As the only traditional-jazz ... Preservation Hall might stand out as something of a red herring at Essence. Tonight in the McDonald's Superlounge, though, the Hall's all-star touring band proved ...

Luke Combs is the latest Jazz Fest headliner to pop up at Preservation Hall while in New Orleans. The iconic venue does not ...

The Preservation Hall Jazz Band derives its name from Preservation Hall ... The New Orleans Jazz Scene, 1970-2000: A Personal Retrospective Thomas W. Jacobsen 208 Pages ISBN: 0807156981 LSU Press 2014 ...

For more than half a century, that music has been performed, protected and preserved by the brass-heavy Preservation Hall Jazz Band. Last year, Preservation Hall Jazz Band celebrated its 50th ...

The seats are simple benches. The space is small. To stand at the back of the hall is to be only 20 or so feet from the band. The wooden walls are washed out. Even the instruments used by the ...

New Orleans’ Preservation Hall Jazz Band has released its first recording of entirely original material as part of its 50 th anniversary celebration. Called “That’s It!,” the album ...

In 2015, the Preservation Hall Jazz Band performed in Cuba at the Havana Jazz Festival. The musicians eventually left Cuba, but Cuba never really left them. Skip to main ...

Scenes like this are a common sight at Preservation Hall, which is known for being one of New Orleans’ most iconic jazz ...

In 1970, he founded the New Orleans Jazz ... So, is it possible to make a living as a member of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band? “Yes,” Roussel says. He also says he doesn’t know anyone ...

Preservation Hall Jazz Band have shared a new song, “Kreyol,” off the soundtrack to the forthcoming documentary A Tuba to Cuba. Recalling his time in Cuba, bandleader Ben Jaffe said of the ...

Nowhere is that idea more vividly embodied than in the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, which has held the torch of New Orleans music aloft for more than 60 years, all the while carrying it ...

“A lot of people like to consider it the northernmost city in the Caribbean, or maybe America’s most European city,” ...