A young troublemaker at the Colored Waif’s Home encounters one horn and two music educators. The world changes.

WWOZ’s A Closer Walk quotes historians Lynn Abbott and Jack Stewart as saying the Iroquois was a “foundry of early blues and ...

The Mellon Fellowship announced its commitment to New Orleans jazz lineage grants to local musicians over the age of 62.

From boxing to baseball to basketball, New Orleans sports history has a lot more going for it than just football, columnist ...

For Mardi Gras-style, traditional jazz music, look no further than Preservation Hall Jazz Band as they make their way to KiMo ...

Kansas City and New Orleans are both known for jazz, but each city has its own sound. Jazz artist Jon Batiste will sing the ...

In Brassroots Democracy, author Benjamin Barson presents a “music history from below”, embracing the Haitian revolution, post ...

Its focus is the jazz history of Economy Hall ... and soulful — in sum, Economy Hall was New Orleans under a roof.” At the turn of the 20th century, the hall and its patrons heard music ...