Al HIrt, second from right, shows off a new LP album, 'Bourbon Street,' produced in 1970 for the Louisiana Tourist Development Commission. With Hirt are, from left, Leonard L. Burns, chairman of ...

The late trumpeter Al Hirt, who had his own club on Bourbon Street for more than two decades, will be inducted posthumously into the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame this weekend. Hirt will be ...

“Nobody,” says a fellow Bourbon Street trumpeter, “ever outblew Al.” Even allowing for civic partisanship, the boast is not unreasonable. New Orleans Trumpeter Al (“The Monster”) Hirt ...

NEW ORLEANS, La. (WVUE) - Internationally known musician Ronnie Kole has passed away. He was 89. Kole was born in Chicago but late made his home in the South. A protege of Al Hirt, Kole began his ...

Paul Cacia was Al Hirt's lead trumpet player and contracted the brass section for what Al Hirt called his dream band, formed in the fall of 1979. At the time of receiving the phone call to join Al ...

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