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OffBeat Magazine's Weekly Beat
      News From New Orleans and Louisiana
     Volume 9, Number 1 


12-30-10
OffBeat Publisher
 Jan Ramsey
 
M0JO MOUTH


I consider myself to be a very privileged individual to be able to have a job where I interact with the beautiful and talented musicians, photographers, writers and artists alive today. It's a dream job for someone who spent most of their "growing-up" time reading, listening to music, writing and drawing (according to my mama!).

 Today I had a visit from one of my musical heroes, Harold Battiste, Jr., who is planning to celebrate the 50th anniversary of his AFO Records, the label he created to celebrate New Orleans jazz and jazz musicians.

Read more of our conversation
here.

 
Join us at the upcoming Best of the Beat on January 28, 2011. Voting CLOSES on January 18, 2011. Go here to vote or to buy tickets. Your VIP ticket supports the efforts of the New Orleans Musicians Clinic.
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Deacon John

DEACON JOHN JOINS THE BEST OF THE BEAT


 

Here at OffBeat Central, the countdown is on for the Best of the Beat. This year, it's at Generations Hall on Friday, January 28, and we're pleased to announce that Deacon John is now a part of the event. He'll lead a tribute to our Lifetime Achievement in Music recipient Dave Bartholomew since Allen Toussaint, unfortunately, had a scheduling conflict come up that won't allow him to attend.


We're also looking forward to paying tribute to the late Alex Chilton at this year's Best of the Beat. His passing last year was recognized here in New Orleans primarily in private and low-profile events, and we're pleased that we can celebrate his career from the Box Tops to Big Star to his solo years with a band that includes Chilton alumni Doug Garrison and Rene Coman from the Iguanas, Alex McMurray, Dave Pirner, Susan Cowsill, Theresa Andersson, Davis Rogan and the Lost Bayou Ramblers' Louis Michot.


This year's talent also includes Ivan Neville's Dumpstaphunk, Red Bull Street Kings winners the Stooges Brass Band, Lyrikill and the Soundclash Allstars, Grammy nominee Chubby Carrier, Davis Rogan, the Creole String Beans, Meschiya Lake and the Little Big Horns and Washboard Rodeo. Be there for their performances, recognition of our honorees - Bartholomew, Derrick Tabb and the Roots of Music, HBO's Treme and Johnny Palazzotto - and the announcement of the winners of this year's Best of the Beat Awards. Tickets are on sale now for $29 ($39 at the door); VIP balcony packages are also available for $100.


Reflections on Alex Chilton.


Dave Liebman
NETWORKING TIME

The Jazz Education Network's annual conference started yesterday, with thousands of jazz educators from around the world in town for a series of performances, workshops, talks on panels on jazz education and jazz music. The central location for the conference is the Roosevelt Hotel, where there will be a regular slate of jazz performances by local and national musicians, but there are also concerts at Snug Harbor including a female jazz vocalists' night Thursday night and the Dave Liebman Quartet Saturday night.



Conference details and schedules.

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The Best of The Beat is on January 28, 2011 at Generations Hall! So far, our line-up includes:

  • Tribute To Dave Bartholomew featuring Deacon John
     
  • Ivan Neville's Dumpstaphunk
  • The Stooges Brass Band (Winners of the Red Bull Street Kings competition)
  • Tribute to Alex Chilton w/ Davis Rogan, Doug Garrison, Rene Coman, Alex McMurray, Dave Pirner, Theresa Andersson, Susan Cowsill, Louis Michot and more.
  • Chubby Carrier
  • Creole String Beans
  • Soundclash Allstars w/ Lyrikill and more
  • Washboard Rodeo
  • Meschiya Lake and the Little Big Horns
Tickets are $29 in advance and $39 at the door, and include food from 20 of New Orleans greatest eateries.

