The live music options in New Orleans this week include a free Cajun and zydeco festival and one of the most acclaimed new ...

Lillian Boutté-l’Etienne, the jazz and gospel singer who spent decades in Europe advocating for the music of her native New ...

The magic of New Orleans is rooted not only in its exquisite culinary offerings but also in the sound that surrounds the city ...

A jazz funeral celebrates the return and remembrance of 19 African American individuals taken for racial pseudoscience over ...

Bassist George Porter Jr. and drummer Zigaboo Modeliste played the very first New Orleans Jazz & Heritage festival in 1970 with their groundbreaking funk band The Meters. More than 50 years later ...

Scenes like this are a common sight at Preservation Hall, which is known for being one of New Orleans’ most iconic jazz venues. Its musicians play for thousands of music lovers and students each ...

New Orleans is known as the birthplace of jazz. Take a walk through the French quarter, and you'll likely hear a band playing. But how do the culture-bearers there keep the genre alive?

Brainstorming to reinvent the San Francisco Jazz Festival, SFJazz Executive Artistic Director Terence Blanchard didn’t have to search far for an organizing concept. “Look where I’m from, bro,” the New ...

New Orleans, on Thursday, May 22. Marsalis will play a score comprising primarily his own compositions with a 13-member jazz ensemble while Licad will play the music of 19th century American ...

Black New Orleans withstood the battle ... residents who willingly moved to the birthplace of jazz now file noise complaints about live music. Sacred, ancestral traditions like second lines ...

Batiste hails from a family revered as a musical dynasty in the New Orleans area, having spawned numerous notable musicians including his uncle, celebrated jazz drummer Lionel Batiste. Need a break?

the Chaplin-esque silent feature imagines the life of Louis as a 6-year-old in New Orleans as he starts to play music on the cornet. Marsalis and a 10-piece jazz ensemble play a score that ...