Music
Charlie Halloran and the Tropicales, Shake the Rum (Independent)
Trombonist Charlie Halloran may be the hardest working horn player in the city of New Orleans. He plays with nearly everyone on the local scene including the Panorama Jazz Band, […]
Will Dickerson & the Octavians, Welcome to Rocktavia (Independent)
Will Dickerson grew up backstage in the New Orleans music scene, the youngest in a family of musicians. On his debut album, Welcome to Rocktavia, he owns his roots rock […]
Gary Negbaur, You’ve Got to Be Carefully Taught (Blujazz)
If Gary Negbaur says he keeps one foot in New Orleans and the other in his native New York City, believe him. On the jazz pianist’s right ankle is a […]
Maria Muldaur and Tuba Skinny, Let’s Get Happy Together (Stony Plain)
Digging into the tradition, playing vintage material for young hipsters, making musicology fun—Maria Muldaur started doing that in the Boston coffeehouses five decades ago, and Tuba Skinny is doing it […]
Derrick Shezbie, The Ghost of Buddy Bolden (Clubhouse Records)
Derrick “Kabuki” Shezbie remains best known as a former member of the Rebirth Brass Band, blowing the trumpet and enlivening the crowds with the Grammy-winning group. The Ghost of Buddy […]
Noah Young, Absolutions (EP) (Bubble Bath Records)
Bassist Noah Young has assembled a diverse cast of some of the best young jazz players on the scene for his latest EP Absolutions. They include trumpeter Steve Lands, tenor […]
Jeff Coffin & Helen Gillet, Let it Shine (Ear Up Records)
Jeff Coffin and Helen Gillet’s new cello/reeds duet record is both head-bopping in its meditative moments and thoughtful even when it hits a groove. Coffin, best known for his work […]
Max and the Martians, All the Same (Perpetual Doom)
This is the second release that Tuba Skinny member Max Bien-Kahn has done in the past six months under the Max and the Martians banner, and they couldn’t be more […]
Bad Operation, Bad Operation (Community Records/Bad Time Records)
Jimmy Cliff once explained that ska, which originated in Jamaica in the 1960s, was upbeat because it was born during the period of Jamaican independence from British rule, so people […]
Bas Clas, Meteorite! (Serfdom Records)
Look! Up in the sky! It’s a Meteorite! blazing across the cosmos to announce that Bas Clas is back with a vengeance. On their fourth release since 2011, when Lafyette’s […]
