Chris Vincent follows up last year’s Good Crook with The Chicken Mart EP, a collaborative effort wherein the New Orleans songwriter/guitarist/singer got some of his Louisiana friends in the studio to bash out two new originals at Grammy Award-winning Jake Eckert’s Rhythm Shack studio. Originally from Bayonne, Vincent plays a mean slide and demonstrated such at the recent New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. (See him below showing off his funky fretwork live on WWL-TV.)

The Jersey Shore Jazz & Blues Foundation will present acclaimed Louisiana singer-songwriter-slide guitarist Chris Vincent back to New Jersey (he grew up in Bayonne) on Dec. 5 at The Chubby Pickle on Bay Avenue in Highlands. The following afternoon he will host a blues-guitar master-class at 2:00 at the Women’s Club of Red Bank on Broad Street.