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13th WardHumphrey Family Home
13th WardUptown Ruler: 13th Ward Tour
Lower Ninth Ward Blues: Hurricane Katrina Tour
12th WardWalter L. Cohen High School
13th WardIdris Muhammad's apartment
UptownThe Nite Cap
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
7th WardJeunes Amis Hall / Equity Hall
Benevolent Society / Social Aid & Pleasure Club Tour
N.O. Block Party: Public Housing Tour
7th WardSt. Bernard Public Housing Development
Sidney Bechet mural by MTO viewed looking up North Claiborne Avenue.
7th WardJazz A La Creole: Seventh Ward Tour
French QuarterThe Brass Rail
Good Rocking Tonight: Rock 'n' Roll Roots in New Orleans Tour
Upper 9th WardClub Desire
Upper 9th WardThe Hideaway
Central CityRhythm Club/Club Rocket
Central CityThe Robin Hood
Central CityFoster's Hotel
American Jazz Quintet group photo from 1987
Central CityHayes' Chicken Shack/Vernon's
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
TremeJohn McDonogh High School
Central Business DistrictFisk School
TremeCraig Elementary School
Central CityClub Tiajuana
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
TremeMunicipal Auditorium
TremePlace Congo: Armstrong Park Tour
TremeSan Jacinto Club
TremeCaldonia Inn
TremeGypsy Tea Room
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 in her uniform from Joseph S. Clark Senior High School.
TremeJoseph S. Clark High School
Treme-LafitteLafitte Public Housing Development
From 2010, members of the Hot 8 Brass Band, including leader Bennie Pete on sousaphone, outside of the Autocrat Club.
7th WardThe Autocrat Club
LakeviewCity Park Stadium/Tad Gormley Stadium
St. Louis Cemetery No. 3 in 2007.
Mid-CitySt. Louis Cemetery No. 3
Crowd at the 2017 French Quarter Festival outside the New Orleans Jazz Museum at the Old U.S. Mint.
French Quarter Fest Tour: Sites near the Stages
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
Postcard (c. 1901-1911) with an image of a Mardi Gras parade on Canal Street.
Carnival Time: Mardi Gras Parade Route 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
Patsy Vidalia and Bobby Marchanonstage at the Dew Drop.
Central CityDew Drop Inn
Louis Armstrong in 1955.
Central Business DistrictKarnofsky Shop and Residence
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
An iconic early portrait of Armstrong, which shows the impression the cornet made on his upper lip.
Back o’ Town Blues: Louis Armstrong in New Orleans Tour
Antoine “Fats” Domino (b. 1928), August 8, 1957.
Feel So Good: Rhythm and Blues in New Orleans 1940 to 1970 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
Though the space is now a Laundromat, the entrance to J&M Music Shop and Studio remains.
French QuarterJ&M Recording Studio
Central Business DistrictDownbeat Club
The Astoria in 1956.
Central Business DistrictAstoria Hotel
The New Orleans Jazz Museum at the old U.S. Mint.
French QuarterNew Orleans Jazz Museum at the Old U.S. Mint
Funky Butt Hall in 1946.
Central Business DistrictUnion Sons Hall (aka Funky Butt Hall)
Benny Spellman on stage
13th WardValencia Club
The Werlein's sign on Canal Street, which outlasted the store itself.
French QuarterWerlein's Music Store
Dooky Chase sign in 2012
TremeDooky Chase Restaurant
Central CityBooker T. Washington High School Auditorium
Perseverance Society Hall in 2017.
7th WardPerseverance Society Hall
Mural of Buddy Bolden and band painted in 2018 by Brandan "BMike" Odums seen here in 2019.
Central Business DistrictLittle Gem Saloon and Buddy Bolden Mural
Central Business DistrictMorris Music
Jazz Funeral led by the Tambourine & Fan Club, circa 1977.
TremeCharbonnet-Labat-Glapion Funeral Home
Mid-CityHolt Cemetery
West End Hotel with chairs for the bandstand set up to the left.
LakeviewWest End
Inseparable Friends Hall in 2017. Charbonnet-Labat-Glapion Funeral Home at the Claiborne overpass in the background.
TremeSociety of Inseparable Friends Hall
TremePerseverance Masonic Lodge No. 4
Etoile Polaire Lodge in 2017.
7th WardEtoile Polaire (Polar Star) Lodge No. 1
The John Robichaux Orchestra.
7th WardFrancs Amis Hall
The Mcdonough 35 school orchestra from 1927-1928, under Osceola Blanchet (at right).
Central Business DistrictMcDonogh #35 High School
French QuarterDixie's Bar of Music
French QuarterSho Bar
Central CityA.L. Davis Park (aka Shakespeare Park)
The Unione Italiana building in 2017.
French QuarterUnione Italiana (aka Italian Hall)
Danny Barker performing in Woldenberg Park circa 1991.
French QuarterJunius Hart Piano House and Alamo Dance Hall
Eddie Bo at his club Check Your Bucket in New Orleans, 2004.
Warehouse DistrictGrunewald School of Music
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
Jesuit alumnus Harry Connick, Jr. on stage with one of his piano teachers, the virtuoso James Booker.
Mid-CityJesuit High School
French QuarterPaddock Lounge
Sid Davilla, Mrs. Peggy Vagabond, Lizzie Miles, and Mrs. Sid Davilla pictured at the Mardi Gras Lounge, date unknown.
French QuarterMardi Gras Lounge
The Elks Lodge building in 2017.
Central Business DistrictElks Lodge No. 30
Central Business DistrictThe Bop Shop
Sharkey Bonano and Pork Chop on stage in 1950. This photo was taken by a twenty-one-year-old Stanley Kubrick, who was on assignment on Bourbon Street for Look magazine.
French QuarterFamous Door
Portrait of Harold Battiste at Piano
All For One: The Mighty Harold Battiste Tour