On a steamy Sunday afternoon at the 2026 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, Jason Elliott stood in the Gospel Tent sporting a custom T-shirt illustrating one of the day’s dilemmas: “I wish David Byrne and Ron Carter weren’t playing at the same time.”
His shirt might also have read, “I wish David Byrne and Jon Batiste Presents Swamp weren’t playing at the same time.”
Both promised to be different and special. From what I saw, both were…