September 4, 2015
Dr. John Talks New Orleans Music 10 Years...
ROLLINGSTONE — “The whole Lower Ninth Ward hasn’t really recovered, but I feel a good spirit in my heart that something is going on — music is coming back slowly,” Dr. John declares in his trademark growl, reflecting on the state of his hometown, New Orleans, on the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. The 74-year-old …
Read MoreDecember 11, 2011
NBC Nightly: A Jazzy Life
Well into their golden years, these musicians are still booking gigs and keeping crowds entertained.
Read MoreMay 16, 2009
NYT: A Long Road Back…Not a Lonely One
With his wife’s help, Terence Conley walked slowly toward a piano on a recent Thursday at the Jazz Foundation of America headquarters in Manhattan. “Play something nice,” Judith Conley told her husband as she eased him onto a piano stool. Mr. Conley, 51, steadied his fingers above the keys, smiled across the room in the direction of …
Read MoreNovember 22, 2007
NYT: Displaced Jazz Musician Rebuilds in NY
The musical Prince of New Orleans has been touring New York in vagabond shoes. “I’ve been walking around at night looking at all the clubs and the restaurants, just trying to figure out a new beginning for myself,” said Davell Crawford, 32, sitting on a piano bench recently at Roth’s Westside Steakhouse on the Upper …
Read MoreNovember 14, 2006
Village Voice: Keeping Jazz Musicians Alive
In 1918, the New Orleans Times-Picayune declared jazz “an atrocity in polite society,” and fulminated that “we should make it a point of civic honor to suppress it. Its musical value is nil, and its possibilities of harm are great.” But jazz went on to become an international language, surviving even in dictatorships that banned …
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