Danny Barker Guitar and Banjo Fest runs March 18-23, and includes tributes and mentoring events throughout the week, as well as a three-day mini-festival Friday through Sunday at the New Orleans Jazz ...

Discover how New Orleans' cultural blend created jazz through 7 pivotal developments, from Congo Square gatherings to Louis ...

He also recorded, performed and/or toured with Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, Charlie Parker, Billie Holiday, Dizzy Gillespie and Sidney Bechet. He moved back to New Orleans in the mid-1960s ...

New Orleans guitar and banjo player Detroit Brooks got a start touring with his musical family, including father George ...

TICKETS are now on sale for Chiltern Arts Festival, which has several events in the Henley area. The festival, which will run from May 9 to 20, has a theme of journeys and true happenings with the ...

Weekly WWOZ Pick to Click: “Ghost of the Blues” (Sidney Bechet): Yeah, I still pretty much love New Orleans. Weekly Visit to the Pathé Archives: It being Women’s History Month and all ...

playing a solo in “Si Tu Vois Ma Mere” (“If You See My Mother”) by American and French jazz musician and composer Sidney Bechet, and band member Kathy Soderlund as a dancer in “Don’t C ...

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Through the lens of this musical kaleidoscope, she explores the music of Django Reinhardt, Sidney Bechet, Cole Porter, and other composers who were at the origins of French jazz, while adding her own ...

Perhaps it is the fact that technological advancements allow for superior sound quality of the music of Louis Armstrong's Hot Five and Hot Seven, Bix Beiderbecke and Sidney Bechet. Reinforcement from ...