“I’m one member of the team ... Lewis maintains the present. Before joining Preservation Hall Jazz Band in 2016, he was playing all around New Orleans — on the streets, in the clubs, ...

“A lot of people like to consider it the northernmost city in the Caribbean, or maybe America’s most European city,” Preservation Hall Jazz Band singer Clint Maedgen told NJ Advance Media.

Nowhere is that idea more vividly embodied than in the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, which has held the torch of New Orleans music aloft for more than 60 years, all the while carrying it ...

Two decades ago, Clint Maedgen hadn’t had the remotest thought of becoming part of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band. After all, he was a rock singer/songwriter who was running a cabaret-style ...

Their club, Preservation Hall, played host to vaunted jazz musicians. The Preservation Hall Jazz Band, the club’s touring band, has recorded with major artists included Pete Seeger, Tom Waits ...