We all know about Stephan Grappelli and Django Rheinhardt who fronted one of the best jazz groups of all time “The Hot Club of France.” Most are also aware of the important role France played in providing a supportive environment to jazz musicians from Sidney Bechet...
FoodMusicJustice Archive
About The FoodMusicJustice Project
In the dark years after the failure of the US Army Corps of Engineers levees (don’t call it Katrina), Jazz on the Tube produced a few hundred short articles in support of New Orleans. We also shot a lot of original video.
Unfortunately, hackers destroyed most of this site while we were focused on other matters and much of this priceless archival work was lost.
We’re in the process of trying to reconstruct it, a laborious and expensive process.
What we have been able to salvage so far were notes about our “Manchester Loves New Orleans” Project. The goal was to stimulate musical and artistic exchanges between the UK’s hippest music city and New Orleans.
The two cities have strong historical connections. If you throw Liverpool into the mix, the case can be made that modern pop music was invented by a collaboration between these two places.
– Ken McCarthy
FoodMusicJustice
Uncle Lionel Batiste
One of the rare and beautiful things about New Orleans his how integrated live music is with daily life. This used to be the norm. Now New Orleans seems to be the last place in North America where this is true. And more than that, New Orleans has a music community...
Agenda for Children – New Orleans and Louisiana
I finally found a good resource on the state of children in Louisiana and New Orleans. The group is called Agenda for Children and I found them by WALKING past their office on St. Charles. Thank goodness for the power of random ambling. This statement from their web...
Dos Americas: The Reconstruction of New Orleans – Trailer
New Orleans is being rebuilt, to a surprisingly large extent with undocumented Hispanic labor. How are these workers being paid and treated. In all too many cases, not too well.
Sweet Home New Orleans
Last summer, we put our friends Larry Blumenfeld and David Aman together. Larry writes about New Orleans music scene for the New York Times and the Village Voice. David is a local videographer (and chef!) David created some videos for Larry to show at the...
Thelonious Monk