Links to the New Orleans music scene
( updated 3 March, 2001)
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WWOZ
New Orleans 90.7 FM -New Orleans radio at its
finest, now on your web browser! Yeah you right! 
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Audio 28.8K or Click here to go to broadcast.com.
Louisianaradio.com -All Louisiana music, all the time; also a good database of links
Radio Free New Orleans- more New Orleans music to surf by
Music Magazines, Directories etc.
OffBeat Magazine - New Orleans' and Louisiana's Music Magazine: monthly music listings,
clubs and artists directories...
satchmo.com -A good online source of Louisiana music info: N.O.
club directory, schedules, music links, including a comprehensive directory
of Louisiana's musicians - The Louisiana Music Archive and Artist Directory
The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival -the official web site of one of the greatest festivals in the world!
The Louisiana
Blues Hall of Fame - Photos and Bios of Louisiana's Blues Greats!
Jazz Fest 1999 -another source of info about the New Orleans Jazz Fest
Inside New Orleans: Music- Reviews of N.O. music, searchable database of clubs, weekly live
music calendar, links etc.
NOLA Live - Sounds - associated with the Times Picayune: info. source for live music,
recommendations, music calendar etc.
The Best of New Orleans- Music - Online guide to New Orleans: descriptions of New Orleans bands,
articles, recommendations, weekly music calendar etc.
New Orleans has produced perhaps the most diverse conglomeration of musicians of any city on the planet. New Orleans is widely known as the birthplace of jazz, but perhaps less widely recognized as the cradle of rhythm and blues and funk. Long ago she was a city of Opera. She became a city of brass, especially the trumpet. She is a city of the piano. She is a city of the conga drum. She is a city of rhythm, so she is a city of the bass. New Orleans's jazz and funk drummers are among the world's best.
Over the past few years the city's children have killed each other on an almost daily basis. Thankfully this trend is slowing. Nevertheless, at the same time, New Orleans music has undergone and is undergoing a renaissance. Satchmo is crying, but Satchmo is smiling. Brass bands are alive, hot, swinging and sweatin'. The Jazz Fest is bigger than ever. The New Orleans afro-carib-latino-jazz-funk gumbo is brewing hotter than ever. There is no end to the musical talent in this city!
Notes on the list: The Musicians list is organized into the following categories: 1. Musicians you can currently see at music clubs in New Orleans (some play several days each week, others, several days a year) 2. Musicians that play elsewhere, but don't regularly play in New Orleans 3. Musicians that typically play only on special occasions like Jazz Fest and 4. Musicians that have seen their last Mardi Gras and have left us with their timeless recordings.
New Orleans is a musical gumbo: voodoo funk mixed with modern jazz, mixed with some afro-Cuban rhythm, with a little bayou rock thrown in, some country and swing for good measure, a brassy second line to keep things straight, a dash of reggae to keep everything irie, a gris gris roux of blues with a sprinkle of dixieland to top things off (oh, and don't forget a little tambourine poppin' gospel). Because New Orleans music is this outrageous, non-stop gumbo it is rarely easy to place its musicians into strict categories. Therefore, the following categorizations are used for convenience, but are at best approximations, sometimes they're just wrong: Jazz, Brass Band, R&B, Funk, Piano, Blues, Latin, Ethnic, Rock, Reggae, Rap, Gospel, Cajun and Zydeco, Cover Bands
Jazz -Do
the Palm Court strut, swing your butt!
Pete Fountain (clarinet)- a New Orleans legend, by Offbeat
Al Hirt (trumpet) - brief bio, discography by a fan
Kermit Ruffins (trumpet) -page by Satchmo - Formerly with the original
formation of the Rebirth Brass Band, now leading his own band the BBQ Swingers
(quartet or quintet) as well as a "Big Band".
Michael Ray & The Cosmic Krewe (trumpet) -page by Satchmo - Music to blow your mind.
Charlie
Miller (trumpet) -music director of Dr.
John's Band
Jamil Sharif (trumpet)
Terence Blanchard (trumpet) -page by NPR
James Andrews (trumpet) -page by NYNO Records
Charles Neville Solo (sax) -Neville Brothers' site, discography etc.
