When the Preservation Hall Jazz Band was created in 1961 to bring the sound of live New Orleans jazz music into a local New ...

For more than 30 years, fans knew they could generally find clarinetist Doreen Ketchens busking on the corner of Royal and St. Peters ... man in her band, Doreen's Jazz New Orleans.

The American musical art form jazz emerges in New Orleans around the advent ... who join riverboat bands or move to cities such as Memphis, Chicago, St. Louis, and Kansas City, where local styles ...

An American art form now more than a century old, jazz emerged ... singing on street corners for spare change to support his family. He absorbed the New Orleans music scene and began playing ...

Y ou can give "thanks" for New Orleans music and culture this Sunday, Nov. 24, from 2-6 p.m. at Mo’s Chalet in Metairie, as ...

Jazz is a genre that emerged out of the late 19th century with its roots in blues and ragtime. The music originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans ... styles over the decades such ...

But there’s also plenty of New ... jazz/gospel staple “Just a Closer Walk With Thee” and ends with an homage to the city’s long history of street performances. “In New Orleans, bands ...