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“The Axeman Cometh”: This Month in 1919, New Orleans Residents Play Jazz All Night to Placate a Serial Killer
New Orleans was terrorized by a jazz-loving serial killer called the Axeman who demanded citizens play jazz music for him.
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Musician Danny Barker was born in a Quarter tenement, about the same time trad jazz was emerging
Born in 1909, around the same time that trad jazz was emerging in New Orleans, Barker lived with his parents, Moses Barker ...
New Orleans Jazz Museum's Performance Center re-opens Wednesday
The grand "re-opening" of The New Orleans Jazz Museum's Performance Center is Wednesday, March 12, and the public is invited ...
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Is there music in New Orleans the week after Mardi Gras? Yes.
As New Orleans catches its collective breath after Mardi Gras, the upcoming week will be relatively quiet. Case in point: ...
OffBeat Magazine13d
New Orleans Jazz Museum Unveils State-of-the-Art Performance Center
New Orleans Jazz Museum will have a ribbon cutting ceremony as it unveils a state-of-the-art new performance center.
Red Cat Jazz Café: A Quarter Century of Keeping the Groove Alive in Houston
Red Cat is roaring back to life, this time, in a venue Sam had been eyeing for years—Bayou Place—in the heart of Downtown ...
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Combined Minds: The girlies talk jazz in Jax
When you think of jazz hubs in the South, New Orleans is probably the first place that comes to mind, right? But believe it or not, Jacksonville was actually one of the first major jazz hubs in the ...