How on earth did the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ever end up in Cleveland? Here’s a sample of the rock and roll power of Louisiana and New Orleans. Fats Domino, Jerry Lee Lewis and a man who knew his way around New Orleans-style boogie woogie, Ray Charles. I’m taking...
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
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Boswell Sisters Centennial Celebtration
From our friends at Offbeat Magazine… “This weekend, New Orleans hosts the Boswell Sisters Centennial Celebration, a festival focused on the lives and music of the New Orleans sisters whose brought jazz harmonies to popular song, and influenced talents including Ella...
Joss Stone in New Orleans
I admit it. I’m an over-the-top Joss Stone fan. Rumor has it, she’ll be in New Orleans from January to March shooting a movie. I’m happy to say that I was at both of her first two shows in the US at Joe’s Pub in NYC before she “hit.” Friends couldn’t understand why I...
Army Corps of Engineers corruption revealed
Army Corps of Engineers corruption revealed by University of California professor. The New York Times won’t touch this story. Neither will the Washington Post. Here it is in a nutshell. The Army Corps of Engineers not only paid off a major engineering society to...
Hot 8 Brass Band in NYC
The Hot 8 Brass Band got a write up by Larry Blumfeld in the Village Voice this week. Larry’s documenting the New Orleans music scene post-levee failures. I look forward to every new piece he writes. From his latest: “The danger and dislocation you’ve heard about in...
