A conversation on the current New Orleans music scene with Mark Bingham, Helen Gillet, Michael Dominici, and Jonathan Freilich

A slightly different format audio recording has just gone up on the music interviews page.  It's a four way conversation and I've left it full length for this site.

WWOZ radio DJ, Michael Dominici had the idea to take some of what has been happening in these interviews and take it onto WWOZ during his radio show.  There were time constraints that didn't allow us, with our summer schedules, to do this live so we pre-recorded it on May 28th, 2011. Mark Bingham allowed us to do the interview at Piety St. Studios so we sat down for about an hour and discussed a few things pertaining to recording, time perception, thinking of music for now, anachronistic music, and observations on a few other musicians around the scene including Quintron, Ratty

New Orleans Klezmer All-Stars at Jazzfest 2011

Someone managed to get this shot of film maker, Henry Griffin demonstrating his classic Ot Azoy dance backed up by Stanton Moore.  this is really Fresh Out The Past.  WWOZ even got involved in The Big Kibosh!  This was a truly memorable highlight from the three 20th anniversary shows.  Also on stage here are bass- Arthur Kastler; Saxophone-Ben Ellman; Accordion- Glenn Hartman, Fiddle-David Rebeck; guitar- yours truly!

 

WWOZ radio performance.

Yesterday, the quintet performed on WWOZ for their pledge drive. The group was:

Jonathan Freilich-guitar

Aurora Nealand-alto and soprano sax

Dan Oestreicher- sax

Joe Cabral- bass

Doug Garrison- drums

Energetically speaking, the performance went well; a crazy morning energy. Some precision elements flying out the window, sacrificing themselves for a rapid phoenix-like, burn up to get the energy to carry through the transmitters.