The New Orleans Jazz & Blues Market is reopening Oct. 1 with a slate of performers and an interior overhaul aimed at making the venue one of the nation’s premier listening rooms. The nonprofit ...

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 ...

NEW ORLEANS — The New Orleans jazz and rhythm & blues community lost a beloved bassist and vocalist late August. Funeral arrangements for George French were announced on Tuesday. The New Orleans Jazz ...

Seasoned bluesman Jerry Dugger, a longtime member of the New York blues community now living in New Orleans, will perform May ...

The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival kicks off Thursday for the first of two jam-packed, four-day weekends at the Fair Grounds. But opening weekend is essentially Jon Batiste weekend.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Samantha Fish, a blues guitarist originally from Kansas City, poses in front of a mural of her on Frenchman Street in New Orleans on Thursday, Jan. 30. Hannah Ruhoff Sun Herald Chiefs in the Big Easy: ...

A benefit concert was held at the House of Blues in New Orleans to raise funds for families affected by the New Year's Day terror attack."Music often brings people ...