by John Gros | Jul 5, 2018 | News
A lot of people talk bad about Bourbon Street, but it’s a great music education. If you’re there for the right reasons, you can’t replace that kind of education. The chops, stamina and strength that you get from Bourbon Street — there’s nothing else like it. All that...
by John Gros | Jul 4, 2018 | News
Happy 4th of July
by John Gros | Jul 3, 2018 | News
New Orleans is a neighborhood town. All of our music comes from neighborhoods. Fats Domino came from the Ninth Ward. The Neville Brothers came from uptown, the Thirteenth Ward. But every neighborhood has its own little take on this music and it has been evolving for...
by John Gros | Jul 2, 2018 | News
There are a couple songs that Allen Toussaint wrote where he’d have a certain, uplifting chord at the end. I remember asking him one time, “Why’d you choose that chord?” He said, “That offers hope. We could all use some...
by John Gros | Jun 29, 2018 | News
Music is a natural thing that happens in time. That’s how we are as humans. There is an ebb and flow to everything that we do.
by John Gros | Jun 28, 2018 | News
The July issue of Relix Magazine features a tribute to BB King’s New York City club that recently closed. It includes a photo taken by Dino Perrucci of John playing with Chuck Berry.
