Music
The New Mastersounds featuring Lamar Williams Jr., Shake It (Color Red Records)
Even for a Leeds, England-based group dedicated to keeping classic soul-jazz an ongoing proposition, Jazz Fest faves the New Mastersounds really emphasize their pure-soul bona fides. It’s a focus only […]
Various Artists, Land of 1000 Dances: The Rampart Records 58th Anniversary Complete Singles Collection (Minky Records)
Chris Kenner was musical Ice Nine. Few characters channeled the wild, ecstatic vision of Cosimo Matassa’s J&M dream better than this legendary madman of New Orleans R&B and rock ’n’ […]
Kevin Anthony & G-Town, Eh Ha Ha: A Tribute to the Original Cajun Fiddle of Harry Choates (Independent)
Given his defining rendition of “Jole Blon,” a national Top 10 hit in 1946, iconic swing fiddler Harry Choates will always be a patron saint of Cajun music. Decades later, […]
The Tomb of Nick Cage, Cryptids and Creatures (Independent)
The Tomb of Nick Cage bills itself as a horror-rock, new-wave, metal, deathrock band—can’t argue with that. Horror-hardcore bands White Zombie and GWAR seem to be obvious influences for singer […]
Franco Ambrosetti Quintet, Long Waves (Unit)
New Orleans music fans are well aware of guitarist John Scofield, the great jazz and funk conceptualist best known around these parts for the incendiary Piety Street sessions. But Scofield’s […]
Alex McMurray, Lucky One (Independent)
A new Alex McMurray album is a call for celebration. Not a huge, Mardi Gras-like celebration, because songwriters’ albums no longer define the zeitgeist as they once did. But definitely […]
The Revelers, At the End of the River – Au bout de la riviére (Independent)
Save yourself some confusion. Don’t think of the Revelers as staunch proponents of any particular genre but rather a synthesis of South Louisiana styles that is uniquely its own. On […]
Dopolarians, Garden Party (Mahakala)
Kidd Jordan is still a force of nature at age 84 even as he is limited physically by health problems. His tenor saxophone playing remains a standard against which excellence […]
Jeff Chaz, No Paint (JCP Records)
The seventh track on this album is called “Blues Buffet,” which sounds like either the kind of cruise you might hear Jeff Chaz on or the multitude of blues styles […]
Jackson Stokes, Jackson Stokes (Create Records)
Everything about this album is retro: The sound, the packaging (which purposely evokes a mid-’60s Columbia-label design), the length (nine songs, 39 minutes)—and from the sound of things, the soul […]
