Drummer Stanton Moore‘s solo records incorporate a lot of the jazzy funk he plays with the New Orleans jam-band Galactic. On his latest album, III, Moore lays down a bubbling groove that is a bit more rooted in his hometown’s second-line jazz scene. It’s not as freewheeling as his band’s music, but it’s just as adventurous — especially when he goes Bonzo on a cover of Led Zeppelin’s “When the Levee Breaks.”
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This article appears in Sep 27 – Oct 3, 2006.