The New Orleans Jazz & Blues Market, a non-profit organization on a mission to bring the most talented, accomplished and passionate jazz and blues musicians to the stage, announced today that it will ...

Known as the “Queen of Gospel,” Mahalia Jackson needs no introduction. Countless award-winning gospel, blues, soul and jazz singers cite her as one of their key influences. Over the course of her ...

When local blues guitar icon Little Freddie King rolled onto the Blues Tent stage in a throne-like wheelchair during the 2026 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, many fans thought that might be ...

Bill Frisell, one of the world’s most acclaimed jazz guitarists, was puzzled. At the conclusion of the first of his two Oct. 1 shows at the rebranded, reengineered and reborn New Orleans Jazz & Blues ...

HE IS EXPECTED TO BE IN COURT MONDAY. A MAJOR LOSS FOR THE LOUISIANA MUSIC SCENE. KENT ROLL, KNOWN AS LUTHER KENT, HAS DIED. THE 76 YEAR OLD WAS A STAPLE AT JAZZFEST. LUTHER HAD AN EXTENSIVE IMPACT ON ...

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New Orleans blues legend Walter "Wolfman" Washington died last year before his final album, "Feel So At Home," came out. NPR's Sarah McCammon speaks with his producer, Ben Ellman. We could spend the ...

NEW ORLEANS — When you think about music in New Orleans — you probably think of jazz or blues, or maybe funk and bounce. Christmas carols? Not so much. But many musicians in New Orleans have deep ...

When we think of the blues, rural crossroads come to mind. Or maybe roadhouses, or at least sweaty clubs longer on ambience than niceties. Office buildings and imposing architectural structures seem ...

A dozen years ago, when the Blues and BBQ Festival was launched, barbecue was far less prominent on the New Orleans food scene. Things have changed, and the city now boasts more than a few ...