Da Jump Off Lounge, a 7th Ward music club, sits on North Claiborne Avenue at the foot of a long on-ramp that ascends to Interstate 10 heading west.
It was there on the street, a few minutes into Fat Tuesday last year, that the fates of two New Orleans men collided.
Grammy-winning drummer Kerry “Fatman” Hunter had just left the club and was walking across about 35 feet of North Claiborne to the neutral ground…