A new recording features pianist McCoy Tyner and saxophonist Joe Henderson in a concert taped in New York City in 1966. The music here is a prelude to later iconic records by each leader.

Today in Music History for Jan. 30: In 1917, the Original Dixieland Jazz Band recorded ``Darktown Strutters' Ball.'' Some historians consider this to be the earliest commercially made jazz record. It ...

Prolific freeborn Creole composer Edmond Dédé’s career took him from New Orleans to Paris, but his masterwork has remained ...

New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival lineup includes Pearl Jam, Santana, Dave Matthews Band, and many more, celebrating the city's musical spirit ...

New Orleans-born composer Edmond Dédé's opera 'Morgiane' was lost for more than 130 years. The earliest known opera by a ...

New Orleans-born composer Edmond Dédé's opera 'Morgiane' was lost for more than 130 years. The earliest known opera by a Black American composer finally finds life on stage.

The Steamboat Natchez offers a paddle-wheel boat experience on the Mississippi River. Departing from the French Quarter ...

The late Dick Kerrigan, of Delgany, County Wicklow, got the send-off he so wanted and so richly deserved as he was taken to ...

But the headline act was not the ship, it was the Mississippi itself. Dubbed “the great artery of America” by Civil War ...

Paul Cosentino’s Boilermaker Jazz Band will play Dixieland jazz in the Jan. 13 and 14 openers of the 2025 concert season of the Florida Keys Concert Association. Monday’s concert will be held at ...

The Mainland marching band grabs three first place trophies in the Sugar Bowl Battle of the Bands and New Year's Eve parade.

Federal and local authorities are urgently sweeping the French Quarter and the rest of New Orleans on the eve of one of its biggest events of the year, the Sugar Bowl college football game ...