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With the new year comes a change to the Weekly Beat. It will continue to come out on Thursday mornings, but now OffBeat editor Alex Rawls will appear live on Fox 8 Morning News on Thursdays to talk about some of the highlights of the upcoming week. This week, he discusses Randy Newman, Girl Talk and the Prospect 1.5 show at Jonathan Ferrara Gallery.



ROAD TRIP


New Yorkers take note: This weekend, the third annual Export NOLA: Experience New Orleans Music returns to New York City. On Friday night, Sullivan Hall and The Bitter End will present Joe Krown Trio: Joe Krown, Walter "Wolfman" Washington and Russell Batiste, Honey Island Swamp Band, Grayson Capps, Amanda Shaw, Mia Borders, The Iguanas, Jamie McLean Band, Sasha Masakowski and Musical Playground, Tin Men and Khris Royal's Crescent Jam. One admission gets patrons into both shows.


On Sunday, Export NOLA's back at Sullivan Hall, this time with Henry Butler, MoBettaBrown & Soul'd U Out: featuring Maurice Brown, Rosie Ledet and the Zydeco Playboys, Mia Borders, Luke Winslow-King and Sasha Masakowski and Musical Playground.


Tickets are on sale now.


HERITAGE SCHOOL AUDITIONS


The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation is once again auditioning potential students for the spring semester of the Don Jamison Heritage School of Music. Auditions will take place Saturday, January 15 on the second floor of the Cook Fine Arts Center on the Dillard campus. For details and expectation, visit the foundation's website




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A MUSICAL PROSPECT

Prospect 1.5 continues to present cutting edge art in New Orleans with a new show, "Resounding," that opens Saturday at Jonathan Ferrara Gallery. Prospect 1.5 director Dan Cameron has curated a show of international artists dealing music's absence. What happens when its not there? Photographer Rhona Bitner, for example, shoots musically significant historical sites after the historymakers are gone. Also featured in the show is work by Fikret Atay (Turkey), Sean Duffy (Los Angeles), Tim Lee (Vancouver) and Ted Riederer (New York). The exhibition runs through February 1.


The Prospect 1.5 big picture.


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A GOOD DAY



The Twitterverse suffered apoplexy last November when Girl Talk unexpectedly announced the release and downloadability of his new album, All Day.


The Illegal-Art.net site was so jammed with traffic that it slowed to molasses for those that could get in at all. On the album, Girl Talk (Gregg Gillis) doesn't vary from a concept that has served him well; he mashes up the history of pop, rock and hip-hop music into a dizzying, funny, subtly political mix set to arena rock-sized beats. Girl Talk returns to the House of Blues Monday and Tuesday, and the show delivers the album's music along with the genuine spectacle of a stageful of fans and dancers so enthusiastic that, last time he played there, he, his table and computers were almost knocked off the stage.


OffBeat.com's traffic has grown to the point where we almost had a shutdown last week, which precipitated an upgrade in our server capacity, so hopefully we'll have mo' and bettah news to entertain you with in the future.


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COMING TO YOUR TOWN:
LOUISIANA MUSIC ON TOUR
New Orleans and Louisiana Musicians Are Heading Your Way In The Upcoming Weeks!

 

Click here for detailed schedules 


The Tin Men

TAB BENOIT

Jan 7-14 Fort Lauderdale FL Delbert McClinton Sandy Beaches Cruise

 

BIG AL & THE HEAVYWEIGHTS

Jan 8 Scott LA The Shed

 

BIG SAM'S FUNKY NATION

Jan 4-9 Fort Lauderdale FL Jam Cruise

 

MIA BORDERS

Jan 7 New York NY Sullivan Hall

Jan 9 New York NY Sullivan Hall

 

GRAYSON CAPPS & THE STUMPKNOCKERS

Jan 7 New York NY The Bitter End

 

COWBOY MOUTH

Jan 6-7 Denver CO Bluebird Theater

Jan 8 Salt Lake City UT Urban Lounge

Jan 12 Portland OR Dante's

 

DASH RIP ROCK

Jan 6-7 Denver CO Bluebird Theater

Jan 8 Salt Lake City UT Urban Lounge

Jan 12 Portland OR Dante's

 

