Music Picks: Woody Allen & His New Orleans Jazz Band, Jane Monheit, Manhattan Murder Mystery

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THE GROWLERS, TOMORROWS TULIPS, THE ABIGAILS at the Echo; MAHLIS-PANOS PROJECT at the Baked Potato; HEROES AND HEROINES, ANCIENT ANIMALS, DIRTY ORCA, NAKED KIDS at Silverlake Lounge.

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Naama Kates: See Tuesday.

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House of Blues Sunset Strip

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thu 12/29

Woody Allen & His New Orleans Jazz Band

ROYCE HALL

"The clarinet really puts the flap in 'flapper,' " a friend said recently, marveling over the infectiously giddy way the instrument gets people moving and inexorably lifts their spirits. Tonight's bandleader has been playing clarinet for decades (he's even named after the great Woody Herman), and he and his crew have been holding down a faithfully regular gig at New York's Carlyle Hotel. Allen champions the kind of jazz that came out of New Orleans when it was still new — fast and ebullient, with the notes spilling out in a merry jumble. As much as the music bobs and weaves with a festive fervor, there's always an undercurrent of Crescent City melancholy swimming around at the bottom. Or perhaps it's the other way around: The music is rooted in a bluesy sadness before it's picked up by the scruff of the neck and carried out into the streets for a parade. These guys bring back that bittersweet jitterbug joyfulness better than most, so don't miss 'em, as Allen apparently has a day job in the film industry and rarely makes it out to this coast. —Falling James

Luciana Souza

BLUE WHALE

This São Paulo native has had a unique and multifaceted career, a reflection of the supple and deeply expressive voice she's blessed with. The four-time Grammy nominee made waves with her volumes of duets with some incredible Latin guitarists on Duos and Duos II, where Souza duels the six-stringed virtuosity with gracious and fearless vocal riposte. Her lovely contribution to Herbie Hancock's Grammy Award–winning Album of the Year, River: The Joni Letters, was just another milestone on her way to stardom. Souza has sold out concert halls around the world, which makes her appearance at this Little Tokyo nightclub all the more stunning. With local legend Larry Koonse on guitar, and bassist David Pilch, who has played on numerous records that you probably own. —Gary Fukushima

Fishbone

KEY CLUB

Fishbone hit the Key Club tonight riding a wave of renewed media attention: First the longtime L.A. ska-punk weirdos crept back onto the pop-cult radar with Everyday Sunshine, an affectionate documentary currently making the art-house rounds. Then the Roots made infamous use of Fishbone's song "Lyin' Ass Bitch" to introduce Michele Bachmann on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon. You can expect to hear that gem (along with various other oldies) tonight, but Fishbone aren't just in the nostalgia business these days. In October the band released a surprisingly lively new EP called Crazy Glue, on which they demonstrate an undimmed enthusiasm for naughty language — get a load of "Deep Shit Backstroke" and "Gittin' in That Ass." With local reggae vets the Aggrolites. —Mikael Wood

Snuffaluffagus, Korey Dane

BOOTLEG BAR

Snuffaluffagus began as a home studio project by San Diego songwriter Chris Braciszewski, a young folk aficionado who set out to confer childlike wonder through music. The project has grown to mammoth proportions since, encompassing a rotating collective of musicians scattered across the States, and a kaleidoscopic range of sound. On Snuffy's stunner of a new EP, Magical Realism, horns, guitar, koto, violin, piano, drums and bass are bent into bright musical figures resembling a sort of acoustic-orchestral free jazz that never loses sight of its creator's original goal. Which is to say, for all of the experimentation, these songs stay warm, accessible and beautiful, while Braciszewski sings his beatific observations and riddles in an elastic voice that brings to mind Parenthetical Girls' Zac Pennington. Expect to uncover a few ancient universal secrets. —Chris Martins

FMLY FEST

Cat Nap (day one); Chuco's (day two)

The third annual FMLY Fest is a chance to experience new sounds and ideas that go beyond the confines of the stage and the music that follows you out the gate and down into the street. FMLY — a self-avowed "global community of makers, prosumers, visual/auditory/spatial artists, activists/hacktivists, theorists, writers, cyclists and environmentally conscious foodies" — presents the next stage of the DIY ethos: DIT (do it together). Some of the many bands playing the festival: Truman Peyote, Messy Sparkles, Dream Panther, W-H-I-T-E, Kid Infinity, Halloween Swim Team, So Many Wizards (L.A.). And Power of Green L.A.'s donated solar panels & cells make FMLY Fest the world's first solar-powered DIY festival. Also: Donate your old Christmas tree to Forest of Commodity Casualties! Also Fri. and Sat. —David Cotner

Also playing:

AUDREY RYAN, CAPGUN HOLD-UPS, G. DAPONTE at Silverlake Lounge; JOE LABARBERA QUINTET at Vitello's; NAAMA KATES at Cat & Fiddle.