I'm still a sucker for Maple Leaf and Tipitina's (Jacques Imo's for dinner if Maple Leaf and Miss May's or Fat Harry's [depending on your comfortability in a dive bar] if Tip's).

I think dive bars are the best. Since I don't know NO that we'll, finding them is the problem. Most likely we'll just wander around and listen for music. Miss May's and Fat Harry's, those are dive bars?

Miss Mays is a dive bar, Fats is a regular bar.

Fat Harry's if it is nice out to hang out with the doors/windows open! Be careful north and south of saint charles late at night.

If you want to sit outside go to Columns instead of Fats.

You you mind elaborating on your warning? We plan on having dinner at the Commanders Palace one night, and I see from the map it is south of Saint Charles.

We are staying on Chartres St in the French 1/4, and was hoping to be mostly on foot looking for bars and music. Good or bad idea?

I used to go to Maple Leaf when I was 16 back in the early 80's, I saw some great gigs there. If he's staying in the quarter then he could take a nice street car ride to the Maple Leaf, It's easy to know when to get off, it's when St. Charles and Carrollton meet.

Good times.

I was there 6 or so years ago and then spent a Friday there last year. Bourbon Street is mostly rock cover bands or DJs. I was told to go to French Street (not far away) where they have a couple of small jazz clubs.

Definitely check out Preservation Hall, right off of Bourbon. There's a line, but you'll probably get through it in an hour. You'll only be inside for 20 minutes or so, but its some good old fashoined New Orleans Jazz in a really old building. Its touristy, but its good.

Also, the steam boat had a decent dixie band on it. Again, touristy.

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You'll be fine at Commander's. Order a brandy milk punch with dessert and i srrongly suggest for said dessert getting both the bread pudding souffle and bananas foster. Also they will tempt you with the gumbo trio (and rightly so) but the turtle soup is amazing. Also don't dress like a peasant.

Yup that was what I was thinking he should do and go to Jacques

Good call on preservation hall

Frenchman's Street, not French Street. The Spotted Cat is a good place, my nephew and his band, "Pat Casey and the New Sound" are there on Sunday nights. The Carousel Lounge in the Hotel Monteleone on Fridays for Happy Hour. My nephew's wife, Robin Barnes, the "Songbird of New Orleans" sings there then. You may have seen her on a "NCIS New Orleans" episode.