“Sometimes I think New Orleans might as well be Paris,” says Brian Blade, 46, a Shreveport native who moved back to his hometown some three and a half years ago. The master drummer, who has been a member of the legendary saxophonist Wayne Shorter’s quartet since its inception in 2000 and has been leading his own ensemble, Brian Blade & the Fellowship Band, for 20 years, admits that he doesn’t get down to New Orleans ve...