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KEY WEST HONORS LOST LOVED ONES NEW ORLEANS-STYLE
Familiar faces filled Duval Street on Feb. 16, when the 10th annual Crooks Second LIne marched down the town’s main drag, carrying giant photos of lost loved ones in Key West’s version of a New ...
‘Southern Nights’ by Sullivan Fortner Review: New York Jazz With a Louisiana Lilt
The pianist joins forces with bassist Peter Washington and drummer Marcus Gilmore on an album inspired by a residency at the ...
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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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American Routes Shortcuts: Evan Christopher
Evan Christopher began playing clarinet in junior high school in Long Beach, CA. His first introduction to New Orleans music ...
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At the Iroquois Theater in N.O., vaudeville, then jazz thrived
WWOZ’s A Closer Walk quotes historians Lynn Abbott and Jack Stewart as saying the Iroquois was a “foundry of early blues and ...
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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 ...