A Day in New Orleans With The TBC Brass Band
It was Satchmo Summer Fest weekend in New Orleans, and my friends in the To Be Continued Brass Band, or TBC, had invited me to …
Month: August 2014
Mississippi's Lumber Legacy Preserved at Bogue Chitto
From the end of the 19th Century to the beginning of the 20th, Mississippi began to industrialize, and one of the main industries that emerged …
Legendary Jazz Drummer Alvin Fielder's Trio Live at @TheYellowScarf in Jackson
Meridian native Alvin Fielder was in New Orleans at Xavier University studying pharmacy when he met New Orleans’ legendary jazz drummer Ed Blackwell, and then …
Highway 51 Revisited: Forgotten Towns in North Mississippi
During the 1960’s, the new interstate highways began to bypass the old US highways and the towns along them, and gradually these towns began to …