James Rivers Movement plays French Quarter Festival on Sunday, April 16, 2023 at the Jazz Playhouse in the Royal Sonesta Hotel from 5 p.m. until 7 p.m.

Opportunities come and go (while some never appear) but preparing to speak with James Rivers appeared to be a timely, even unique, project from the beginning. Proposed by OffBeat, I cannot say I ever heard him play but had seen his name on th...