Donald Harrison (alto sax) -page by NPR
Ellis Marsalis (piano) at Sony Music, teaches and plays piano, head of the Marsalis
family
James Rivers (reeds: sax, flute, bagpipes etc.) -I'm The Man, CD info
Johnny Vidacovich (percussion)
Tony Dagradi Trio - "Live at the Columns" on Turnipseed Records: Tony Dagradi-
Saxophones, James Singleton- Bass, John Vidacovich- Percussion
New Orleans Jazz Professors
Astral Project -page by Compass Records, "Elevado" CD release
David Morgan Trio -from San Francisco, studied music in N.O., piano,
bass, drums, CD released on Turnipseed Records, audio clips, bio
Rene
Netto and the Sounds of New Orleans- Dixieland jazz, audio samples, ordering info, etc., by Bubba G's
The Original Dixieland Jazz Band
John Sinclair (voice) -sorry, dead link Blues Mental
Patient, page by IkoIko
Leroy Jones (trumpet) - sorry, no link
Nicholas Payton (trumpet) sorry, no link
Marvin Williams (bass)- dead link A new sound in
New Orleans jazz, by IkoIko
New Orleans Nightcrawlers- sorry, dead link page
by IkoIko
Bob O'Rourke (trombone) -dead link
Michael Ward (violin) -sorry dead link by Ralph Records: Bio,
info on CDs.
Brass Bands
- Feet don't fail me now! Feet don't fail me know!
The Dirty Dozen Brass Band
Lil' Rascals Brass Band
Soul Rebels
Coolbone - "Brass Vibes" review by Inside New
Orleans
Coolbone -page at Hollywood Records
The Treme Brass Band -page by IkoIko
The Rebirth Brass Band -page by IkoIko
Funk -Funkify your life! Get on down!
The Funky Meters -biography
New Orleans Juice - Self
described as Psychedelifunk
The New World Funk Ensemble
Galactic -presented by Fog City Records
Stanton Moore (drums) founding member of Galactic, now has a solo release
George Porter Jr. (e. bass) bassist for the original Meters and now with the Funky
Meters as well as his own band -page by Yatcom
George
Porter Jr. (e. bass) -the official web
site
All That
Kipori
Woods
Way of the Drum - sorry, no link formed in 1995, play RockAFunkAReggaDelic
Iris May Tango - sorry, no link
Smilin' Myron - sorry, no link
Brides of Jesus - sorry, no link
R&B - Let's try to talk it over, 'cause this is where you belong!
Old school hit-makin' New Orleans R&B was just about killed in the Beatles
Invasion of 1964. Those active today have survived and evolved through
the 70's and 80's -- they are here to bring you New Orleans own soulful, voodoo
rock 'n' roll, rhythm and blues!
Irma Thomas (voice)- the "Soul Queen of New Orleans," artist profile
by Rounder Records
Aaron Neville (voice)
Neville
Brothers -the official web site of the
New Orleans' first family
Art Neville (keyboards)
Cyril Neville & The Uptown Allstars (percussion)
Gary
Brown (sax)
Walter Wolfman Washington (guitar, voice) -sorry, no page right
now
Piano -Hey lookie there she ain't got no hair!
Henry Butler (piano) -profile
Eddie Bo
(piano) -the official web site of one of New Orleans' piano greats
Eddie Bo (piano)
John Carey Band (piano) page by Satchmo
Blues -I lost my job but I don't care.
Clarence Gatemouth Brown- (guitar, violin) -artist bio by Alligator Records
Chris Thomas King (guitar, voice, etc.)
Corey Harris (guitar) -a Denver native, but he made it to the streets of N.O.
via Africa
Kenny Neal (guitar) -Alligator Artist Bio; from Baton Rouge
Keb'
Mo' (guitar)-the official web site
John Mooney (guitar) blues magic by USA Today
J. Monque'D Blues Band (voice, harmonica) -page by Offbeat
Jumpin Johnny Sansone (accordion) -plays blues on the accordion
Sonny Landreth (guitar)-from Mississippi, moved to Louisiana,
mixes Cajun sounds with slide guitar blues
Marva Wright (voice) -N.O.'s biggest blues belter! page by Love New Orleans
Sounds
Mem Shannon (guitar, voice) -Drivin' Home The Blues, by IkoIko
Brint Anderson (guitar)- under construction
Latin -Caliente! Caliente! Caliente!
The Iguanas a good tex-mex time guaranteed, twin saxophones
help propel this fun outfit
Los Hombres Calientes the hot Latin Jazz combo that many of us have been
waiting for featuring Irvin Mayfield on trumpet, Bill Summers
(former Headhunter) on percussion, and Jason Marsalis on drums
-page at Basin Street Records
Latin Train
- relocated from the Hawiian Islands
Ethnic/Other -Hey Pockey Way!
