JazzFest

JazzFest Moment: Mahlathini & Mahotella Queens

I am going through serious withdrawal. JazzFest is just weeks away. Absent some confluence of miracles, I won’t be there for the second year in a row. After a thirty five year run. The realities of being firmly into my octogenarianism are manifest. As much as it pains, prudence must prevail. But it’s ever on […]

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Ray Charles and Me: Rock & Roll Memories

The story’s been told before. But it’s my favorite about Ray Charles and me. The time I didn’t hear him when I intended to. At JazzFest. As I’ve written many times over, one of the cool daily rituals during Fest has been the krewe gathering in the evening for some sumptuous meal, pulling out our […]

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