Forget "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon." In New Orleans, it's more fun to play three degrees of David Torkanowsky. As a piano player and band leader, Torkanowsky is equally comfortable pushing the edges ...

Pianist David Torkanowsky brought a high-octane band of Crescent City originals to the New Orleans Jazz Fest on Friday, for a show that bridged his passion for Louisiana root music and probing jazz ...

Growing up in Metairie, Louisiana--a mere six miles from New Orleans--alto saxophonist Randal Despommier's formative experiences were rooted in the Crescent City's fertile sonic soil. A stone's throw ...

Earlier this season, the normal overflow crowds enjoyed music wafting through windows at the Dew Drop. (Kara Martinez Bachman) The creaky wooden floors and narrow benches that almost seem like pews in ...

NEW ORLEANS — Music lovers are spinning records again. According to the Recording Industry Association Of America, last year (2022), vinyl albums outsold CDs for the first time since 1987. New Orleans ...

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Among the beer-parlor dance halls that once dotted New Orleans was one modest wood building with a tar-paper roof in the Faubourg Marigny, just outside the French Quarter, called Luthjen’s. Until it ...

There’s a solid link between the birthplace of jazz and the birthplace of the outdoor music festival. For many years, New Orleans musicians have been well represented at the Newport Jazz Festival. The ...

The surprise was real when Constantine Georges walked into his birthday party at the beautiful home of Alexa Georges and Jerry Armatis in the Garden District. Delicious food and drink, fabulous people ...

As fall officially begins, it's another fairly busy week for jazz and creative music in St. Louis, so let's go straight to the highlights: Tonight, the vocal group Take 6 will make their debut at Jazz ...

Harry Shearer is using quarantine as an opportunity to celebrate New Orleans piano. Together with special guests, the actor, comedian and musician has released Piano New Orleans, a compilation of ...