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Apr 28, 2025 · The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation, owner of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, has purchased Cosimo Matassa’s original J&M Recording Studios for $2.3 million. The building is ...

John Swenson started writing about popular music in 1967. He joined OffBeat‘s staff in 1999 before editing the award-winning website jazze.com for Knit Media, then returned to OffBeat in 2005. He has worked as an editor at Crawdaddy, Rolling Stone, Circus and Rock World and was a syndicated music columnist for more than 20 years at United Press International and Reuters.

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Apr 21, 2025 · The moment was triumphant—Mick Jagger inviting Irma Thomas onstage with the Rolling Stones last April at Jazz Fest and then joining… – Mark Guarino This guide should help in choosing from the panoply of cultures, rhythms and sounds available at Jazz Fest to ensure your… – OffBeat Staff Jon ...

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Fresh. Bounce Music Hits the local rap scene From January 1997 Karen Cortello, was the programming director for local rap station Q93.3 FM and wrote the hip-hop column in…

Apr 18, 2025 · Saxophonist, composer, bandleader and Grammy-winner Branford Marsalis moved back to his hometown of New Orleans in January 2024. The oldest son of pianist and educator, the late Ellis Marsalis Jr., and brother of fellow musician’s trumpeter Wynton, trombonist Delfeayo and drummer and vibraphonist Jason, he headed to the east coast initially to attend the Berklee College of Music in 1979 and ...

There are voices, and then, there are voices. Two of the absolutely most spine-tingling, toe-curling, soul-caressing voices I know belong to Irma Thomas, the long-reigning Soul Queen of New Orleans, and Tracy Nelson, former Earth Mother of the psychedelic era.

Mar 11, 2025 · The 2025 celebration known as “Super Sunday” is happening this weekend on Sunday, March 16, Mardi Gras Indian gangs from throughout New Orleans’ Indian Nation—Uptown, Downtown and across the river—gather […]