JOHNETTE DOWNING

Jan 8 Zachary LA Zachary Reading Council

 

GALACTIC

Jan 4-9 Fort Lauderdale FL Jam Cruise

 

GARAGE A TROIS

Jan 4-9 Fort Lauderdale FL Jam Cruise

 

HONEY ISLAND SWAMP BAND

Jan 7 New York NY Sullivan Hall (early)

Jan 7 New York NY Bitter End (late)

 

THE IGUANAS

Jan 7 New York NY The Bitter End

 

ERIC LINDELL

Jan 6-8 Key West FL Green Parrot

Jan 12 Lake Charles LA Porch Coffee House

 

Sasha Masakowski

SASHA MASAKOWSKI QUARTET

Jan 7 New York NY The Bitter End

 

STANTON MOORE

Jan 4-9 Fort Lauderdale FL Jam Cruise

 

CYRIL NEVILLE

Jan 7-14 Fort Lauderdale FL Sandy Beaches Crusise

 

IVAN NEVILLE'S DUMPSTAPHUNK

Jan 4-9 Fort Lauderdale FL Jam Cruise

Jan 11 Orlando FL Plaza Theater

Jan 12 Gainesville FL Common Grounds

 

ANDERS OSBORNE

Jan 4-9 Fort Lauderdale FL Jam Cruise

 

PANORAMA JAZZ BAND

Jan 8 Brooklyn NY Red Hook Bait and Tackle

Jan 9 New York NY Association of Performing Arts Presenters Conference

 

AMANDA SHAW

Jan 7 New York NY Sullivan Hall

Jan 8 New York NY B.B. King's

 

THE TIN MEN

Jan 7 New York NY The Bitter End

 

ALLEN TOUSSAINT

Jan 9-10 Tokyo JAP Billboard Live

Jan 12 Tokyo JAP Billboard Live

 

TROMBONE SHORTY & ORLEANS AVENUE

Feb 7 Seattle WA Neumos

Feb 8 Portland OR Dante's

Feb 9 Arcata CA Humboldt Brews

Feb 10 Santa Cruz CA The Catalyst

Feb 11 San Francisco CA The Fillmore

Feb 12 Los Angeles CA Conga Room

 

For extended Louisiana Music On Tour click here.


 
FOODSTUFF

Saxophone player Martin Krusche has booked his band, the Magnetic Ear, in to the All-Ways Lounge every Sunday in January starting at 8 p.m. He will also be cooking curry free for those who attend. For more on Krusche and Indian food, read his conversation with Elsa Hahne in this month's issue.






The latest from OffBeat Eats.


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This issue, Michael Patrick Welch profiles New Orleans' boogaloo band, Los Po-Boy-Citos. The band plays the Ogden Museum of Southern Art's "Ogden After Hours" series Thursday at 6 p.m. Also that night, James "J.Y." Young and Tommy Shaw are the only holdovers from the heyday of Styx, but they'll come sail away at the House of Blues with whoever else is now in the band. Alex McMurray is at the Saturn Bar that night, and the Creole String Beans are at Chickie Wah Wah. Curley Taylor plays Zydeco Night at the Rock 'n' Bowl, and Snug Harbor has a Jazz Educators Network-themed show with "Singers of Song" featuring Roseanna Vitro, Maria Marquez, Sachal Vasandani and Cindy Scott.


On Friday night, Randy Newman performs at the Mahalia Jackson Theater for the Performing Arts, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band plays the Maple Leaf, and Clockwork Elvis and Bonerama are at the Rock 'n' Bowl. Kermit Ruffins and the Barbecue Swingers are at the Blue Nile, John "Papa" Gros is at d.b.a. and Mykia Jovan and Jason Butler play the Blue Nile.


