Rob Wagner

Valid records is an independent label dedicated to presenting the creative possibilities of the New Orleans music scene. Music that responds to the moment yet points a better way into the future will always be valid; to face the challenges confronting post-Katrina New Orleans, it is now essential.

The Valid recordings are satisfyingly uncommon, documenting a New Orleans jazz noticeably removed from the "official" versions . . . [They] challenge any homogeneous notion of the city's sound, and open up the rigid, archival sensibility to which "N'Awlins jazz" is too often confined. — CODA Magazine