New Orleans

The idea for All For One Records was slowly formulated by Harold Battiste in New Orleans during the late 1950s. His plan was to form a record company...

Joe Banashak worked in New Orleans. He ran A-1 Record Distributors. In 1959 he decided to set up a record company in the city, in partnership with Larry...

The roots of the unique body of music that was produced in New Orleans in the twentieth century can be traced back to the ensemble playing of the...

Dave Bartholomew was born on December 24th, 1918, in Edgard, Louisiana. He was the son of Louis Bartholomew, a well-known Dixieland tuba player. Unsurprisingly, Dave followed his father...

In 1973 Allen Toussaint and Marshall Sehorn established the Sea-Saint recording studio in the Gentilly area of eastern New Orleans. Toussaint had originally joined forces with Sehorn after the completion of his...

The majority of New Orleans landmark recordings came out of first J&M Studios and then the Cosimo Recording Studio, both owned by Cosimo Matassa, a key individual in...

The first stop on a Soul and R&B musical tour of the United States must begin with New Orleans. Why? Because New Orleans was, I believe, the first...

First published 12 August 2020 Strangely, one of the best Soul albums ever was released in the UK in 1968. It was manufactured by Polydor Records and pressed...