If you ask four different locals which is the best jazz club in New Orleans (and I have), you’ll get four different answers. The one thing they’ll all tell you though is that there isn’t a bad one! New Orleans is the home of jazz and you can’t throw a stone here without hitting an incredibly talented musician of some description (although I thought it best not to try).
We started last night by taking our hotel porter’s advice and seeing Irvin Mayfield 
at the Royal Sonesta Hotel. We were only going to stay for half an hour and we were there a bit earlier so got seated right in front of the stage. It’s not often you get to sit 3ft from a grammy award winning artist (not to mention his band) and watch them play live but we were blown away and obviously we ended up staying for the whole two hours.
Then we tried a few more bars along Bourbon Street, which were also pretty good. Most of the famous clubs in New Orleans are in Bourbon Street or Frenchmen street . The students and tourists come to Bourbon Street to drink football sized cocktails while the locals go to the proper clubs on Frenchmen street.
Tonight was our last night here so having been to Bourbon Street yesterday we decided to finish off with a  trip to Frenchmen Street to get the more authentic experience and we had a great night. Some of the clubs here are smaller than our living room and it’s amazing to see such brilliantly talented musicians playing to about 20 people.
In case it wasn’t obvious from the last few posts, we’ve both got a bit of a soft spot for New Orleans. We’re both going to be sad to leave.