Founded in 1978, and still going in 2018, Astral Project has been "New Orleans' best-kept secret" - a world-class modern-jazz group comprised of the city's finest players. Beneath its funky Big Easy style the group has a spiritual agenda: to put the audience on the astral plane.In "A Higher Fusion," drawing on interviews with group members and some 40 other New Orleans musicians along with an inconceivable quantity of other research, David Lasocki...