Various Artists, Sweet Emma and Her Preservation Hall Jazz Band (Preservation Hall)

Cyril Neville, Soulo (Endangered)

One of the wonders that is the Neville Brothers is the way four personalities, like points on a compass, can face in different directions yet together complete a circle. Cyril, […]

The Bluerunners, To the Country (Rounder)

Davell Crawford, The B-3 and Me (Bullseye Blues & Jazz)

I’ve met folks who listen to nothing but organ trios, who can tell a Jimmy Smith like in a nanosecond from one by Jack McDuff or Groove Holmes. I’m not […]

Richard Lebouef and Two Step, Again, for the First Time (La Louisiane)

When the singer-accordionist is a LeBouef and his band consists of a Picard, an Hebert, a Fontenot, and a Sonnier, you know you’re talking real Cajun music. And because the […]

Sista Monica, Sista Monica (Mo Muscle)

Lenny McDaniel, Tired Angels (Café au Lait Music)

New Orleans’ singer/songwriter/guitarist Lenny McDaniel seems to have found a happy medium. On his third effort Tired Angels, McDaniel strikes a balance between the lighthearted and memorable rock and soul […]

Michael Pellera, Cloud 9 (Pajacis Music)

Pellera has a remarkable ability to compose evocative, dreamy landscapes, combining the emotionally charged impressionism of post-bop jazz with a romantic, almost classical sense of melody. On Cloud 9, his […]

Buster Poindexter, Buster’s Spanish Rocket Ship (Island)

The Ramones, We’re Outta Here (Radioactive)