partly by arranging for the boy to sit in with New Orleans Dixieland players and legends such as pianist Eubie Blake and drummer Buddy Rich. Connick was born March 27, 1926, in Mobile, Alabama ...
Three trailblazing women share their take on the new wave of restaurants and pop-ups defining the Big Easy dining scene—and ...
NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — Around every corner of ... Dating back further, the “Dukes of Dixieland” came about in 1948. A Dixieland ...
Raise a stein, have a brat and enjoy a good chicken dance during this fall festival on the banks of Bayou St. John.
The most dramatic entrance of Southern-derived music on the national scene, however, came after 1917, when a few bands from New Orleans, including the Original Dixieland jazz Band and Joe "King ...
Gov. Jeff Landry is not opposed to passenger rail service between Baton Rouge and New Orleans, but he would rather see three ...
Fun fact: Chicago-style jazz is a combination of Mississippi Delta and New Orleans “Dixieland” style, but with heavy bass and guitar, longer solos, and fast tempos. It may be deeply rooted in ...
Jazz begins in New Orleans, nineteenth century America's ... Critics divide the music into "schools" - Dixieland, swing, bebop, hard bop, modal, free, avant-garde. But most young people are ...
Jim moved to New Orleans in 2018, to front a new Jazz Band, The Assunto Dukes Tribute, who play the music of Frank and Freddie Assunto, who were The Original Dukes of Dixieland.
A regular performer in Sacramento, trumpet player Bria Skonberg celebrates New Orleans with her new album, “What It Means.” ...