This is used as more or less a catch-all category for groups who
fit even less into the other categories. Some are phenomena
specific to New Orleans, others New Orleans original fusions,
and, alas, the philharmonic.
New Orleans Klezmer All Stars - Nothing like you've ever heard, unless you've 'shroomed through
a Jewish, Gypsy wedding on a New Orleans Riverboat
Mardi Gras Indians - the original New Orleans phenomenon: costumes, chants, precussion,
funk, second-line yo' mind
Louisiana
Philharmonic Orchestra -a real big band
Rock -I found my thrill on blueberry hill.
This broad category includes bands that play anything from soft
pop to heavy metal, with some swing, country, blues, and folk
in-between
Paula
and the Pontiacs -Paula sings, plays
sax and harmonica while the band plays rock, blues and swing
Amy
and the Hank Sinatras -playing swing
jazz, blues and country
Mulebone -formed in 1995, the 1998 Offbeat Music Awards "Best New Rock
Band," Mark Mullins on trombone
Royal Fingerbowl -3 piece jazzy, bluesy rock
Brown Sox
Cowboy
Mouth
Dash Rip
Rock
Drew Young - relocated to the Crescent
City from Athens/Atlanta, GA
Anders Osborne
Continental Drifters
Peabody -pop, rock band formed in 1990, female lead vocalist a la Natalie
Merchant
The Radiators
Lump's
Digital Dump punk band with brass and reeds, well
done web site
Bingemen -home of the now disbanded roots rockers at Satchmo
Ginger Quail -punk band, audio clips
Verge -pop rock band
Clearwater -rock, blues, ska, funk band
17 Minutes
Love Grin
-pop, rock with melodic female vocals, good web site
Rigid -3 piece rock
band
Smack -hard rock band from 1995
Tom's
House -pop vocal group- guitar,
bass, drums, keyboards
Zebra -heavy rock vocal group- guitar, bass, drums, keyboards
Mark Carson's Home Page -pop
Andi Hoffmann & B-Goes
- Andi from Switzerland became fascinated with the Crescent City on a visit
in '93, he decided to stay and put together a band to play funky, multi-cultural
roots rock.
Reggae -Lively up yourself.
Reggae
Revealers
Rap -relatively new on the scene. Rap doesn't find so many friends
in this city steeped as it is in musical tradition.
The Ghetto Twiinz- at Virgin Records
Juvenile -"a hot rapper with more than ten years experience of ripping
shows, dropping cold-as-ice lyrics and laying it down for 'Uptown' New Orleans"
-page by Cash Money Records
Big Tymers -"New Orleans hip-hop has its own unique flavor steeped
in the city's rich musical tradition." -page by Cash Money Records
Gospel -Just a closer walk with thee.
Lyle E. Henderson & Emmanuel -singing gospel for 24 years since the age of five,
now available on CD
Cajun and Zydeco
-laissez les bon temps rouler!
These musical forms are actually from the Southwest part of Louisiana, but the
musicians listed here play in New Orleans
Chubby
Carrier
Bruce Sunpie Barnes
Bruce Daigrepont
Zachary Richard
The Freelance Pallbearers -"Blues, Funk, and Zydeco to spice up your next event?"
Cover Bands
-Play that funky music white boy.
Broadcast
The Topcats
Brother
Keyle and the Funky Beans
Heart & Soul - Dance music since 1986
Vegas Gold Show and Dance Band
WhyNOT
Oak
Alley -7 member band
for parties, weddings etc.
Soul Shop - playing soul,
R&B and that New Orleans groove thang at the Treasure Chest, private
functions and clubs.
The Super Star Band
- Playing the convention/corporate/club circuit
Dr.
