Ben Jaffe, director of the hallowed jazz institution in the heart of the French Quarter, grapples with a massacre that ...

Mardi Gras is undoubtedly the headliner in New Orleans. However, the truth is there is so much more to see […] The post ...

April: The annual New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival is held for the first time, with gospel singer and New Orleans-native Mahalia Jackson appearing. September 28: The New Orleans Superdome ...

An American art form now more than a century old, jazz emerged from the streets of New Orleans. The city has produced some of the world's great jazz musicians, none more celebrated than Louis ...

Though jazz and classic blues are really ... North by the time of the Civil War. Likewise, New Orleans--being the center of the American slave trade--had already taken on special significance in the ...

Of all the city's attractions, New Orleans' cemeteries are a one-stop shop for learning about family traditions, history, Voodoo, jazz music and burial practices for above-ground tombs.

Tuesday through Saturday, the center hosts a ranger history talk where visitors can learn more about the area. The center also doubles as the location for the New Orleans Jazz National Historical ...

With a simple setup of a snare drum, bass drum, two toms and two or three cymbals, Arthur “Zutty” Singleton was considered an innovator in jazz drumming.

history, and nightlife attract visitors to New Orleans. There’s lively Jackson Square, St. Louis Cathedral, the French Quarter, and the Mississippi River with jazz cruises aboard Steamboat Natchez.