Music

Joe James
From 1925 until his death in 1964, Joe James was the regular pianist in Kid Thomas’s band.
From 1925 until his death in 1964, Joe James was the regular pianist in Kid Thomas’s band.
In 1924 New Orleans pitcher Oyster Joe Martina led the Washington Senators baseball team against the New York Giants to win the World Series.
Traditional jazz and early rhythm and blues pianist Joe Robichaux may be best remembered as bandleader of the New Orleans Rhythm Boys.
The nephew of jazz talent Johnny St. Cyr, Joe Watkins was a traditional jazz drummer and vocalist from New Orleans.
John A. Dixon, Jr. served as the Chief Justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court from 1980 to 1990.
John B. Fournet served as the chief justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court from 1949 to 1970.
Artist John Clemmer was an active member of the New Orleans art scene from the 1930s-2010s.
John Franks dominated the sport of horse racing for over twenty years and became one of the leading stable owners and breeders in the country.
Artist John Geldersma has assembled a body of work that can best be described as spiritually symbolic totems; carved, smooth, often painted, vertical wooden poles with tapered ends.
Twentieth-century Louisiana architect John Jacob Desmond pioneered a style of regional modernism.
New Orleans author John Kennedy Toole is known for his posthumously published novel "A Confederacy of Dunces," which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1981.
John Avery Lomax was a folklorist and musicologist who, with his son Alan Lomax, made the first recording of the Louisiana blues guitarist Huddie Ledbetter (Lead Belly) at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola.
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