… restaurant: “An exceptional beefsteak dinner, $1.50,” says the ad. “Served from noon to 9 p.m. with elaborate entertainment. The Original Dixieland ‘Jazz’ Band.” An advertisement for a New York supper club where Freddie Keppard’s Original Creole …
Category: New Orleans
Jazz prodigy Joey Alexander makes stellar Houston debut
Jazz prodigy Joey Alexander,13, talks to the crowd at the Wortham Theater Friday Feb. 17, 2017. Jazz prodigy Joey Alexander,13, talks to the crowd at the Wortham Theater Friday Feb. 17, 2017.
Why John Boutte says musicians can’t afford to live in New Orleans: Report
Housing costs have run John Boutte out of town. In a video for Jazz Night in America , which is a radio program and documentary series from NPR, the New Orleans singer talks about the high housing costs and various issues with post-Katrina living that he says have sent musicians out of the city.
Review: ‘Krazy’ by Michael Tisserand
In 1890, when George Herriman was 10 years old, his family moved from New Orleans to California, and George became white. He was the grandson of a white man and a Creole woman, and the Herrimans had long been active in New Orleans’ black community.