Music
Dirk Powell, When I Wait For You (Compass Records)
There wouldn’t be enough room in this publication to cite all of Dirk Powell’s accomplishments. An abbreviated list includes being a Balfa Toujours founding member and a pillar of the […]
Roderick Harper, E•volv•ing (RHM Entertainment)
Vocalist Roderick Harper, a Washington, D.C. native who has been a frequent resident of New Orleans and again calls the Crescent City his home, is perhaps best recognized locally for […]
Maceo Parker, Soul Food – Cooking with Maceo (Funk Garage)
Alto saxophonist Maceo Parker is no stranger to New Orleans music. He has graced countless stages during festivals and steamy late nights at Tipitina’s, bringing his swinging post-bop funk playing […]
Gabrielle Cavassa, Gabrielle Cavassa (711330 Records DK2)
California native, and since 2017 a resident of New Orleans, vocalist Gabrielle Cavassa takes a poetic approach to her lyrically-driven compositions that fill most of this self-titled album. From the […]
The Nation Beat, The Royal Chase (Independent)
It’s not often that you’ll find a jazz, funk or brass-band album where the longest of 11 tracks is under five minutes. That’s the case on the Nation Beat’s sixth […]
Sugar Ray and the Bluetones featuring Little Charlie, Too Far from the Bar (Severn)
Members of the second-generation blues revival, these guys started making names for themselves back in the mid-1980s. Hard workers and prolific to say the least, this new release is very […]
Shawn Williams, The Fear of Living, The Fear of Loving (Independent)
Plenty of people have made Covid-era albums so far, but most of them avoid the elephant in the proverbial room and try to sound as normal as possible. Not the […]
Adonis Rose, Piece of Mind – Live at Blue Llama (Storyville Records)
In the spring of 2019, drummer Adonis Rose gathered some of his very talented peers and musical cohorts to record Piece of Mind – Live at Blue Llama, his first […]
The Lena Prima Big Band, Live in Concert (Basin Street Records)
Lena Prima’s last studio album, Prima La Famiglia, was the one she was born to make. It wasn’t the first time she’d done her father Louis Prima’s music, but this […]
PJ Morton, Gospel According to PJ Morton (Morton Inspiration/Tyscot Records)
Through a series of remote recording sessions, keyboardist, vocalist and composer PJ Morton, the son of Bishop Paul S. Morton (senior pastor of Changing a Generation Full Gospel Baptist Church […]
