Dumpstaphunk features Ivan Neville of the legendary Neville family, and, yes, it’s all-the-way funky. The roaming band of musicologists also features a crack squad of players who’ve logged time with Trey Anastasio, Jewel, and the Dave Matthews Band, where they learned to jam out a song. Here, they take the free-flow approach and stir tunes into a hot musical gumbo that could only come from New Orleans.

This article appears in Jan 31 – Feb 6, 2007.