For the past couple of months, OffBeat has posted a survey on our website, just to get an idea of what our readers like, their opinions on political matters related to music, how they use information ...
When singer and trumpeter Anne Linders moved from St. Louis to Boston in 2020, she wanted to put together a new version of her lively traditional jazz band Annie and the Fur Trappers. That proved to ...
Gordon Au draws upon a palette ranging from the traditional jazz of Louis Armstrong to the modern jazz of today. In New York, Gordon leads the Grand St. Stompers, a traditional jazz band called "a ...
That U.S.-hip-sounding line, strangely enough, is as British as “jolly good,” or “raw-ther.” It describes a musical fad that has washed over Britain. “Trad” is traditional jazz, the 1920s variety now ...
For years, purist fans of traditional New Orleans jazz have worried their favorite music is a dying art form. Oh, sure, something like trad jazz, loud and frenetic with a side helping of street funk, ...
The musicians seated closest to him nodded their acquiescence, but a few others were too busy chatting between numbers to have heard, and had to be shushed by their fellows. As Mazzy began quietly ...
Sorry to return to the Mercury prize for a second week, but this is only a passing spin-off from that much-discussed event. Observer music critic Kitty Empire, one of the Mercury judges, described the ...
Chicago's new home for straight-ahead, classic, Live Jazz, 5 nights a week – with an emphasis on singers. While straight-ahead jazz is our primary focus, we also love and happily present trad-jazz, ...
The Secret Six Jazz Band, led by bassist John Joyce, will take the stage April 6 to play the Dew Drop Jazz & Social Hall in Old Mandeville. The band's lineup of musicians rotates, as everyone still ...