Music Inside Out

Givonna Joseph and her New Orleans-based troupe, OperaCréole, tackle some of opera's most challenging works with gusto, including early compositions…

By his count, Wendell Brunious knows more than 2,000 songs. Some are from the Great American Songbook, some are traditional, swing and bebop jazz gems and…

German artist David Helbich first coined the term “Belgian solutions” when he moved to Brussels in the early-2000s. It refers to the ad-lib alterations to…

In case you’re wondering — yes, this is a Best of Music Inside Out program. But the topic is universal. The songs we hear as children — even the ones we…

In funk music everything counts — every note, every beat, every silence, every breath. That’s why musicians who play funk are such masters of…

The Wonderful World of Ricky RiccardiPerhaps one of the most awe-inspiring facts about Ricky Riccardi, who directs research collections at the Louis…

Before the composer and multi-instrumentalist Aurora Nealand takes a job, she’ll ask, “Did you want The Monocle or did you want The Royal Roses?”Nealand…

Over the years, guests of Music Inside Out have described any number of approaches to making a living in music. Some have had greater commercial success…

Ann Savoy is a lot of things: a musician, scholar, ethnomusicologist, mother, and world traveler. One thing she’s not is boring.Savoy took the scenic…

Rickie Lee Jones says she moved to New Orleans, in part, because she wanted to be around people. In Los Angeles, she was mostly around cars.So far, so…