After crafting ragas that one can waltz to with her 2022 album Ragas & Waltzes, Madurai-born, Chennai-raised pianist-composer Charu Suri turns to the NOLA jazz sound on her upcoming album Rags & Ragas, releasing on September 8th
Trumpeter Sam Irwin would have been happy to bring his Baton Rouge traditional jazz band, the Florida Street Blowhards, to Satchmo SummerFest on Aug. 5-6 at the New Orleans Jazz
During the 1950s, the Alcoa Steamship Company offered cruises from New Orleans to points south in the Caribbean. Trombonist Charlie Halloran has created an album imagining what the music would have sounded like on the three ships plying the azure waters of the Gulf of Mexico en route to Cuba and elsewhere in the tropical