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The Spyglass Chronicles: 9/01
“The Night Of” HBO. For many viewers the denouement of this addictive mini-series was as dissatisfying as that moment from yesteryear as the screen went black with Tony Soprano and his family sitting...
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TV Review Podcast: “Soundbreaking”
You all know me to be a rock & roller of long standing. Part of the obsession for me has been to try and learn as much of the trivia, as much of the back story, as I can. Thus I love such...
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JazzFest #30: It’s Too Late To Stop Now
The winter of ’05-’06 was not easy. Every day or two I’d have a sad sad moment. I would suddenly abandon whatever was present and break down with uncontrolled sobbing. It was not that my beloved...
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JazzFest ’17: The Day Before My 30th
God, how I love this place. New Orleans is, as New Orleans has always been, it’s own kind of spirit force. May it never change. The Professor — my pal not Longhair — who attended many Fests with his...
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JazzFest ’17: Let’s Get the Real Party Started
One last check in from the periphery. When I finish this I’m off to Day I. But first I need to forgive. Some folks, even if wearing garb proving their attendance at previous fests, don’t know what they...
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JazzFest ’17, Day I: Souled Out & Sated
There’s a fundamental miscalculation that plagues just about all of the spate of contemporary retro-style R & B singers. It’s a disturbing tendency for them to oversell their songs, an apparent...
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JazzFest ’17: A Soggy Sayonara
So my pal Marc — He’s the frat brother who introduced me to JazzFest in ’76 — and his bride Jill — Recall she’s a Louisville gal who hooked up with her groom at a Little Feat concert during Derby in...
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Meditation: In Memory of Gregg Allman
‘Cause time goes by like hurricanes/ And faster things. Pop up thunder showers this Memorial Day Saturday. It’s not unusual in my neck of the woods. So I chose a movie over one or another of a couple...
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Crescent City is Calling My Name
Am I obsessed? Well, I guess. Thus, truth is I really didn’t need the first t-shirt. At least not “now” which is when I wanted it and got it about the time of the Cubes reveal. Nor the second one the...
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JazzFest Eve: The Tribes have Gathered
So, Suzette, she of Mitchell and Suzette, the Connecticut couple the Film Babe and I met several years back as we all were strolling to the Louisiana Music Factory for the Day Before Pow Wow, is...
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JazzFest Day #1: Sidi, Samantha, Flutes, Fiddles & Tres Hombres
My favorite t-shirt of the day is as good a place to start as any. While walking in my direction the clean shaven, apparently pretty middle of the road kind of fellow, saw something in the crowd that...
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JazzFest Day Deux: Sona, Hora, Aurora & Fats
Though I didn’t realize it then, my affinity to New Orleans music dates back to my first 45s, which I listened to on a $19.95 record player I bought with my own earned money at Ben Snyder’s Department...
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JazzFest Day 3: Dirty Notes & a Gulp of Chocolate Milk
My apologies for the lateness of these musings on the first weekend’s final day. Sleep deprivation and the exigencies of being beamed back from that other universe to real life are my excuses. Sorry...
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“Mystery Train”: Rock & Roll RePast
If contemplating the origins of rock & roll, the music that delivered a haymaker to Eisenhower’s America in the mid 50s, one can never stray too far from Elvis. Soon enough after Dewey Phillips big...
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Two Lady Shouters Extraordinaire: Rock & Roll RePast
One of the great uses of rock & roll in a movie soundtrack — my personal favorite — comes in Martin Scorcese’s portion of the otherwise forgettable three short films released as one feature in...
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JazzFest 2019: The Day Before
There is a burning question for those of us obsessed with the anecdotia of rock & roll, especially that of New Orleans. Why is that Allen Toussaint, a fellow on the Mount Rushmore of American...
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JazzFest ’19, Day 2: Sometimes Enough is Enough
There are now two days at JazzFest when I have been simply sated, had my fill even though there was tuneage left to be heard, when I was OK to bid adieu before the music stopped. In 1988, I felt...
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JazzFest ’19, Day 4: If You Don’t Go, You Don’t Know
(My apologies for the late post. Had a Sunday night Crawfish Boil. And I chose not to drive and type at the same time while on my way home Monday.) I’m reminded of an evening years ago, at dinner with...
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“Amazing Grace”: Film Review Podcast
Concert footage of the iconic 1972 Gospel Concert by Lady Soul Aretha Franklin has finally been released, under the title, “Amazing Grace.” It languished in the vaults for decades, essentially because...
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“Yesterday”: Film Review & Podcast
Of course, the premise of the movie “Yesterday” is absurd. There’s a momentary global electrical blackout, the main after effect of which appears to be that the entire history of The Beatles is erased....
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