"New Orleans locals are familiar with sousaphonist Matt Perrine playing any style in any situation. His virtuosity brings forth the inevitable “I’ve never heard a tuba played like that” comment; then you take it for granted until you hear another tuba player. Less noticeable, but apparent to his bandmates, are Perrine’s arranging and composing chops. He writes music as ably as anyone living in New Orleans, and at his best can be lumped in with the most sophisticated of our city’s expat player/arrangers: Wynton, Harry Jr., and Nicholas Payton. The core of the Sunflower City band featured here is a delicious mix: banjoist Alex McMurray, fiddler Matt Rhody, Perrine on sousaphone and Ben Schenck, who has never sounded better, on clarinet. Add percussion by Michael Skinkus or Carlo Nuccio, and you have a unique timbre on chamber jazz pieces like “Rooster,” or the Joplinesque “Nocturne.” Skinkus, in fact, must be accorded star sideman status for h...