The Entroporium

Nick over at Jazz And Conversation, a jazz MP3 blog (with conversation, natch), posted an excellent podcast in support of Nawlins community radio station WWOZ 90.7 FM. Nick is consistently interesting and has a lot of great music picks, so mosey on down to his place. After you read The Entroporium, of course. Jazz and [...]

Continuing The Entroporium’s series touching on some of its favorite New Orleans music… Wynton Marsalis is easily one of the most controversial, clever, talented and interesting people working in American music over the last twenty years. That said, he also has a catalogue that’s nearly impenetrable to outsiders. In 1999 alone, he put out nine [...]

Continuing The Entroporium’s series touching on some of its favorite New Orleans music… They won’t count this one in the death toll, but it’s demonstrative of the shock and stress that Katrina is putting on her people. Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown, surely the owner of the best New Orleans musician nickname this side of “Frogman,” passed [...]

Clarence “Frogman” Henry with some admirers Continuing The Entroporium’s series touching on some of its favorite New Orleans music… All these sad songs! Enough already! It bears remembering that the classic New Orleans funeral march is a pretty upbeat affair. Gotta get back to the funk! The New Orleans scene has a jauntiness that made [...]

This was inevitable, eh? Kanye West’s kick-ass new single mated with what’s quickly become the year’s top sound bite, narrowly beating out “Nobody anticipated the breach of the levees.” Hear it here, there and soon to be everywhere. Source: Boing Boing: Katrina: Kanye remixed, “George Bush Don’t Like Black People”

Continuing The Entroporium’s series touching on some of its favorite New Orleans music… Randy Newman isn’t really perceived as a New Orleans artist, but his impressive body of work often revisits his hometown both in content and in tone. Unfortunately, Newman is best known to non-aficionados for his soundtrack work and some of his jokier [...]

Continuing The Entroporium’s series touching on some of its favorite New Orleans music… I’m out of my depth when it comes to writing about Louis Armstrong and his importance to modern music, except to say that he’s somewhere up there with — oh, I don’t know — Beethoven, John Cage, The Beatles, Elvis Presley… Artists [...]

A friend of a friend of a friend sent out this account by E-mail yesterday. Last Saturday he managed to get into the city. Here’s what he saw: Everyone, I just returned from my first trip to Louisiana this weekend since Katrina. I spent the entire trip back trying to decide if I wanted to [...]

San Francisco, April 1906 From today’s New Orleans Times-Picayune: Brooks and his unit came to New Orleans not long after serving a year of combat duty in Iraq, taking on gunfire and bombs, while losing comrades with regularity. Still, the scene at the Convention Center, where they conducted an evacuation this week, left him shell-shocked. [...]