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Mrs. Al Sanford, former well-known resident, will arrive in Flagstaff tonight from her home in Chandler to spend a two-week ...
New York City, January 1928. Peak Jazz Age. Banjos were hot, bootlegger Buicks idled outside, and inside a newly opened swank ...
We won’t fault you for sheltering from the North Texas heat under the breeze of your ceiling fan, but staying cooped up at home is no way to spend the summer. We drummed up seven cool reasons to get ...
It’s impossible to overstate Preservation Hall Jazz Band’s dedication to the alchemy of their lineage—but the long-running group does much more than sustain the buoyant brass sound that ...
Inside a theatre just off of Bourbon Street, a jazz band grooves for an audience of excited second graders on a field trip. As the music fills the decades-old Preservation Hall, the kids laugh ...
Through a $25 million investment in the Preservation Hall Foundation's newest venue, young New Orleanians will have more opportunities to engage with jazz, an integral part of the city's culture.
The band was the result of founder Allan Jaffee ‘s effort to keep New Orleans jazz alive in a French Quarter building called Preservation Hall.
Preservation Hall Jazz Band, which balances the music of the past and present, brings its legendary sound and repertoire to The Egg on March 8 ...
Preservation Hall Jazz Band performed at the Vilar Performing Arts Center when it first opened in 1998, so it’s fitting that the band, which celebrates its 60th anniversary, is also playing during ...
The Preservation Hall Foundation created a jazz curriculum to bring the sounds and music theory of New Orleans jazz into the classroom.
In 1961, Pottsville native Allan Jaffe established Preservation Hall in the city’s French Quarter, and played Sousaphone in the Preservation Hall Jazz Band.
The Preservation Hall Jazz Band was an ambassador of New Orleans jazz, introducing it to audiences around the world. For his profound contribution to the nation's musical heritage, the ...