New jazz fellowship honors the genre’s elders and gives them each an unrestricted $100,000 grant
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and The Jazz Foundation of America on Tuesday announced the Jazz Legacies Fellowship -- a new ...
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Mellon Fellowship Strengthens New Orleans Jazz Lineage with Powell and Riley
The Mellon Fellowship announced its commitment to New Orleans jazz lineage grants to local musicians over the age of 62.
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Louis Armstrong show at New Orleans Jazz Museum is 'the beginning of all that jazz became'
A young troublemaker at the Colored Waif’s Home encounters one horn and two music educators. The world changes.
Who is Trombone Shorty? Musician performing with Lauren Daigle at Super Bowl
Trombone Shorty has taken center stage in New Orleans since was 4 years old and he'll perform at the Super Bowl in his hometown.
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Kansas City and New Orleans: A jazz connection that runs deep
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.
Here's who is singing the Black National Anthem at the Super Bowl this Sunday
Ledisi, a Grammy-winning jazz and soul artist who was born in New Orleans and spent much of her childhood growing up there, ...
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Louis Armstrong show at New Orleans Jazz Museum is 'the beginning of all that jazz became'
As local high school marching bands fill the streets with rolling thunder over the next couple of weeks, consider the battered cornet on view at the New Orleans Jazz Museum exhibition “It All ...
New Orleans steamboat tour: Exploring the city from a floating museum
Kansas City Chiefs fans hopped aboard a historic steamboat tour to take in New Orleans' beauty from the river.
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Sullivan Fortner Embraces Music’s Past And Its Future
Pianist Sullivan Fortner is originally from New Orleans, but is one of the most respected and creative players in New York at ...