The first full week of 2025 is relatively quiet in New Orleans. There are no big concerts, Tipitina’s is closed for the ...

With a simple setup of a snare drum, bass drum, two toms and two or three cymbals, Arthur “Zutty” Singleton was considered an ...

If nothing else, 2024 in New Orleans will be remembered as the year The Rolling Stones and Taylor Swift came to town and the ...

Jazz grew out of different music ... He absorbed the New Orleans music scene and began playing small clubs and parades before Joe "King" Oliver, a fellow horn player, became his mentor.

The American musical art form jazz emerges in New Orleans around the advent of the ... performers are banned from performing at white clubs. In 1917, the U.S. Navy, fearing dissipation and ...

For years, purist fans of traditional New Orleans jazz have worried their favorite ... might be played for many more years in ...

Known as the grandfather of jazz drumming, Louis Albert “Old Man” Cottrell introduced the press roll technique, which ...