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Lynn Drury: High Tide (Independent)

With her last album Dancin’ in the Kitchen, Lynn Drury showed how to write an uplifting album about life during shutdown. Appropriately her new one is largely about getting back into the world and features an outgoing sound to match.

Erica Falls & Vintage Soul: Emotions (Independent)

Without a doubt, Erica Falls has the vocal range, modulation and passionate delivery to really belt out a song. Her New Orleans background, that style that leans towards old-school rhythm and blues and soul rather than contemporary, makes her very accessible to wide audiences especially those who enjoy hitting a dance floor.

Zoomst: Aboard the Good Ship (Independent)

Here’s a good argument that you can make any existing form of music more interesting by New Orleans-izing it. Zoomst is very much a prog band, with obvious influences that go back to the best of progressive rock’s ’70s heyday.

Sean Riley & the Water: Stone Cold Hands (Pugnacious Records)

Compared to his 2018 debut EP, Biting Through, guitarist and songwriter Sean Riley does a complete artistic makeover on his first full-length outing produced by no-nonsense Zen master Dean Zucchero, who also thumped bass on these proceedings.

Jamal Batiste: Beatz N’ Vibez, Vol. 1 (Independent)

When you think of Jamal Batiste, what comes to mind is tight, funky, in-the-pocket drumming wrapped up with good energy and spirit. That’s exactly how Beatz N’ Vibez, Vol 1, his fourth album kicks off.

Ben Fox: Wrong Impressions (Independent)

Bassist and leader Ben Fox, a long time New Orleans transplant, changes musical eras from the modern rhythms of last year’s release, the aptly titled Ben’s Bop, and looks back to traditional jazz flavors on Wrong Impressions.

Rory Danger and the Danger Dangers: The Age of Invention (Independent)

For anyone who has seen one of the infrequent performances by Rory Danger and the Danger Dangers, the inherent joy of their live set includes a sense of mystery about the experience, the obvious pleasure the musicians take in playing together and the wide range of musical influences behind the group’s inventive sound.

$crim: Lonely Boy (G59 Record$)

I suspect most New Orleanians don’t realize that one of the music groups most streamed and also high on the Billboard charts are the local underground hip hop duo $uicideboy$. The fame comes with the game, and even as they prepare for international touring and their upcoming album (the 4th), they recently dealt with a Three 6 Mafia copyright infringement lawsuit against them as well as one of their own against merch bootleggers.

Abdullah Ibrahim: 3 (Gearbox Records)

At 89 years old, the legendary South African pianist Abdullah Ibrahim has released a double album of live performances.

Donald Harrison: The Art of Passion (Ropeadope Records)

National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master Donald Harrison, who was recently voted as New Orleans’ top saxophonist in OffBeat Magazine‘s annual Best of the Beat Awards, presents a three-cut […]