4. Santa Claus, Do You Ever Get the Blues?

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Antoine is hired as an assistant music instructor at a middle school. Toni speaks with a witness who says police were beating people during the Abreu incident but will not testify. A documentary film maker asks Albert if she can film the process of the making of the suits but he declines. He eventually allows her to film them on Mardi Gras day. Davis gets his Aunt to invest $5,000 in his new record label. Annie performs onstage with Shawn Colvin and is later introduced to her manager. Sonny auditions for the Soul Apostles but Antoine is not overly impressed. LaDonna, still shaken by the attack, continues working at the bar but not at night. Janette, fed up with how her boss treats her, learns Alan Richman (played by himself) who criticized New Orleans restaurants and cuisine in a GQ article, is in the restaurant and she splashes a Sazerac at him. Davis and Aunt Mimi launch their new record label and begin recording with local musicians. Antoine's band debuts for the first time live and when their guitarist June Yamagishi is unavailable for a Christmas Eve gig, they hire Sonny. Delmond, who has now rehired his manager, tells him his plans for a new record, to incorporate the roots of New Orleans jazz into his modern jazz. Delmond runs into Janette, remembers having seen her in the airport the previous year and invites her to his New Year's Eve gig. Sonny is warned by a band mate about blowing his chance at a steady gig due to his drug use. Antoine asks LaDonna to give their sons the Christmas gifts he bought for them. Delmond takes his father out for Christmas dinner and suggests Albert is depressed. Later, Delmond apologizes to his father for his comment and they smoke a joint and laugh together.