Discover how New Orleans' cultural blend created jazz through 7 pivotal developments, ... Tom Brown’s Band from Dixieland relocated to Chicago in 1915, ...

New Orleans trumpet player and composer Jimmy LaRocca died over the weekend. Jimmy‘s father, also a trumpet player, Nick LaRocca, was the leader of The Original Dixieland Jazz Band, the first ...

The band, whose repertoire covers the gamut of traditional New Orleans jazz to Dixieland and more, will put a New Orleans sensibility on Christmas classics. Food trucks and holiday music will be ...

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 Friday at the fest ...

"With New Orleans Dixieland jazz and some of the great New Orleans food and hurricane drinks, it's our favorite event." ... "They call it the heart and soul of a jazz band," Baier said.