In a Blue Mood

One of the unexpected pleasures of the recent Sony Box set celebrating 50 years of Preservation Hall was the inclusion of some selections...

A half century ago, several New Orleans lovers decided to present performances of some of the living masters of traditional New Orleans J...

Many will be aware of my appreciation of the New Orleans Jazz Clarinetist, George Lewis, who was a central figure of the New Orleans reviv...

Emerging as part of the New Orleans Revival with Bunk Johnson, clarinetist George Lewis himself became a highly loved and influential tradit...

Arhoolie Records is celebrating its 50th Anniversary. It was a time when a California school teacher Chris Strachwitz went and met a Britis...

In 1960, noted photographer William Claxton and German musicologist Joachim Berendt travelled the United States to document the American Ar...