Jean Lafitte National Historical Park - Jazz Band at French Market, Ne...
"Musicians Performing at Folklife Festival" Notes: Shows jazz band in at Dutch Alley stage in the French Market of New Orleans in front of a banner reading "Jean Lafitte National Historical Park". Band consi... More
Musicians on stage - New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park 1989
Musicians on stage - New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park, French Market, 1989
All-Star-Jazz-Band-1944
Promotional photograph of the All Star Jazz Group assembled for the CBS Radio program, The Orson Welles AlmanacPhotograph was taken prior to the band's first performance on the CBS Pacific network series March... More
Bourbon Street New Orleans late 1960s - Tulane Jambalaya 1968 - The Re...
Bourbon Street New Orleans late 1960. Ragtime type band at "The Red Garter", 640 Bourbon Street. .
Liberty Bonds - Public Gatherings - Louisiana - War activities in New ...
4th Liberty Loan Campaign, World War I homefront, New Orleans October 1918. Crop showing jazz band on stage. Appears to include Louis Armstrong, cornet, Lorenzo Staultz, string bass, unidentified clarinet.
Liberty Bonds - Public Gatherings - Louisiana - War activities in New ...
4th Liberty Loan Campaign, World War I homefront, New Orleans October 1918. Note jazz band on stand.
Snap Pep Jazz Abbie Brunies Orch at Metairie Inn 1926
January 1926 ad for Abbie Brunies Orchestra (formerly the Halfway House Orchestra) performing at Metarie Inn, suburb of New Orleans.
Felix Park Will Open Easter Sun - New Orleans
Felix Park Band, 1915 or 1916. Band posing in front of building with sign "Felix Park Will Open Easter Sun". This is a pic on display at Basin Street Station that I took a snapshot of years ago; I haven't bee... More
Tom Andersons Cafe Cartoon 1922
Cartoon published in the New Orleans Item, 2 February 1922, caricaturing 3 African-American musicians playing at Tom Anderson's Cafe on Rampart Street. They are depicted with the racist "darkey" stereotype c... More
Original Crescent City Jazzers at Junius Hart Store New Orleans 1924
Original Crescent City Jazzers at Junius Hart Store (123 Carondelet Street) New Orleans, 1924, while Okeh Records was making recordings there. The musician standing just left of the photograph horn identified... More
New Orleand Jazz Funeral with Tuba
Tuba player in New Orleans jazz processional.
Micheal White's New Orleans Jazz Ensemble performs at the Niagara Cent...
Micheal White's New Orleans Jazz Ensemble performs at the Niagara Centennial, 2006 Notes: Harpers Ferry National Historical Park, the Jefferson County Branch NAACP, and the Harpers Ferry Historical Associatio... More
Sharkey Bandstand 1950 Kubrick Louisiana
Sharkey Bonano & band on stage in New Orleans, 1950. Published caption: SHARKEY BONANO. The man at the mike plays the cleanest Dixieland trumpet style in New Orleans. Others pictured: Santo Pecora, trombone; ... More
Talbert George Lewis Band 1950 Kubrick Louisiana
George Lewis Ragtime Jazz Band, New Orleans, 1950. Lewis is on clarinet at left; Elmer Talbert on trumpet at front center. In background can be seen Alcide "Slow Drag" Pavegeau, string bass; Lawrence Marrero, banjo.
Jas Bands Originated In New Orleans 1916
Article from the New Orleans "Item" newspaper, 12 November, 1916. Regarding claims of "jas" (jazz) music's new popularity in Chicago, notes that local musicians and theater people say it originated in New Orle... More
Friars Inn featuring Friars Society Orchestra - Chicago Tribune, Febru...
Ad for the Friars Inn featuring Friars Society Orchestra, the "orchestra" better remembered as the New Orleans Rhythm Kings - Chicago Tribune, February 4, 1923
Moonlight Cruises Steamer Sidney 1920 (cropped)
August 1920 advertisment for "Moonlight Cruises De Luxe" on the Steamer Sidney at New Orleans. Artwork shows the riverboat, an African-American band, and a white couple dancing. Ad lists times and prices, and... More
Moonlight Cruises Steamer Sidney 1920
August 1920 advertisment for "Moonlight Cruises De Luxe" on the Steamer Sidney at New Orleans. Artwork shows the riverboat, an African-American band, and a white couple dancing. Ad lists times and prices, and... More