In just six weeks this past spring, the New Orleans music community demonstrated its post-Katrina vitality and proved its incalculable value as a tourist draw beyond even the glimmer of a doubt. From an increasingly well-attended and musically varied French Quarter Fest in early April through one of the most satisfying and pleasurable Jazz Fests in recent memory to a rapidly maturing and uniquely structured Bayou Boogaloo in late May, New Orleans and South Louisiana musicians proved themselve...