Reuters - Jun 19, 2009
R&B legend Allen Toussaint has done with his music what America has been forced to do since Hurricane Katrina laid waste to his hometown -- take a new look at what is in danger of fading away. His new...
More »AP - Dec 6, 2007
Nominees announced Thursday in top categories for the 50th Annual Grammy Awards: Record of the Year: Irreplaceable, Beyonce; The Pretender, Foo Fighters; Umbrella, Rihanna featuring Jay-Z; What Goes...
More »AP - Apr 26, 2007
The blues stage will be back when the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival opens Friday, and so will such performers as blues singer Alton Big Al Carson and singer-pianist Henry Butler. Carson, who...
More »AP - Mar 9, 2007
Grammy-winning singer John Mayer has been added to the lineup of the 2007 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. Mayer, who will perform May 5, joins headliners Rod Stewart, Steely Dan, Norah Jones,...
More »AP - Feb 7, 2007
Mary J. Blige has a leading eight Grammy nominations and her triumphant comeback was the feel-good story of the 2006. So it seems as if her coronation on Grammy night is all but assured. But as another...
More »AP - Dec 8, 2006
Elvis Costello and wife Diana Krall are the parents of twin boys. The new arrivals — named Dexter Henry Lorcan and Frank Harlan James — were born on Wednesday, according to a statement from...
More »Reuters - Aug 27, 2006
Before Hurricane Katrina hit, Tanio Hingle lived in a house in the Treme section of New Orleans with his wife and three kids, gigging around town with the New Birth Brass Band. The eight-piece played...
More »Reuters - Jul 11, 2006
Allen Toussaint and Elvis Costello brought their collaborative talent and charm to the first of two sold-out shows here to celebrate the spirit of the city of New Orleans. It was a joyous evening mitigated...
More »Reuters - Jun 19, 2006
A tribute to Milt Jackson served as a counterbalance for everything that was wrong with the 28th edition of the Playboy Jazz Festival, sold out, scorching and sad. Stefon Harris stood in for Bags, as...
More »AP - Jun 18, 2006
As Beck took the stage at the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival, he had dancers in bear suits and a band that played on water glasses and dinner plates. He also had a puppet alter-ego take a swipe at...
More »E! Online - Jun 14, 2006
Get ready, Tennessee; here come Radiohead, Tom Petty and 70,000 tour wookiees. Now in its fifth year, Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival will be welcoming fans back to Manchester, Tennessee, beginning...
More »AP - Jun 6, 2006
Elvis Costello & Allen Toussaint, The River in Reverse (Verve Forecast) Nine months after Katrina comes this welcome offspring, an unlikely pairing of musical masters united in anger and determination...
More »AP - Jun 1, 2006
Elvis Costello and Allen Toussaint had crossed paths before. More than two decades ago, the British rocker called on the renowned producer, pianist and songwriter to produce a song for him. And a few...
More »AP - May 5, 2006
It s not as if New Orleans Queen of Soul, Irma Thomas, was searching for work before Hurricane Katrina hit. The veteran singer of classic hits like Time Is On My Side had enjoyed steady work. A gig...
More »Reuters - May 2, 2006
The first weekend of the 37th annual New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival ended with a slow, elegiac version of the Crescent City standard When the Saints Go Marching In, just the kind of thing you d...
More »Reuters - May 1, 2006
It s a collaboration that grew from Hurricane Katrina, and now Elvis Costello and New Orleans legend Allen Toussaint have cemented the relationship with songs that won hearts in the battered city. It...
More »AP - Mar 8, 2006
The Boss is heading to New Orleans. A performance by Bruce Springsteen is one of 35 added to the lineup for this year s New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, scheduled over two weekends — April...
More »AP - Mar 8, 2006
The Boss is coming to New Orleans. A performance by Bruce Springsteen is one of 35 added to the lineup for this year s New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, scheduled over the course of two weekends...
More »AP - Mar 7, 2006
As a boy growing up in Chicago, Hugh Hefner says he fell in love early — and it wasn t with women. Well, actually, it was with women. But the founding editor of Playboy magazine also fell in love...
More »Reuters - Mar 3, 2006
With his latest CD, Live With the Metropole Orkest: My Flame Burns Blue, Elvis Costello builds another strong case for his prowess as a vibrant jazz vocal stylist. Previously Costello, best-known as...
More »Reuters - Feb 15, 2006
Let the Good Times Roll! Vowing to gather the biggest names in music to celebrate New Orleans, organizers of Jazz Fest on Wednesday unveiled an eclectic line-up with the likes of Bob Dylan, Paul Simon...
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