Every year thousands of bands and fans travel to the southern state of Louisiana for the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival.

VOA: special.2009.05.01

It was the result of hours of recorded discussions with New Orleans jazz great Jelly Roll Morton.

VOA: special.2010.01.25

Jazz at Lincoln Center worked with the Museum of Modern Art in New York to give Ted Nash access to its art collection.

VOA: special.2010.03.24

They included Coachella in California, the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival and Bonnaroo in Tennessee.

VOA: special.2009.02.06

Starting in the early nineteen eighties, Paul began playing in jazz clubs in New York City.

VOA: special.2009.09.27

Another nickname is the Birthplace of Jazz because that kind of music started in New Orleans.

VOA: special.2010.03.14

This week We travel to Louisiana for the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival And answer a question about a group of landscape painters.

VOA: special.2009.05.01

Wynton Marsalis is the artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City.

VOA: special.2010.03.24

He moved to New Orleans to study music and enjoy the city's energetic jazz scene.

VOA: special.2010.01.22

Yet,they had to fight the criticism of those opposed to any new development in jazz.

VOA: special.2009.05.03

He also played with other young jazz musicians who helped make the new sound known.

VOA: special.2009.05.03

She says it is important to let jazz music breathe, and evolve in new ways.

VOA: special.2010.04.09

She also made records and performed at New York City's Caf Society jazz club.

VOA: special.2010.05.23

And we play music from a new album by jazz drummer Terri Lyne Carrington.

VOA: special.2009.10.02

This new kind of jazz attracted both lovers of jazz and classical music.

VOA: special.2009.03.01

It was at Birdland, the most famous jazz nightclub in New York City.

VOA: special.2009.05.03

This week . We play new music from jazz artist Diana Krall .

VOA: special.2009.04.24

And play some inventive new music from jazz artist Pat Metheny.

VOA: special.2010.03.12

Jazz musician Wynton Marsalis is a native of New Orleans.

VOA: special.2009.05.01

He developed a new style of jazz called "bebop."

VOA: special.2009.05.03

The 2010 Jazz Festival poster is a portrait of the late New Orleans singer,songwriter and bandleader Louis Prima, painted by jazzman Tony Bennett.

VOA: standard.2010.04.26

Over the years, it's been recorded by Glenn Miller, Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald and Sammy Davis,Jr., and,for the new Johnny Mercer documentary, by British jazz star Jamie Cullum.

VOA: standard.2010.04.12

Graduating with music degrees from Spelman College and the University of Colorado, Tia moved to New York where she performed and recorded with a who's who of jazz greats.

VOA: standard.2010.06.09

During that time,he performed in various European jazz and rock bands, sang on several Hollywood soundtracks, and composed nine original songs for his new album, including "I Love This."

VOA: standard.2010.04.16