YOU KNOW, AND NEW ORLEANS HAS HAD A TON OF CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE MUSIC WORLD. I MEAN, YOU CAN’T GO ANYWHERE IN THIS CITY AND NOT HEAR SOME JAZZ. SO WE WENT OUT TO UNDERSTAND THE HISTORY BEHIND IT.

Before the pandemic ... The whole place feels like a New Orleans-flavored Austin, Texas, in a good way. The eclectic offerings range from roots music to avant-jazz to bounce to silent movie ...

and has been playing music for as long as he can remember, growing up in the Tremé neighborhood of New Orleans. Dating back to his first New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival performance at just ...

Jon Batiste brought musicianship and New Orleans flair to the Super Bowl national anthem, while Lauren Daigle and Ledisi also ...

“Jazz in New Orleans is really dance music,” said New Orleans Jazz Museum Director Greg Lambousy. “From second lines to weddings, parties of all sorts.” Lambousy says jazz has its roots in ...

“New Orleans is a two-way embrace,” says Ben Jaffe, the director of historic French Quarter jazz-club institution Preservation Hall, when I ask him what it takes to endure here. “It comes ...