Outside, on Governor Nicholls Street, there was a salute to Satchmo with more brass bands tuning up their chops, while ...

As the commercials are about to run on the Dubai One TV channel, an all too familiar melody plays out, signaling a transfer to the next program or ...

The Scranton Jazz Festival kicked off Friday. Organizers say what started as a one day festival with a few hundred people ...

BC: The Carthaginian army lead by Hannibal defeats numerically superior Roman army at the Battle of Cannae during the Second ...

Born into a well-known conjunto family in San Antonio on March 11, 1939, Leonardo “Flaco” Jiménez began playing conjunto ...

Over the course of his seven-decade career, Jiménez received numerous awards and honors, including a Lifetime Achievement ...

Nearly 40 bands—including Charmaine Neville, Cyril Neville, and Kermit Ruffins—will perform in honor of Louis Armstrong’s ...

Over a career that spanned 70 years, Jimenez' playing came to define the Tex-Mex music and carried the tradition-drenched ...

What did a Jewish family in New Orleans and jazz great Louis Armstrong have in common? The Karnofsky Tailor Shop.

After a very rainy summer in the capital, August arrives in Mexico City with a mélange of world-class documentary photography ...

It may be hot outside, but according to Mary Beth Romig of New Orleans & Company, the city will be the coolest place to be ...

The book details the first three decades in Louis Armstrong's life and career, from his New Orleans beginnings to his first ...