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13th WardUptown Ruler: 13th Ward Tour
Lower Ninth Ward Blues: Hurricane Katrina Tour
13th WardNeville Family Home
12th WardWalter L. Cohen High School
UptownThe Nite Cap
GentillyPeaches Records
UptownMahalia Jackson's birthplace
Swing Out: Great Depression and World War II Tour
View from the pews at Mt. Moriah Baptist Church, which inspired Mahalia Jackson throughout her life.
UptownMount Moriah Baptist Church
French QuarterLyric Theater
7th WardJeunes Amis Hall / Equity Hall
N.O. Block Party: Public Housing Tour
7th WardSt. Bernard Public Housing Development
Roger Lewis, seen here in 2017, drew from lessons at Houston's School of Music as a baritone saxophone player in Fats Domino's touring band and in local brass bands.
TremeWalking 'Round in the Sixth Ward: Treme Tour
TremeNew Orleans/Mahalia Jackson Theater for the Performing Arts
Central CityBout It Bout It: Central City Tour
The Dixie Cups performing in 1977: Rosa Lee Hawkins, Joanne Kenney, and Barbara Hawkins.
Central CityCalliope (B.W. Cooper) Public Housing Development
Earl King on guitar at the Gator Ball in 1980.
Central CityVictor Augustine's Curio Shop
TremeMunicipal Auditorium
TremePlace Congo: Armstrong Park Tour
TremeTreme's Petit Jazz Museum
TremeEarl Palmer's House
Paul Barbarin's funeral in St. Louis Cemetery No. 2 in 1969. Barbarin died while playing in a parade on Mardi Gras Day.
TremeSt. Louis Cemetery No. 2
Joe Clay performs at the Ponderosa Stomp in New Orleans on October 2, 2015.
Deep Cuts: Tour the Hidden Gems of New Orleans Music History
Band instructor Yvonne Busch, seen here at G.W. Carver Senior High School in 1962, where she was surprised with the award for Teacher of the Year.
7th WardHouston's School of Music
Treme-LafitteLafitte Public Housing Development
7th WardLeroy Jones' Garage
The Meters at Jazz Fest.
GentillyThe Fair Grounds
LakeviewCity Park Stadium/Tad Gormley Stadium
New Orleans Mardi Gras Indians Uptown Super Sunday Big Chief Monk Boudreaux.
Central CityLet's Go Get 'Em: Uptown Super Sunday Tour
French QuarterDo The Grind: Bourbon Street Tour
From St. Joseph's Day 1942, Baby Dolls stop at Pete's Blue Heaven, a bar that occupied the Little Gem Saloon building.
The Harlem of New Orleans: South Rampart Street Tour
Enslaved people dancing in Congo Square
TremeCongo Square
Central CityMagnolia (C.J. Peete) Public Housing Development
Looking down Royal Street at St. Peter in the heart of the French Quarter.
French QuarterStruttin': French Quarter Walking Tour
Looking down Basin Street in Storyville. The famous madams had houses in a line just beyond Tom Anderson’s on the corner.
High Society Rag: the First Venues for Jazz Tour
Littdell "Queen B" Bannister and Irving "Honey" Bannister, Jr. with the Golden Sioux Mardi Gras Indians in 2016.
Sew, Sew, Sew: The Music, Dance, and Suits of the Mardi Gras Indians Tour
Members of the Hot 8 Brass Band, including Terrell "Burger" Batiste in wheelchair at left and Keith "Wolf" Anderson at far right play in traditional black and white uniforms for the Black Men of Labor Social Aid & Pleasure Club second line parade in 2009.
Take It To The Street: Brass Bands in New Orleans After 1980 Tour
Preservation Hall postcard circa 1975.
French QuarterPreservation Hall
Baby Dolls posing in New Orleans 1942
TremeBackstreet Cultural Museum
The Werlein's sign on Canal Street, which outlasted the store itself.
French QuarterWerlein's Music Store
Central CityBooker T. Washington High School Auditorium
Perseverance Society Hall in 2017.
7th WardPerseverance Society Hall
TremeWWOZ Treehouse Studio
Jazz Funeral led by the Tambourine & Fan Club, circa 1977.
TremeCharbonnet-Labat-Glapion Funeral Home
Mid-CityHolt Cemetery
A brass band plays in Buster Holmes' bar and restaurant
French QuarterBuster Holmes’ Bar and Restaurant
Ellis Marsalis performing at Snug Harbor.
BywaterPiety Street Recording
Inseparable Friends Hall in 2017. Charbonnet-Labat-Glapion Funeral Home at the Claiborne overpass in the background.
TremeSociety of Inseparable Friends Hall
The John Robichaux Orchestra.
7th WardFrancs Amis Hall
Central CityA.L. Davis Park (aka Shakespeare Park)
Original Dixieland Jazz Band: Tony Sbarbaro [Spargo], drums; Eddie Edwards, trombone; Larry Shields, clarinet; Nick LaRocca, cornet and leader; and Henry Ragas, piano.
St. RochWoodmen of the World Hall
Al Taylor in the Rosemont Recording Studio with Vernard Johnson.
TremeRosemont Records
WWOZ Cuttin' Class series with Dolores T. Aaron Academy, led by Andy Bower in studio on April 18, 2017.
French QuarterWWOZ French Market Studio
Promotional image of bounce progenitors TT Tucker and DJ Irv circa 2000.
Bounce Baby Bounce: New Orleans’ Homegrown Hip-Hop Tour
Portrait of Harold Battiste at Piano
All For One: The Mighty Harold Battiste Tour
ILA Hall concert poster from 2003.
Central CityI.L.A. Hall