What is the proper response when an icon from your personal Mount Rushmore falls?

Trombone Shorty and Mannie Fresh also join the New Orleans rapper for the showcase taped in Washington D.C.

It was, Dave Chappelle said at the outset of his Thursday set, a “historic night” in New Orleans: “In the middle of me being canceled, we broke the attendance record.”

The jazz musician is recovering in a Hawaiian hospital

Jimmy Buffett launched his musical career in New Orleans and never stopped having a good time here.

As the push to rebrand Confederate-related street names in New Orleans gains momentum, Jimmy Anselmo, the longtime proprietor of Jimmy’s Music Club, has launched a social media campaign to give

Eighteen days before the opening of the 1974 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, a fire destroyed rhythm & blues piano legend Professor Longhair’s home.

He and his band the Roadmasters were fixtures of New Orleans nightclubs for decades

For the first time since the coronavirus pandemic commenced a year ago, Tipitina’s and the Howlin’ Wolf plan to open to the public.

The fifth time’s the charm.

Little Freddie King has earned every one of his 80 years.

Some New Orleans magic made its way to France with the help of the St. Aug Marching 100.

Rosa Lee Hawkins, one of the three original singers in New Orleans rhythm & blues vocal trio the Dixie Cups, died Tuesday at Tampa General Hospital in Florida. She was

Malcolm John Rebennack Jr., known around the world as Dr. John, initially aspired to be a professional songwriter, producer and sideman, like the utilitarian New Orleans musicians who forged his

If the Recording Academy invites you to help announce its Grammy Award nominees, chances are you're going to earn at least one of those nominations.

At 91, jazz cornetist Jack Fine thought his rambling days were done.

Say what you will about the artistic merits of “NCIS: New Orleans,” at least its characters never hosted a gumbo party.

The Rebirth Brass Band's Phil Frazier is no stranger to rebirth.

The Grammy Awards served as a commemoration for one musician from Kenner and a coronation for another.

Art “Poppa Funk” Neville shaped the sound of New Orleans music for a half-century. The keyboardist and singer co-founded the Meters and the Neville Brothers, two of the most important

A coronavirus pandemic is not a good time to be a music club owner or a member of a touring band. It’s an even worse time to be both.

She also notched a hit cover version of the zydeco song 'My Toot Toot' and was an icon in the New Orleans area.

The band played two new songs to a mostly empty Fair Grounds on Wednesday afternoon

Jason Marsalis was already an accomplished jazz drummer when he took up the vibraphone. The first time he ever played the instrument publicly was at Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro alongside

The band mixed old and new in front of a huge crowd.

Three nights before his headlining gig at the festival, he played a small New Orleans barroom

Avant-jazz saxophonist and educator Edward “Kidd” Jordan didn’t always get paid.

The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival gave itself an out, then opted not to take it.

The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation, the nonprofit that owns Jazz Fest, has launched a relief fund for Louisiana musicians who have lost income because of the coronavirus pandemic.

The band played to a huge crowd at the Fair Grounds in New Orleans

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Soldiers who were not much older than high school students lie at rest in the cemetery.