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James Jordan is a New Orleans vocalist whose sound moves across R&B, funk, blues, and swing, a range that reflects the breadth of the city's musical tradition. A rising presence in the local music scene, he is a recipient of the Sarah I. Nadler Memorial Award in Music. His band, James Jordan and the Situation, released their first album of original material, Reflections, earlier this year, and in May 2026, made their debut performance in the WWOZ Jazz Tent at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival.

Tonight, Jordan leads a special sextet configuration featuring Robbie Wallace, a performance that reflects Good Measure's commitment to presenting established artists in configurations you won't find anywhere else in the city.

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Oakland-born Ten Spencer is a vocalist and bandleader whose music pulls from soul, R&B, funk, and jazz. She built her career in the Bay Area before relocating to New Orleans, a city whose musical spirit she has made her own. She fronts Gov't Majik and has performed with Adonis Rose and the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra. Her delivery is warm and assured, and her writing draws from the same well: love, loss, and the feeling of a place that gets under your skin. In 2025, she performed at the Ascona Jazz Festival in Switzerland, one of Europe's longest-running festivals dedicated to New Orleans music.

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Entry is free, with standing room and some seating at first come, first serve basis.

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Los Guiros is a New Orleans psychedelic cumbia band led by frontwoman and bandleader Corina Hernandez, a child of the world whose multicultural upbringing exposed her to the folkloric rhythms of Central and South America from an early age. Their sound blends traditional Colombian dance rhythms and the guitar and organ textures of Peruvian chicha with modern electronic elements, anchored by the sousaphone of Todd Burdick of Tuba Skinny, which gives the band a distinctly New Orleans feel. Formed in the wake of the pandemic, Los Guiros have moved quickly from a Saturn Bar residency to the stages of the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival and Bonnaroo, where they were the only Latin act on the 2024 bill.

Full bar on-site.

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Entry is free, with standing room and some seating at first come, first serve basis.

Doors open at 9 pm. Join us in Good Measure. Come for the music. Stay for the night.

Thomas Glass is a New Orleans drummer, vocalist, and bandleader whose performance credits include Jon Cleary, Jelly Joseph, and Kenny Lattimore. With the Smack City All-Stars, Glass steps from behind the kit to front a high-energy R&B, funk, and soul ensemble built around a journey through the eras of classic R&B, heavy funk, and vintage soul. Live performances feature the Smack Mamas, a powerhouse backing vocal group, and frequent collaborators including Nigel Hall and Khris Royal.

Full bar on-site.

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Entry is free, with standing room and some seating at first come, first serve basis.

Doors open at 9 pm. Join us in Good Measure. Come for the music. Stay for the night.

Zehrin Sims is a Sacramento-born drummer and songwriter who relocated to New Orleans to study Jazz Studies and Performance, and has been an active force in the city's music scene since 2022. A versatile percussionist whose credits include Stephen Walker's Big Easy Brass Walkers, Kid Merv & All That Jazz, and Trumpet Mafia, Sims is the cousin of saxophonist and bandleader Zahria Sims. His debut album “Songs for a Better Tomorrow” is set for a late summer release.

Full bar on-site.

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Entry is free, with standing room and some seating at first come, first serve basis.

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Victor Campbell is a pianist from Camaguey, Cuba, whose playing moves fluently between Cuban jazz, timba, classical technique, and the New Orleans musical vocabulary he has spent years absorbing since moving to the city in 2019. He trained at Cuba's National School of the Arts and first came to New Orleans in 2012 through the Louis Armstrong Summer Jazz Camp, a visit that, in his own words, changed his life.

The New Orleans Jazz Museum describes him as moving effortlessly between a blues solo, a Cuban timba montuno, and a classical selection within the same set. Chucho Valdes, the legendary Cuban pianist, predicted in 2019 that Campbell would revolutionize Cuban jazz piano. He has since performed with Delfeayo Marsalis and the Uptown Jazz Orchestra, contributed to the soundtrack of the film Sinners, which went on to Oscar recognition, and become one of the most talked-about young musicians in the city.

Full bar on-site.

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Entry is free, with standing room and some seating at first come, first serve basis.

Doors open at 9 pm. Join us in Good Measure. Come for the music. Stay for the night.

Bruce "Sunpie" Barnes is one of New Orleans' most celebrated multi-instrumentalists and culture bearers, a master accordionist, harmonica player, and bandleader who has spent three decades developing what he calls "Afro-Louisiana" music, blending blues, zydeco, gospel, and Caribbean and African rhythms into a sound rooted in Louisiana but open to the world. Born in Benton, Arkansas, and raised on the blues harmonica tradition of his father, Barnes came to New Orleans by way of a career as an NFL player with the Kansas City Chiefs, and later as a 30-year National Park Service ranger at the Jean Lafitte National Park and the New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park.

He is the Big Chief of the Northside Skull and Bones Gang, one of the oldest Black Carnival groups in the city, a second-line parading member of Black Men of Labor, and co-author of Talk That Music Talk, a celebrated book on New Orleans brass band tradition featuring over 300 of his own photographs. He has toured with Sting and Paul Simon, performed in over 50 countries, and released six albums with the Louisiana Sunspots. 

Full bar on-site.

No check-in required.

Entry is free, with standing room and some seating at first come, first serve basis.

Doors open at 9 pm. Join us in Good Measure. Come for the music. Stay for the night.