Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. The Gold Coast Jazz Society is thrilled to launch its 2024-2025 Series with ...

Tuba Skinny will launch the Gold Coast Jazz Society's 2024-2025 concert series with a performance rich in the soulful spirit of New Orleans. Formed over a decade ago, this celebrated street band is ...

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, ...

Somewhere on the road, I found Robin Rapuzzi traveling with Tuba Skinny. He’s a washboard player. Yeah, a washboard — like what you used to wash clothes with. Rapuzzi comes from New Orleans, along ...

More info: Registration required at aspenmusicfestival.com; the event will also include the American Brass Quintet, Aspen Santa Fe Ballet Folklorico and remarks by Gov. Jared Polis Tuba Skinny found ...

Singer Maria Muldaur has had New Orleans connections since she released her breakthrough solo album in 1973. “I always loved New Orleans music,” Muldaur says. “I remember when the Wild Tchoupitoulas ...

Another successful day at the fairgrounds with local and national acts unfurling at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival on Friday, April 26, 2024. Hometown hero Jon Batiste made his big ...

Charissa Joy & The Soul Shakers This new band of all-stars, with powerful singer Charissa Morrison up front and Henry Lazenby on guitar, makes its Martin’s debut. Sure, a Tommy Emmanuel show is a ...

Bill Barber, 87, a musician who helped refashion the jazz tuba from its predictable oompah passages to suit the complex melodies and rhythms of Miles Davis and other postwar jazz modernists, died June ...

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 ...

Chicago sometimes gets lost in the shuffle of rhetoric over New Orleans, Kansas City and New York as jazz focal points past and present. That's an egregious error and ...

Bill Barber, a musician who helped refashion the jazz tuba from its predictable oompah passages to suit the complex melodies and rhythms of Miles Davis and other postwar jazz modernists, died of ...