An American art form now more than a century old, jazz emerged from the streets of New Orleans. The city has produced some of the world's great jazz musicians, none more celebrated than Louis ...
A young troublemaker at the Colored Waif’s Home encounters one horn and two music educators. The world changes.
(JTA) — Sandra Jaffe, a Jewish woman who, along with her husband, ran one of the most vaunted jazz clubs in New Orleans for decades and integrated the club before segregation ended, died last ...
The Mellon Fellowship announced its commitment to New Orleans jazz lineage grants to local musicians over the age of 62.
Trombone Shorty has taken center stage in New Orleans since was 4 years old and he'll perform at the Super Bowl in his ...
The American musical art form jazz emerges in New Orleans around the advent of the 20th century. Jazz blends elements from varied traditions, including African and African American, religious ...
YOU KNOW, AND NEW ORLEANS HAS HAD A TON OF CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE MUSIC WORLD. I MEAN, YOU CAN’T GO ANYWHERE IN THIS CITY AND NOT HEAR SOME JAZZ. SO WE WENT OUT TO UNDERSTAND THE HISTORY BEHIND IT.
Ledisi, a Grammy-winning jazz and soul artist who was born in New Orleans and spent much of her childhood growing up there, ...
Bo Diddley invited Trombone Shorty on stage in 1990, when Trombone Shorty was 4, at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. Trombone Shorty joined his brother's band when he was 6 years old.