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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Tired yet? The second weekend of the 2026 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival is as jam-packed as the first, with music clubs, theaters and other venues across the city ...

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: ...

The first published novel by Kalamu ya Salaam is cause for celebration. “Walkin’ Blues,” a speculative account of the life of Mississippi blues legend Robert Johnson — one of the most lauded and ...