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13th WardLe Bon Temps Roule/Roppolo residence
13th WardUptown Ruler: 13th Ward Tour
Lower Ninth Ward Blues: Hurricane Katrina Tour
13th WardNeville Family Home
13th WardBenny's Bar
12th WardWalter L. Cohen High School
Mid-CityDixie Taverne
UptownThe Nite Cap
Al Johnson and Baby Dolls perform at the Ponderosa Stomp in New Orleans on September 17, 2011.
Treme-LafitteThe Green Room
Central CitySandpiper Lounge
Neighborhood Superstars: Cash Money Records Tour
GentillyPeaches Records
Upper 9th WardClub Rumors / Club Discovery
GentillyThe Big Easy
New Orleans EastClub Whispers
Central Business DistrictCash Money Records Office
HollygroveOdyssey Records
Central CitySoulja Slim mural / Big Man Lounge
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
Upper 9th WardClub Desire
TremeCandlelight Lounge/Grease Lounge
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
TremeCraig Elementary School
7th WardHunter's Field
TremeBell Junior High School
TremeTreme Community Center
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
TremeMunicipal Auditorium
TremePlace Congo: Armstrong Park Tour
Dr. John mural in 2019.
Walk on Guilded Splinters: Dr. John Tour
Mural of Buddy Bolden and band painted in 2018 by Brandan "BMike" Odums seen here in 2019.
Did You Saw What I Heard?: Music Murals Tour
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
Alex Chilton fronting a Big Star reunion show in London in 2009.
TremeAlex Chilton's Apartment
7th WardDanny and Blue Lu Barker's House
The great Eddie Bo (1930-2009) and Al Scramuzza, owner of Scram Records, in the corner of Cosimo's studio on Camp Street in July 1968.
GentillySeafood City
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
Fats Domino's house in the Lower Ninth Ward. Domino occupied a compound of sorts, with buildings on adjacent lots at the corner of Caffin Avenue and Marais Street.
Lower 9th WardFats Domino's House
Enslaved people dancing in Congo Square
TremeCongo Square
Allen Toussaint outside Sea-Saint Recording Studio
GentillySea-Saint Studio
Central CityMagnolia (C.J. Peete) Public Housing Development
UptownTipitina's
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
The New Orleans Jazz Museum at the old U.S. Mint.
French QuarterNew Orleans Jazz Museum at the Old U.S. Mint
7th WardErnie K-Doe's Mother-in-Law Lounge
Al Hirt postcard circa 1965.
French QuarterAl Hirt's Club
Baby Dolls posing in New Orleans 1942
TremeBackstreet Cultural Museum
Monk Boudreaux
Central CityH&R Bar
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
TremeWWOZ Treehouse Studio
The sign that once hung on Joe's Cozy Corner has migrated into the Bywater, where it adorned a front yard in 2012.
TremeJoe's Cozy Corner
Jazz Funeral led by the Tambourine & Fan Club, circa 1977.
TremeCharbonnet-Labat-Glapion Funeral Home
Mid-CityHolt Cemetery
Guitar Lightnin' Lee at the 9th Annual Ponderosa Stomp Festival held at the House of Blues in New Orleans on September 25, 2010.
Central CityNewton's/Guitar Joe's House of Blues/Portside Lounge
West End Hotel with chairs for the bandstand set up to the left.
LakeviewWest End
HollygroveGhost Town
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
The John Robichaux Orchestra.
7th WardFrancs Amis Hall
French QuarterSho Bar
Central CityA.L. Davis Park (aka Shakespeare Park)
Jesuit alumnus Harry Connick, Jr. on stage with one of his piano teachers, the virtuoso James Booker.
Mid-CityJesuit High School
Jules Cahn black and white photo of tuba fats
TremeAnthony "Tuba Fats" Lacen's House
Al Taylor in the Rosemont Recording Studio with Vernard Johnson.
TremeRosemont Records
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
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