set just blew me away. They had an incredible number of [...]
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Mas Mamones (Preservation Hall Stage at 1:15 PM) was a driving force in integrating Latin music into the sounds of Frenchmen Street in the late 1990s. They have reunited and this performance should be special for several reasons. The late Hart McNee was part of the original version of the band and his spirit [...]
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Alejandro Escovedo (WWOZ Stage at 4:30 PM) puts on one the best shows around. He writes wonderful songs and surrounds himself with great musicians. His musical roots reflect all of the genres that are presented at the Voodoo Music Experience. He was a punk rocker in his youth, has experimented with the Tex-Mex sounds [...]
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The trombonist Mark McGrain recently released one of the most interesting and soulful recordings that I have heard in years. The record, Dancing on Thin Ice, features Tim Green on saxophone and James Singleton on bass. There is no drummer. But throughout the recording, it feels as if there is one. Singleton may be the [...]
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