The Danny Barker Banjo & Guitar Festival celebrates Barker’s long career and many contributions to New Orleans’ music as a ...

The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival has announced the lineup for each day of its 2025 edition. Single-day tickets also ...

The city of New Orleans might still be recovering from hosting the Super Bowl, but that’s not stopping the birthplace of jazz music from getting ready to celebrate it’s biggest annual holiday this ...

Mellon Foundation and The Jazz Foundation of America on Tuesday announced the Jazz Legacies Fellowship — a new $15 million program that will give 50 artists who ar ...

Feb. 21, the world-class septet Jazz at Lincoln Center performed their New Orleans Songbook on the Staller Center for the ...

Craving New Orleans flavors? This new Sarasota restaurant serves up the best po’ boys, fried chicken, gumbo, muffuletta — and ...

Most Black New Orleans residents still regard ... Society paid dues for member burials when White funeral homes declined, honoring the dead through a jazz funeral. The jazz-funeral procession ...

Bertha Hope was only three years old when she started playing Brahms’ “Lullaby” on the piano just from hearing it on the radio. “How did you do that?” asked her shocked parents, both ...

A single television plays classic black-and-white movies, muted so as not to ... understand a word they said — during the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. That changed the minute I tried ...

Gian Durand dedicated her ride to New Orleans activist Dorothy Mae-Taylor, who helped diversify Mardi Gras parades. Gian Durand now reigns as the first Black queen ... as an all-white ...

Explore the Windy City through tracks by Ramsey Lewis, Ahmad Jamal, Lester Bowie and the contemporary artists at the ...