Professor Longhair’s home on Terpsichore Street has been fully restored. Overseen by Project Homecoming, the Tipitina’s Foundation, and the United Way of Southeast Louisiana, the restoration project ...

A previously unreleased Professor Longhair recording will finally see the light of day this year. The forthcoming album–Live at the University of Chicago Folk Festival – February 1, 1976--is slated ...

Ask any pianist in town, Henry Roeland Byrd is the dude who first laid that characteristic tropical rhumba sound on New Orleans rhythm and blues, back in the 1950s. There’s a little Byrd in every ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE)—On the eve of Jazz Fest’s final day, a vibrant block party erupted to celebrate the renaming of Terpsichore Street to honor New Orleans music legend Professor Longhair. Known ...

There’s a new “Big Chief” in town. On Tuesday, Mardi Gras Records released "I'm Feeling Good! (Big Chief Remix)," a wholesale reinvention of Professor Longhair’s timeless 1965 Carnival classic “Big ...

"Professor Longhair, Rugged and Funky" dives into the life of unsung musical genius Professor Longhair. Known as the "Originator of Funk and Rock & Roll" and "The Bach of Rock", Professor Longhair ...

Those and other songs by Professor Longhair, not to mention his brilliantly original piano playing, are part of the New Orleans soundtrack. The Bach of rock, as Allen Toussaint calls the late Henry ...

Bruce Iglauer, the founder of roots-music label Alligator Records, never tires of Henry Roeland Byrd, aka Professor Longhair. Likewise, 33 years after the New Orleans piano master’s death on Jan. 30, ...