Late night party

Name: Mahmoud Chouki
Start: 2026-07-31T21:00:00+00:00
End: 2026-08-01T00:00:00+00:00
Location: Good Measure

July 2026
Charilie & the Tropicales

July 17 @ 9:00 pm - July 18 @ 12:00 am

Good Measure 600 Carondelet St, New Orleans, LA, United States

Join us for a free show featuring Charlie & The Tropicales!

Charlie & the Tropicales bring the sound and spirit of a 1950s Caribbean hotel band to life with torrid horns, tropical rhythms, and infectious grooves. Drawing on New Orleans' deep connections as the northernmost port of the Caribbean, the group explores musical traditions from Trinidad, Venezuela, Martinique, Guadeloupe, and beyond.

As jazz pioneer Jelly Roll Morton famously said, New Orleans music carries a “Spanish tinge,” an essential seasoning in the city’s musical DNA. The Tropicales embrace this spirit, blending traditional New Orleans jazz with 1950s R&B, beguine from the French Antilles, and Trinidadian calypso, the Tropicales create a sound that feels both timeless and transportive — equally suited for listening and for the dance floor.

Led by trombonist Charlie Halloran — a fixture of the city's traditional jazz scene — the band reflects a broader exploration of Caribbean and New Orleans musical exchange. Halloran has been twice named a "Rising Star" in DownBeat Magazine and is a multi-time honoree in OffBeat Magazine's "Best of the Beat" awards, with credits including Jon Cleary, Allen Toussaint, Rickie Lee Jones, and U2.
Very Cherry

July 24 @ 9:00 pm - July 25 @ 12:00 am

Good Measure 600 Carondelet St, New Orleans, LA, United States

Very Cherry is a New Orleans duo described as a "genre-melting rave jazz symphony," saxophonist, guitarist, and multi-instrumentalist David Polk alongside drummer Simon Lott, two musicians who have been collaborating for over twenty years. Their sets layer live saxophone, classical piano, and electric guitar over fully original EDM compositions, drawing from jazz, classical, hip-hop, Latin music, and whatever else serves the moment. The result is a live experience built on the tension between composition and improvisation, and one that consistently ends with people dancing.

Entry is free, join us in Good Measure.
Smoker’s World

July 25 @ 9:00 pm - July 26 @ 12:00 am

Good Measure 600 Carondelet St, New Orleans, LA, United States

Smoker's World is the most personal and experimental project of Derrick "Smoker" Freeman, the New Orleans drummer, songwriter, and DJ who also leads the Soul Brass Band. Where that group operates within the brass band tradition, Smoker's World is Freeman's creative laboratory: hip-hop grooves, funk, pop, and the deep New Orleans jazz foundation, filtered through social commentary, cheeky lyricism, and the energy of a full horn line that can shift gears without warning. Freeman describes it as the anchor of all his musical pursuits, built around a rotating cast of the city's most versatile jazz musicians. Their 2022 album WhiteSplain, which transforms pandemic-era political chaos into danceable tracks, earned wide attention for its balance of consciousness and fun.

Entry is free, join us in Good Measure.
Mahmoud Chouki

July 31 @ 9:00 pm - August 1 @ 12:00 am

Good Measure 600 Carondelet St, New Orleans, LA, United States

Mahmoud Chouki is a Moroccan-born master guitarist, multi-instrumentalist, and composer who has made New Orleans his home and his sounding board. His compositions draw on an unusually wide range of traditions, Andalusian and North African music, Levantine strings, Latin American rhythms, European classical training, and New Orleans jazz, woven together into something that feels like a genuine musical dialogue rather than a fusion exercise.

Chouki serves as music curator for the New Orleans Museum of Art, where his site-specific performance series Safar explored how music can speak across cultural divides. He composed the score for Ma Belle, Ma Beauty, which won at the Sundance Film Festival, and was named Best Emerging Artist by OffBeat Magazine. As artistic director of Rencontre Orient-Occident in Switzerland, he has built a career around bringing international musicians into conversation, with New Orleans, and with each other.

Entry is free, join us at Good Measure.

Late night party

July 2026

Charilie & the Tropicales

Very Cherry

Smoker’s World

Mahmoud Chouki

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