With hundreds of performances out at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, it's hard to know where to start. So Gambit has some suggestion for bands and musicians to see on the last day of Jazz ...

Inside a theatre just off of Bourbon Street, a jazz band grooves for an audience of excited second graders on a field trip. As the music fills the decades-old Preservation Hall, the kids laugh, dance ...

New Orleans is the birthplace of Louis Armstrong and jazz itself. The city’s history flies like a contrapuntal melody above the heartbeat rhythms of America. “A lot of people like to consider it the ...

Louisiana has always been a state that dances to its own beat. That beat might be a jazz brunch in Lake Charles, Cajun dance at a traditional pig roast in Baton Rouge, or swamp pop blasting out a ...

The first weekend of the 2025 edition of the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival is underway, with one historic moment for the festival and the city set to take place during the first Saturday. New ...

Feeding Souls Through Sound will take place on Thanksgiving night, Thursday, November 27, at Dodie’s Jazz Club (601 N. Broad ...

Jazz fest starts this weekend in New Orleans and one of its headliners is rapper Lil' Wayne who made it to the main stage with the Roots. New Orleans' highly anticipated Jazz & Heritage Festival ...

NEW ORLEANS — As the second weekend of Jazz Fest kicks off, music lovers have a unique opportunity to own a piece of New Orleans history. Papa Mali, a musician with a career spanning over 50 years, is ...

Many musicians also had to leave New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, so there was a fear that the city's musical culture could be lost. Then two prominent jazz musicians got together and created a ...

106 years ago, in 1919, there was a serial killer in New Orleans called the Axeman. Apparently, he really liked jazz. As the story goes, he terrorized the city between May 1918 and October 1919, ...