John (piano)
Harry Connick Jr. (piano, voice) -the official fan page
Wynton Marsalis (trumpet)
Wynton Marsalis (trumpet) -page by Jazzworld,
Wynton Marsalis (trumpet) -page by NPR
Marsalis on Music
Branford Marsalis (sax) at Sony Music
Frankie
Ford
Chris
Smither (guitar)
Zigaboo Modeliste (drums) -former funk innovator with the Meters, now
in California
Marcia
Ball (piano) -from Vinton,
Louisiana, she plays N.O. style piano in Austin
3rd
Echo -trio playing
"New Orleans world rock" since 1990
The Dixie Cups
Clarence Frogman Henry (voice) -popular hit with 'Ain't Got No Home' -OffBeat
editorial
Earl
King (guitar) "Earl
King can be considered one of the main inventors of what has
become rock 'n roll and rhythm and blues." -page by OffBeat
Earl King -bio by Cascade Blues Association (not found 26 Feb
99)
Allen Toussaint (piano) -"He produced and arranged (and
sometimes wrote) a string of classic sides for such New Orleans
R&B artists as Lee Dorsey, Jesse Hill, Ernie K-Doe and Chris
Kenner." -page by Hall of Fame
Allen Toussaint "began emulating the piano style of Professor
Longhair while in grade school"- page by Love New
Orleans Sounds
Fats Domino (piano) -"Domino collected 23 gold singles and
sold 65 million records, more than any other '50s-era rocker
except Elvis Presley." -page by Hall of Fame
Fats Domino -an unofficial homepage for the rock 'n' roller
Dave Bartholomew (trumpet) "helped develop and define the sound
of rhythm & blues in the Fifties" -page by Hall of Fame
Jean Knight (voice) One hit wonder in 1971 with the #2 chart
topper "Mr. Big Stuff" -page by Stax
Jerry Lee Lewis (piano) -from Ferriday, LA -page by Hall of Fame
Little Richard (piano) -not from New Orleans, but made early
recordings there -page by the Rough Guide
Lloyd Price (voice) "Among the premier rhythm & blues
singers of the Fifties and Sixties" -page by Hall of Fame
Joe King Oliver (cornet) 1885-1938 "He was the mentor
and teacher of Louis Armstrong. Louis idolized him and called him
Papa Joe."-page at Red Hot Jazz
Jelly Roll Morton (piano) 1890-1941 "Jelly Roll Morton was was
the first great composer and piano player of Jazz." -page by
Red Hot Jazz
Jelly
Roll Morton photos
of and info about this jazz pioneer
Honore Dutrey (trombone) 1894-1935 -page by Red Hot Jazz
Sidney Bechet (sax, clarinet) 1897-1959 -"Sidney Bechet was
unquestionably the king of the soprano saxophone and one of the
most innovative and original clarinetists in jazz." -page by
NPR
Sidney Bechet "Bechet was one of the great soloists of early
Jazz." -page at Red Hot Jazz
Louis Armstrong (trumpet) 1900-1971 -"Louis Armstrong was the
greatest of all Jazz musicians. Armstrong defined what it was to
play Jazz." page at Red Hot Jazz
Louis Armstrong - A discography
Kid Ory (trombone) 1886-1973 "Kid Ory
was the greatest trombone player in the early years of
Jazz." -page at Red Hot Jazz
Mahalia Jackson (voice) 1912-1972 "Mahalia Jackson reigned as
a pioneer interpreter of gospel music whose
fervent contralto was one of the great voices of this
century." -page by Hall of Fame
Professor Longhair (Henry Roeland Byrd) (piano) -1980 "Professor
Longhair became the embodiment of New Orleans rhythm and blues at
the peak of his musical career in the late '70s." -page by OffBeat
Professor Longhair " Byrd's idiosyncratic style is a rhythmic
jambalaya reflecting the freewheeling, good-time spirit of the
Crescent City." -page by Hall of Fame
James
Booker (piano)1939-1983
"His fingers going across the keys looked like a nest of
spiders let loose on the piano." -page by OffBeat
Raymond A. Myles (voice) ---**--murdered in New Orleans,
October 1998, page by OffBeat on the most
memorable jazz fest performer I've seen, and I've seen hundreds
and I said that before he was killed for his car.
Raymond A. Myles -Knew how to work a crowd like no other---**--murdered
in New Orleans, October 1998, page by NYNO Records
Johnny Adams (voice) - 9/1998
Champion Jack Dupree (piano, voice)
Danny Barker (guitar, voice)
Downtown- Rampart St.,
French Quarter, Fauburg Marigny, Warehouse District
The
Funky Butt- A
block or so down from Donna's, jazzy, funky, jazzy
Donna's
Bar and Grill- New
Orleans' brass band headquarters on Rampart across from Armstrong
Park
Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville Cafe- serving up music all day near the French Market
The House
of Blues- big, fancy venue
drawing the biggest names on the N.O. club circuit
The Storyville District-Quint Davis' French Quarter venue, featuring
N.O. food and music
Levon Helm's Classic American Cafe- new large
venue across from H.O.B.
Snug
Harbor Jazz Bistro- New
Orleans' answer to New York's Blue Note
Cafe Brasil- almost always a party inside and out on Frenchman
St.
