Remembering Leah Chase
Creole chef Leah Chase of New Orleans, dies at 96.
To read more about her life, click here and here.
You can listen to our feature on Leah Chase here.
It’s New Orleans jazz clarinet in street parades and clubs. We’ll hear clarinet in the hands of past and present legends: George Lewis, Sidney Bechet, Dr. Michael White and Aurora Nealand, plus a conversation with a sometime New Orleans clarinet virtuoso, Evan Christopher. Then, a live cultural exchange between French Louisiana and West Africa with singer, percussionist and dancer Sidiki Conde from Guinea and zydeco accordionist, cultural historian and sometime alligator wrangler, Bruce “Sunpie” Barnes.
Creole chef Leah Chase of New Orleans, dies at 96.
To read more about her life, click here and here.
You can listen to our feature on Leah Chase here.