Lily Keber’s documentary about New Orleans piano virtuoso James Booker, Bayou Maharajah, will be available for streaming on Netflix starting this Thursday, September 1. The popular web-based streaming ...

One of many fascinating moments in this 2013 profile of New Orleans piano man James Booker—the self-proclaimed “Black Liberace”—occurs early on, when an admiring Harry Connick Jr., perched in front of ...

James Booker is known as the Bayou Maharajah, the Piano Prince and the Black Liberace, whom Dr. John famously called the “best Black, gay, one-eyed junkie piano genius New Orleans has ever produced.” ...

This Sunday, the spirit of the “Piano Prince of New Orleans” will take over Preservation Hall with a visual and musical telling of his story at a James Booker tribute event. The day will start with a ...