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Mikayla Braun: Drift (Independent)

Singer/songwriter Mikayla Braun has been working in the trenches of New Orleans music for over a decade, carving a place for herself and connecting with musicians in the tight-knit circle of players breaking out of the “New Orleans music” mold.

Peter Martin + Generation S: Peter Martin & Generation S (Open Studio Records)

Pianist Peter Martin has taken an innovative approach to his latest project.

Preston Frank & The Frank Family Band: Seventy-Five (Soulwood Records)

As time marches on, Preston Frank’s stock continues to rise as an icon of old-time Creole and Zydeco music. The septuagenarian accordionist and vocalist, a fourth-generation musician, is one of the last living links to traditional Creole music, where Creole and Cajun once broke communion together but have diverged in quantum leaps since then. Preston still performs regularly with his family band consisting of progeny Keith, guitar; Jennifer, bass; and Brad, drums; whom he mentored as kids decades ago when assembling the crew.

Quintron: Ephemeral Ponds (Independent)

“Nature is the best drummer,” Quintron notes at the end of a short video documenting his six-week residency with Miss Pussycat at A Studio in the Woods.

Has Beans: Cookin (Independent)

What do you get when you take alumni from an assortment of Lafayette bands like Red Beans and Rice Revue, Filé, Lucky Playboys, Hadley J. Castille’s Sharecroppers, Basin Brothers, Coteau, The Traiteurs, HardHeads, Native Sons, Tortue, and countless more? You get the Has Beans, a veteran group with a quarter of a millennium’s worth of experience, give or take a month.

Andy Page Quartet: Mobius (Independent)

Saxophonist Andy Page assembled an A-list of “next generation” New Orleans jazz musicians, pianist Oscar Rossignoli, drummer Jason Marsalis and bassist Robin Sherman, to explore his challenging original material for Mobius. Let’s just say his compositions and progressive approach aren’t your usual fare.

Sullivan Fortner: Solo Game (Artwork Records)

Pianist Sullivan is perhaps better known nationally than in his hometown of New Orleans. That’s because the pianist headed out so soon after graduating from the New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts (NOCCA) to attend Ohio’s prestigious Oberlin College and Conservatory and then traveled to New York’s Manhattan School of Music.

Tin Men: Hit it! (Independent)

The Tin Men are all about making daring feats of musicology look easy. Like, how in the world do you go full-throttle P-Funk in a two-thirds acoustic band with no […]

Judith Owen: Winter Wonderland (Holiday Edition) (Twanky Records)

If Judith Owen has released this set of holiday gems to get us ready for the singalong portion of the “Christmas Without Tears” spectacular she and hubby Harry Shearer will be hosting at the Orpheum on December 19, then she has a real cruel streak. Might as well ask us to go one-on-one with Zion Williamson.

Smoky Greenwell: Blues For Democracy (Greenwell Records)

Give props to Greenwell for his socially conscious “Homeless Christmas” (from Smokin’ Christmas) for an ugly subject that’s easy to look the other way.