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 ...

One hundred years ago this week, five New Orleans musicians made the first recording of a new genre of music unknown to most of the nation. “Livery Stable Blues,” the first studio number scratched ...

WALTON — Music on the Delaware will open its 2022 concert season with the Realtime Dixieland Band at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 12, at Walton Theatre at 31 Gardiner Place in Walton. According to a ...

The sound that would come to be called “Dixieland” developed from the jazz music of early 20th-century New Orleans, epitomized by figures like Louis Armstrong and Jelly Roll Morton. But it didn’t get ...

Like sidewalk superintendents, jazz fans like to watch and listen to a clicking combo even if they know little about what is actually going on. The least among the initiates can watch a hot lick go ...

Get ready for the 16th-annual Southcoast Dixieland Clambake Jazz Festival, to be held Friday through Sunday at four Bay Area venues. This fun, family event will feature 15 bands from Oregon, ...

The Cajun fiddle and Creole button accordion (or squeeze box) met with Caribbean dance music such as the Congo, counjai, and bamboula in a fusion of regional sounds that would set the stage for ...