Jan Risher

Young Tuxedo and the Sheik

  Back in the fog of time, when the music industry shifted to compact discs,...

Leading A Revival   

An eccentric man of many talents, William Russell was a catalytic presence in the...

Sax Appeal

  The Lower Ninth Ward in the 1950s was a semirural village of black people, Sicilians and Croatians, living...

Louis’ Muse: A Shout-Out for Lil Hardin Armstrong

  August marked 117 years since Louis Armstrong’s birth. With the city’s greatest native son...

Henry Butler, Eternal

“No one had a left hand like him,” trumpeter Steven Bernstein told the Times...

Swamp Pop Romp

The adage that people remain loyal to the music of their youth well suits...
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Mythic Space

Congo Square occupies mythic space in New Orleans. In the mid-1700s, enslaved Africans gathered...

Spirit of Fi Yi Yi

The Mardi Gras Indians carry a cultural memory rooted in dances of enslaved Africans...

The Purple Knights

“St. Aug” Marching Into Time

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