Dream Palace/ Reality Grill- formerly Cafe
Istanbul across from Cafe Brasil
Checkpoint Charlie's- mostly rock oriented, you
can also do your laundry and shoot pool.
The Dragon's Den - above Siam Cafe
The Howlin' Wolf- large club, good music
calendar
The
Mermaid Lounge - kinda alternative,
sells cans of Schaffer beer while you listen to sometimes noisy music
Vic's
Kangaroo Cafe
Preservation Hall- the premiere New Orleans traditional jazz venue
and music label
Patout's and The Cajun Cabin
Uptown- Magazine,
Napoleon, Carrollton
Tipitina's- The uptown original, now joined by a French
Quarter branch of the same name
Tipitina's -page at visual prospects
Mid-City Bowling Lanes - Otherwise known as the Rock 'N' Bowl,
see below
The Rock n Bowl -bowling lanes, two stages of music, food,
beer...welcome to New Orleans, Louisiana
The Maple Leaf- great N.O. music blasts through this alleyway of a
bar often packed with dancers
Jimmy's- Solid, roomy club that has seen a lot of
action
Carrollton Station- neighborhood bar across from the Trolley Station
Le Bon Temps Rouler-
neighborhood bar with fine music
Louisiana Jukebox
- Web site of the weekly television program. If you're lucky it comes
to your town. Check it out to see what you're missing.
The Red Hot Jazz Archive
-early jazz archive
Cultural Icons- site showcasing some of the work of the most well known Jazz
Fest photographer Michael P. Smith
New Orleans
Jazz National Historical Park -info on jazz and the park
Cajun Country Newsletter
SaxGourmet
Dixieland Jazz
Louisiana Music
Music Scene Listings- neworleans.com
Talk City - New Orleans music chat
Home Pages
The
Gumbo Pages- home page
MojoNO- not your usual
guide to New Orleans
A Page of (mostly New Orleans) Music
N.O. Music...Always Playing!-a N.O. music fan's page
Soul Sister's Funk Hut -WWOZ's dj pulls out the rare funk and r&b grooves
The New Orleans Web Ring -at Yatcom, browse through web pages dealing with various
aspects of New Orleans
William Ransom Hogan Archive of New Orleans Jazz
The Yat Cat's New Orleans -links to musicians through amazon.com
Jim McDonald's Images of New Orleans Musicians
-a handful of pictures of popular New Orleans musicians
Louisiana Music Factory
Louisiana Music New Orleans Pride (LMNOP) Conference
-at OffBeat
Caffeine Music -at Satchmo
Record Ron's
Stuff
New Orleans Music Store -at Satchmo
WWNO/KTLN (89.9FM/90.5FM) -web site for University of New Orleans Radio
BluesCruise -live music tours
New Orleans Opera
Festival
International de Louisiane
Record Labels & Business
Turnipseed- Independent record label, mostly jazz releases, reviews, ordering
info, some audio samples.
Superfly Productions
Thunderbird Management Group
All For One Records - AFO -A label founded by Harold Battiste focusing on modern jazz in New
Orleans.
Basin Street Records -"Basin Street Records is dedicated to the release of high
quality, New Orleans music. Our concentration is jazz, brass and funk."
Cash Money Records - independent rap label founded in 1991
Mermaid Records -label associated with the Mermaid Lounge
NYNO
Records -new label co founded by Allen
Tousaint to record New Orleans music
St. Roch
Records -"Former Red Rockers keyboardist/real-estate
developer, Gary Attardo has formed St. Roch Records, a New Orleans-based label."
Brown
Sugar Records -"Welcome to the world
of vintage Jazz, Dixieland, Hip Hop and Gospel."
SoundSuite New Orleans Recording Studio
White Oak Productions The Music Exchange
The
Best of New Orleans
Virtual Voyages: New Orleans- on-line news, weather, magazines and media
The USA CityLink Project- New Orleans
The
Big Easy- a New Orleans
guide
NOLA
Live- New Orleans' online
news, entertainment and community site affiliated with the
Times-Picayune
The
Online Mardi Gras Source - Presented by NOLA.com
Nitebeat- New Orleans bars, restaurants
neworleansweb.org- guide to New Orleans attractions, restaurants, and
tours
New Orleans Weather -at the weather channel
Y'all- Covering music across the South like kudzu
Tourdates.com- the music may be coming your way
Rykodisc
Jazzology
Records -dedicated to the
preservation of jazz and blues
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