Ravaged by storms and sharing a tragic fate with neighboring communities last year, New Orleans doesn't have much to celebrate as Mardi Gras approaches. It hurts to think about the lives lost and the ...

BYU is getting ready for a special throwback featuring the sounds of New Orleans traditional jazz. The Jazz Legacy Dixieland Band will hold a free concert Thursday, May 12 at 7:30 p.m. in the Madsen ...

It’s a festive celebration of music, mothers and the Good Lord!” said Pastor Taylor Hagbo. “The service blends our ...

NEW ORLEANS -- Like Paris, London and Rome, New Orleans is one of the world's great walking cities. You can see a lot for free, or a mere picayune, the name of the Spanish coin worth 6 1/4 cents that ...

The inaugural 1959 Playboy Jazz Festival in Chicago was headlined by Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, and the Dukes of Dixieland, among others. It was the largest indoor jazz festival ...

Pete Fountain, whose rousing performances on clarinet made him a star of Dixieland music, a familiar figure on television and in nightclubs, and one of the most popular musical ambassadors of his ...

Merle Haggard was most famous for singing about how proud he was "to be an Okie From Muskogee," but the country music legend -- who died Wednesday (April 6) on his 79 th birthday -- also had a soft ...

Fortnight ago in the Old Absinthe House in New Orleans two oldtime jazzists, one with a trumpet, the other with a clarinet, stepped into the spotlight, played with such authentic abandon, such valid ...

Recorded earlier this year before Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, this album of Christmas songs features the city's own Dukes of Dixieland with guest vocalists. They capture the traditional spirit ...