Two things become apparent when taking a look at the life of Allen Toussaint (besides his talent and class): The amount of great music that New Orleans has...
Category - New Orleans
Slowly and inevitably, the rock and roll pioneers are passing away. Chuck Berry died in March and Fats Domino earlier this week. It’s inevitable, natural...
The Red Hot Jazz Archive calls Johnny Dodds one of he greatest clarinetists of the 1920s. The site says that two other greats of the day — Sidney Bechet...
It’s really hard to believe the first sentence of Wikipedia’s profile of Jon Cleary. It says he was born in Kent, England. But it’s Wikipedia, and so it is the...
We are very lucky that there is a tremendous amount of video of Dr. John on YouTube, and I encourage everyone to check it all out. Most of it is very good...
Here is the start of AllMusic’s profile of The Neville Brothers, one of the most important of the many great bands and performers to come out of New...
Professor Longhair was a New Orleans piano player who greatly influenced Dr. John. Here is the first paragraph of an interesting site dedicated to the colorful...
Editor’s Note: The Daily Music Break often re-posts music from earlier in the run of the site. This is a good one. It initially was posted on April 12...
