Music
Branford Marsalis
Branford Marsalis and his family were recipients of the 2011 National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters Award, the nation's highest honor for jazz musicians.
David Kunian
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Dew Drop Inn
From the mid-1940s through the 1960s, the Dew Drop Inn was a place where prominent African American entertainers could find work and respectable overnight lodging.
Exit Stage Right
Zack Smith’s festival photographs
He Showed Us What Carnival’s For
A new exhibition at the New Orleans Jazz Museum celebrates Professor Longhair’s Centennial
Music
Marcia Ball
Marcia Ball, a blues and swamp-rock pianist and singer, grew-up in the small town of Vinton.
New Orleans Jazz Makes Room for All the Grooves
New Orleans has an unfair reputation as a city where the only jazz that people play is a century old
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Shirley and Lee
Shirley Goodman and Leonard Lee, better known as Shirley and Lee, topped the rhythm and blues charts in the 1950s.
The Power of Soul
Remembering drummer Idris Muhammed’s versatile, funkified and oft-sampled body of work
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