OffBeat Magazine - May 2018

In this issue

Cha Wa; Bayou Boogaloo; Tony Hall; Big Sam's Funky Nation; and more.

Charles Neville 1938-2018

Saxophonist Charles Neville—forever known to fans as “Charlie, the horn man”—was the secret ingredient in the Neville Brothers’ mix, the brother whose jazz instincts took them to another level. Neville, who died last month of pancreatic cancer at age 79, was also a link to the fabled days of the Dew Drop Inn, where he began performing in the ’50s.

3 mins

Traversing The Map

The Soul Rebels trombonist Corey “Passport P” Peyton raps with global ambition.

4 mins

300 Songs For 300 Years

Keyboardists

7 mins

Chief Of Chiefs

Robert Nathaniel Lee and the Mardi Gras Indians of New Orleans, 1915-2001.

4 mins

Sharp Dressed Man

ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons on taming that beast.

4 mins

We're Comin' for Ya!

Cha Wa creates a mashup of Mardi Gras Indian chants and brassy horns.

10+ mins

Margot Denman/N7

“I made a cocktail for Walter ‘Wolfman’ Washington because when I first moved to New Orleans I got a job at Boucherie uptown and one of my regulars was Hank Staples of the Maple Leaf—such a sweet man. He’d come to the bar and have dinner and write his name on a paper napkin and we’d call them ‘hankies’ [laughs].

2 mins

Tony Hall Talks Back

Bassist, guitarist, drummer, singer and songwriter Tony Hall’s myriad accomplishments include co-founding Dumpstaphunk. The deep-grooving funk-jazz-soul quintet came together in 2003 for an Ivan Neville appearance at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival.

8 mins

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