On Saturday night, the Dave Liebman Quartet plays Snug Harbor in another Jazz Educators Network Conference-oriented show. Also that night, the Soundclash Beat Battle returns to the Howlin' Wolf's Den. John Boutte plays the early show at d.b.a. and the Maple Leaf presents "The Queen's Balls" with Johnny Sketch and the Dirty Notes.


Sunday, Debbie Davis performs at 7 p.m. at Three Muses, and Andy J. Forest plays at BMC.


On Monday, the Tim Laughlin Quartet plays Fritzel's European Jazz Pub, and Papa Grows Funk's at the Maple Leaf.


Tuesday, the Thelonious Monk Institute Ensemble's at Snug Harbor and Dana Jessen, Helen Gillet and Bhob Rainey are upstairs at the Blue Nile.


Wednesday, Tom McDermott and Meschiya Lake play an 8 p.m. show at Chickie Wah Wah, followed at 10 by the Iguanas. Also that night, Irvin Mayfield and the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra are at Irvin Mayfield's Jazz Playhouse.


 

Here are listings for the two venues which were misprinted in the January issue:


 

CHICKIE WAH WAH

 

Thursday, January 6

8pm Creole String Beans

 

Friday, January 7

5:30pm Happy hour featuring the Pfister Sisters

8 pm Dave Stryker Quartet

10pm Ogya Band

 

Saturday, January 8

8:30pm Newton Hippolyte

9pm Ogya Band

 

Monday, January 10

8pm Jon Cleary

 

Tuesday, January 11

8pm John Mooney

 

Wednesday, January 12

8pm Tom McDermott and Meschiya Lake

10pm The Iguanas

 

 

IRVIN MAYFIELD'S JAZZ PLAYHOUSE

AT THE ROYAL SONESTA HOTEL

 

Thursday, January 6

5pm- 8pm Roman Skakun

8pm Shamarr Allen

 

Friday, January 7

5pm - The Professor Piano Series featuring Tom McDermott

8pm - Leon "Kid Chocolate" Brown

12 Midnight - Burlesque Ballroom featuring Trixie Minx and Linnzi Zaorski

 

Saturday, January 8

8pm - Jaz Sawyer's Crescent City All-Stars

12 Midnight - Brass Band Jam featuring Brass-a-Holics

 

Sunday, January 9

7pm - Tyler's Revisited featuring Germaine Bazzle

and Paul Longstreth

 

Monday, January 10

8pm - Bob French and The Original Tuxedo Jazz Band

 

Tuesday, January 11

8pm - Ed "Sweetbread" Petersen

 

Wednesday, January 12

5pm-8pm Sasha Masakowski

8pm - Irvin Mayfield's NOJO Jam featuring the Music of Alvin Batiste



For complete listings, go to OffBeat.com.


NEW AND UPCOMING
LOUISIANA CD RELEASES



Chris Ardoin:

Headliner

(NuStep4Lyfe)

   


 

 

 

  

January 18, 2011

Chris Ardoin: Headliner (NuStep4Lyfe)

J. the Savage Band: Very Same Dream (Independent)

Delfeayo Marsalis: Sweet Thunder (Troubadour Jass Records)

 

January 22, 2011

Raphael Bas: Harmonouche (Independent)

Don Fontenot and Friends of Louisiana: Wide Open (Swallow)

 

February 4, 2011

The Real Cool Killers: Parades and Saints (Independent)

 

February 22, 2011

Steve Riley & the Mamou Playboys: Grand Isle (Independent)

 

March 1, 2011

Aaron Neville: Icon (Hip-O Select)

Lucinda Williams: Blessed (Lost Highway)

 

March 19, 2011

Drew Young: Home by the River (Good and Plenty)

 

March 21, 2011

Cyril Vetter with Butch Hornsby: Dirtdobber Blues (Book & CD) (LSU Press)

 

RELEASED IN DECEMBER 201:


Harold Battiste: The Sounds of Harold's Horn (AFO Foundation)

John Berthelot: A Retrospective (Great Southern Records)

Bradley Bridges: Kill the Bottle (Independent)

