Not Just Another Thursday Night:: Kermit Ruffins and Vaughan's Lounge
Jay Mazza has been a fixture on the music scene in New Orleans since 1979. He has been documenting his live music experiences for three decades. He has published two other books: “Up Front and Center: New Orleans Music at the End of the 20th Century,” which appeared in 2012 and “I Got the Fish in the Head- A Radiators Retrospective,” which was released in 2011. He wrote the “Jazz City” column and covered culture in the Louisiana Weekly from 1992-2005. He has numerous other writing credits including articles in Downbeat, Blues Access, Tower Records Pulse!, the Times-Picayune, OffBeat and he was the editor of Beat Street magazine. He is the chairman of the Big Easy Entertainment Awards and blogs at www.thevinyldistrict.com.