Jon McBride likes having fun with New Orleans roots music. Whether it's hard-driving soul jazz fueled by the blues, funk, and second-line street beats or bringing a seasoned and fiery edge to a repertoire of American roots music, including traditional jazz, ragtime, acoustic blues, and gospel, he brings a high-energy spontaneity and relentless search for the perfect groove that keeps audiences large and small on the edge of their seat or the middle of the dance floor.