An eMusic Guide to New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Fest
By Britt Robson
When it comes to programming, the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival gets to have its cake and eat it too. The lineup is distinctively reflective of the region's time-honored musical traditions, but because so many styles are bound up in that history — jazz, blues, funk, soul, gospel and rock, not to mention sub-genres like brass bands, zydeco and feathered Mardi Gras Indian hoe-downs — the fest manages to be both redolent of its… more »