But after Katrina, New Orleans jazz, blues and zydeco artists were scattered across the nation.
For Gress, it's an update of how horns intertwine in old New Orleans jazz.
At the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, which closes this weekend, Juvenile gave an emotional performance.
One of the oldest recordings made by WWOZ, it was rescued by the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation.
Tourism officials said attendance at Mardi Gras and the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival in 2007 was near pre-storm levels.
It's absolutely an all-star lineup of New Orleans jazz and blues performers.
Today McDonogh 15 is more accustomed to happy hallways bursting with the colors of Mardi Gras and the strains of adolescents playing New Orleans jazz in the school band.
And John Fulljames directs "American Lulu, " composer Olga Neuwirth's New Orleans jazz reworking of the first two acts of Alban Berg's opera, with a third act entirely her own (Sept. 14-24).
These are musicians who "contributed to the architecture of rock 'n' roll, " Padnos says, by transforming the traditional, bass-heavy New Orleans jazz of the marching band and whorehouse piano into something entirely new.
As clarinet player and scholar Michael White points out, New Orleans jazz arose out of turbulent times in the early decades of the twentieth century, and these post-Katrina years are turbulent times, too.
Laurendine is already in the works of coordinating more hackathon events in conjunction with larger sporting and music events, including the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival in April and this years Final Four in Atlanta.
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Panic is a civic art, a birthright that runs deep, like New Orleans and jazz.
Following Woody Allen on a 1996 concert tour through Europe with his New Orleans-style jazz band, the documentary filmmaker Barbara Kopple touchingly reveals the inextricable unity of the man and his movie persona and suggests the psychic conflicts at the heart of his great films.
Today, brass bands still invigorate the streets during Mardi Gras, French Quarter jazz clubs deliver the best in live improvisation on any given night, and the Jazz and Heritage Festival brings together the past, present and future of American jazz every spring, proving year after year that New Orleans is still the jazz mecca of the world.
Ruffins, who channels Louis Armstrong with his brilliant trumpet playing and clowning vocals, has played Lincoln Center in New York City and will perform for thousands at Jazz Fest in New Orleans.
In New Orleans, the internationally renowned Jazz Festival begins today, 27 April, running through 6 May.
If New Orleans is the cradle of jazz, then New York's Garment District is where jazz spoke its first words.
On April 30th the focus switches to New Orleans, the birthplace of jazz, where a special concert will take place in Congo Square just after sunrise.
Although New Orleans has been branded "jazz capital" (rightfully so), in truth, on the eve of Katrina, one would be hard-pressed to hear Wynton Marsalis or Irvin Mayfield CDs blaring out of federally subsidized housing.
The scrumptious Cajun cuisine and sweet jazz of New Orleans may make that city seem the perfect place for a fresh start--but the Big Easy is right now the toughest city in the U.S. for finding employment, according to the online job aggregator Indeed.com.
The article 'Celebrate New Orleans, from Mardi Gras to Jazz Fest' was published in partnership with Lonely Planet.
Eight years after the first Newport Jazz Festival, New Orleans tourism and business leaders approached Wein about creating a similar festival in New Orleans.
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Mingus mashed up bebop, swing and soul, all while leading an avant-garde excavation of the free-jazz latent in New Orleans group improvisation a sort of bluesy Charles-Ives-meets-King-Oliver approach.
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Indeed, New Orleans would not be the birthplace of jazz if it had not blended the other musical traditions that already had deep roots here.
Besides food and jazz, what sets New Orleans apart is its unmatched calendar of festivals virtually non-stop, and I just visited at the tail end of Jazz Fest, which is second only to Mardi Gars in scope, and growing.
Mr. BLUMENFELD: This is what New Orleans is about, and it really is, to me, you know, there's a thriving jazz world in New York and elsewhere, but New Orleans, where the Hot 8 as part of, where the black men of the neighborhood part of, where the Mardi Granians(ph) are part of, this is a living culture.
His impact on the world of jazz can be felt throughout New Orleans and around the world today.
Now to New Orleans, a kind of place where a jazz band plays at the ribbon-cutting ceremony for a new condominium and apartment project.
Over a century ago, New Orleans created the distinctively American musical art form called jazz.
Just as jazz was born in the seaport of New Orleans from a blend of African and European sounds, so New York humour was shaped by talented immigrants.
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