The hall, which didn’t even have air conditioning until 2019, has persisted against steep odds, much like the city of New Orleans. And at the time of the hall’s founding, New Orleans jazz was ...

Half a century earlier, jazz grew out of New Orleans’s brothels ... whose frontman, Jim James, went on to help produce “That’s It!,” the hall’s first-ever album of original music.

The distinct sounds of New Orleans will fill Popejoy Hall on Saturday ... Ellis Marsalis, James Black and other New Orleans musicians. Rozanna M. Martinez is the arts and entertainment editor ...