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Discover how jazz was born and evolved in New Orleans from the melting pot of cultures and influences. Explore the legends, venues and museums that celebrate the cradle of American music.
- Musical Legends Park
Our wonderful outdoor courtyard and patio bar is dedicated...
- Kermit Ruffins
The late Emperor of the World, born in Charity Hospital,...
- The Davenport Lounge
Located in the Ritz-Carlton, New Orleans, this upscale,...
- New Orleans Jazz Museum
Celebrates jazz in the city where it was born. Through...
- Preservation Hall
Open nightly with concerts at 8, 9 and 10pm Mondays through...
- New Orleans’ Congo Square
In the southern corner of Armstrong Park is Congo Square, an...
- Musical Legends Park
- Sidney Bechet, "Treat It Gentle"
- Baby Dodds, "The Baby Dodds Story"
- Louis Armstrong, "Satchmo: My Life in New Orleans"
- Pops Foster, "Pops Foster: The Autobiography of A New Orleans Jazzman"
- Jelly Roll Morton, "Mr. Jelly Roll"
- Nick Larocca
There was this club, too, that we played at, the Twenty-Five Club. That was about 1912, 1913; and all the time we played there, people were talking about Freddie Keppard. Freddie, he had left New Orleans with his band and he was traveling all over the country playing towns on the Orpheum Circuit. At the time, you know, that was something new and Fr...
[Big Eye Louis Nelson] lived downtown, and I lived uptown. He was on the north side of town, and I was living on the south side. In other words, he was a Creole and lived in the French part of town. Canal Street was the dividing line and the people from the different sections didn't mix. The musicians mixed only if you were good enough. But at one ...
The funerals in New Orleans are sad until the body is finally lowered into the grave and the reverend says, "ashes to ashes and dust to dust." After the brother was six feet under the ground the band would strike up one of those good old tunes like "Didn't He Ramble", and all the people would leave their worries behind. Particularly when King Olive...
From about 1900 on, there were three types of bands playing in New Orleans. You had bands that played ragtime, ones that played sweet music, and the ones that played nothin' but blues. A band like John Robichaux's played nothin' but sweet music and played the dirty affairs. On a Saturday night Frankie Duson's Eagle Band would play the Masonic Hall ...
You see, New Orleans was very organization-minded. I have never seen such beautiful clubs as they had there...the Broadway Swells, the High Arts, the Orleans Aides, the Bulls and Bears, the Tramps, the Iroquois, the Allegroes...that was just a few of them, and those clubs would parade at least once a week. They'd have a great big band. The grand ma...
"[T]he Livery Stable Blues" became a national hit. It was all over the world, even down in Honolulu and all where American forces went...we entertained over a million men... I played on the bill with Caruso. I played on the bills with Jolson. I played on the bills with Eddie Cantor.
24. Feb. 2012 · The birthplace of jazz. How New Orleans became the breeding ground for a uniquely American art form.
14. Apr. 2015 · The early development of jazz in New Orleans was connected to the community life of the city, as seen in brass band funerals, music for picnics in parks or ball games, Saturday night fish fries, and Sunday camping along the shores of Lake Ponchartrain at Milneburg and Bucktown.
History of Jazz Music: Birthplace New Orleans. New Orleans is the birthplace of jazz. Learn about the rich history of the area's famous jazz musicians and their continuing influence on jazz in New Orleans and the rest of the world.
New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park is a U.S. National Historical Park in the Tremé neighborhood of New Orleans, near the French Quarter. It was created in 1994 to celebrate the origins and evolution of jazz. Most of the historical park property consists of 4 acres (16,000 m 2) within Louis Armstrong Park leased by the ...
New Orleans is undisputed as the birthplace of jazz music. But why New Orleans? What is it about this place that it spawned jazz, and not somewhere else? This question may not be...
