Listening to 300 Years of New Orleans Music: Playlist

Songs that inspired our tricentennial music issue

The Next Generation Considers the Next 300 Years

Tulane 2018 graduate Justin Gitelman spoke to members of the New Orleans music scene's next generation. Read what they had to say, and listen to his interview with NOCCA and Berklee grad Khris Royal.

High Society and the Myth of the Jazz Festival

Newport may not be Shakespeare’s Forest of Arden, but the film’s plot revolves around the myth of the festival as a way to turn sorrow to joy and bring the major players to romantic bliss

New Orleans Jazz Makes Room for All the Grooves

New Orleans has an unfair reputation as a city where the only jazz that people play is a century old

Echoing Your Voice: Trent Reznor’s New Orleans Sojourn Leaves a Mark

Reznor was damaged goods when he moved to New Orleans in 1995

Ha

The video for Juvenile's hit shows a community that was often ignored, despite the enormous contributions it was destined to make to popular music and culture in the United States

A-Maze-Ing: The Legacy of Maze featuring Frankie Beverly in New Orleans

Generations of black New Orleanians have made the band one of their favorites of all time

The Captain of Moving Crowds: DJ Captain Charles

Over thirty years, the DJ has impacted local music as much as traditional musical royalty

Child’s Play

Of all the choices that young people make, they almost never regret the music

Canal Street: A Hemispheric Boundary

That uptown–downtown negotiation wasn’t just a local one. It was tectonic: the two great cultural regions of the hemisphere were crunching into one another.

Turn Your Radio On

I was stopped at the light at Rampart and Canal the first time I heard Fats Domino sing “I was standing, I was standing on the corner of Rampart and Canal." This constituted an ultimate cosmic New Orleans moment.

Buona Sera

“Buona Sera” is New Orleans through and through, a song suffused with both poetry and party.

Fats, Fess,"Snag-A-Tooth Jeannie," the Meters and Bobby Marchan

Musicians, authors, artists, filmmakers and others share their favorite New Orleans songs

"Muskrat Ramble," "Blue Monday," Mahalia, Metal

Musicians, authors, artists, filmmakers and others share their favorite New Orleans songs

Bechet, Booker, K-Doe, "You Are My Sunshine"

Musicians, authors, artists, filmmakers and others share their favorite New Orleans songs.

Dr. John, Allen Toussaint, Elvis Costello and a fan from Liverpool

Musicians, authors, artists, filmmakers and others share their favorite New Orleans songs.

New Orleans Expatriates: Satchmo and Lil Wayne

People abandon their midwestern suburbs. They escape their very important northeastern jobs. They come to New Orleans for a taste of freedom represented, in part, by the artistic work of the greatest trumpet player who ever lived and the “greatest rapper alive.”

I’ll Fly Away

The hymn “I’ll Fly Away” has long functioned as a signal of that transition from solemnity into celebration

Noise

It all became an aggressive gesture, a call into the night. We were still here.

Listening to 300 Years of New Orleans Music

Editor's letter and table of contents

Ghosts of ’OZ