64 Parishes

"When the Saints Go Marching In"

"When the Saints Go Marching In" has been adopted as the anthem of the city of New Orleans and is the fight song of its football team, The Saints, named in its honor.

Al Hirt

Al Hirt was a New Orleans trumpeter and bandleader was one of the most successful instrumental recording artists in the 1960s.

Dick Allen

Jazz historian Dick Allen was instrumental in the founding of the William Ransom Hogan Jazz Archive at Tulane and was a curator of the archive from 1958 to 1980.

Inventing Jazz

Big talker Jelly Roll Morton exaggerated—but not much

Jazz at the Lakefront

Lake Pontchartrain’s shore was an early jazz locus

Kid Ory

Trombonist and bandleader Kid Ory, a pioneer of the traditional New Orleans Jazz style, played a key role in the New Orleans Revival of the 1940s.

Satchmo and the Jewish Family

Louis Armstrong never forgot the employers who nurtured him as a boy

The Dodds Brothers

Baby and Toilet outshone their names

The Sicilian Jazzman

Traditional New Orleans Jazz

Traditional New Orleans jazz is a musical genre with distinctive stylistic features that are tied to festival traditions within a discrete, regional culture.

Traditional New Orleans Jazz

Experimenting and improvising are important parts of this American musical form.