Amid a sea of jazz, funk, and jam late-night concerts in New Orleans during Jazz Fest, lespecial stood apart with an early morning melee of prog-rock pummelling featuring Mike Dillon (Punkadelic ...

But his style did trace an evolution, from churchified soul jazz to astral jazz-funk to smoky songbook reverie. He was always at home in the blues, and knew how to bend a lyric toward his listener for ...

Rest your mind, feel your feels, and float along with some shimmering tunes. Tuff Sunshine is, in the studio at least, musician and songwriter Johnny Leitera. For this return to WFMU (following an ...

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