The Consortium of Genius: Music for Supervillains!!! (Independent)

Cowboy Mouth: Mardi Gras (Valley Entertainment)

Patrice Fisher: Sunset (Independent)


Tom Fitzpatrick: Chillin' At The Point (Immersion Records)

Eva Frishberg: Waking Up (New Range Records)

Michaela Harrison: Love's Divine (Independent)

Joe Krown Trio with Walter "Wolfman" Washington & Rubbell Batiste, Jr.: Triple Threat (Independent)

Steamboat Willie: The Legend of Jack Daniels (Independent)

The White Bitch: Brass Balls (Bongoworld Records)

 
 

Read reviews of the latest CDs!  


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 A WEEK O' MUSIC LISTINGS
...plus more special events!

Creole String Beans

THURSDAY JANUARY 6

Check out Chickie Wah Wah featuring Creole String Beans at 8 p.m.

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FRIDAY JANUARY 7

Check out Le Bon Temps Roule featuring CR Gruver at 9:30 p.m .and Los Po-Boy-Citos at 11 p.m.

Click here to view all club listings:

 

SATURDAY JANUARY 8

Check out Rock 'n' Bowl featuring Rockin' Dopsie, Jr. at 9:30 p.m.

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SUNDAY JANUARY 9

Check out the Maple Leaf featuring Joe Krown Trio at 10 p.m.

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MONDAY JANUARY 10

Check out d.b.a. featuring Glen David Andrews at 9 p.m.

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TUESDAY JANUARY 11

Check out Margaritaville featuring Butch Fields at 2 p.m. and Brint Anderson at 7 p.m.

Click here to view all club listings:

 

WEDNESDAY JANUARY 12

Check out Irvin Mayfield's Jazz Playhouse at the Royal Sonesta Hotel featuring Sasha Masakowski at 5 p.m. and New Orleans Jazz Orchestra featuring the music of Alvin Batiste at 8 p.m.

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CLASSICAL

 

JANUARY 3-31

Trinity Artist Series: Albinas Prizgintas presents this eclectic concert series every Sunday throughout January at Trinity Church, 1329 Jackson Ave. Check the OffBeat daily listings for scheduled performances. 5p.

 

JANUARY 7

Randy Jackson: Oscar-winning film composer Randy Newman performs with the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra at the Mahalia Jackson Theater. 8p. (504) 523-6530.

 

CONCERTS

 

JANUARY 7

Erykah Badu: The R&B singer and songwriter comes to the Baton Rouge River Center Theater. 8p.

 

FESTIVALS

 

JANUARY 6

Twelfth Night: Celebrate the official start of the Mardi Gras season with a parties and events around the city, including the annual Krewe of Phunny Phorty Phellows' streetcar ride.

 

JANUARY 7-8

Louisiana Fur & Wildlife Festival: Take a weekend road trip out to Cameron and celebrate Louisiana's rich history of hunting and trapping with live music, great food and family fun.

 

JANUARY 8

Battle of New Orleans Anniversary: Take a trip out to the Chalmette Battlefield and relive the Battle of New Orleans with re-enactments, living history encampments and more. (504) 589-3882.

 

SPECIAL EVENTS

 

JANUARY 1-29

Gretna Farmer's Market: Head to Gretna every Saturday for a farmer's market featuring food and wine vendors and cooking demonstrations. 8:30a-12:30p.

 

JANUARY 1-29

Sankofa Marketplace: Held every Saturday in the Lower 9th Ward, this market features fresh produce, arts and crafts, live music, health screenings, children's activities and more.

 

JANUARY 6-27

Ogden After Hours: Visit the Ogden Museum every Thursday evening for live entertainment by a variety of local musicians. Check the OffBeat daily listings for a schedule of performances. 6p.

 

THEATER

 

JANUARY 7-9

Jason Graae: We're not really sure what this show is about but it's bound to be funny. Cabaret Le Chat Noir. Fri. & Sat. 8p, Sun. 6p. (504) 581-5812.

 

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