Garage a Trois, Emphasizer (Tone-Cool)

Mama Digdown’s Brass Band, Delicious (Independent)

Fest Focus: Garage A Trois

Some of you may remember that during Jazz Fest 2000, Superfly Presents put together a little show at the Orpheum Theater called Oysterhead.

Charlie Hunter Quintet, Right Now Move (Ropeadope Records)

Fest Focus: Herbie Mann Reunion Band

Herbie Mann has been called many things in his 50 plus years as a musician—virtuoso, sex symbol, musical ambassador, and on more than one occasion, sell-out.

New Orleans Stick Band, Fear of New Shoes (Four Cats/Radionic)

Johnny Sketch & The Dirty Notes, Bandicoot (Independent)

Turnip Greens, Crosseyed Cat (Cope Records)

SXSW: Hipper Than What We’ve Got?

Various Artists, Straight from the 6th Ward (Tipitina’s Records)