Aaron Neville, Aaron Neville’s Soulful Christmas (A&M)

Various Artists, A Traditional Jazz Christmas (Priceless Jazz)   Allen Toussaint & Friends, A New Orleans Christmas (NYNO)     You know it’s going to happen. Sometime long about Christmas […]

Delbert McClinton, One of the Fortunate Few (Rising Tide)

Kalamu ya Salaam, My Story, My Song (AFO)

Jelly Roll Morton, Last Sessions (Commodore)

Jelly’s mostly remembered in jazz histories as the first composer and arranger to organize the resources of jazz into complex, exciting, and subtle works. But on these Last Sessions, made […]

Johnny Jenkins, Ton Ton Macoute! (Capricorn)

One of those “legendary” rock albums relegated to obscurity by the rush of musical (and commercial) activity in the late 1960s, Ton Ton Macoute! derives its notoriety mainly from the […]

Marlon Jordan, Marlon’s Mode (Arabesque)

Kate & Anna McGarrigle, Love Over and Over (Hannibal)

Bo Dollis & the Wild Magnolias, 1313 Hoodoo Street (AIM)

New Birth Brass Band, D-Boy (NYNO)

Rockie Charles, Born for You (Orleans)