The New Orleans style Funeral Parade kicked off the week with middle and high schoolers playing classic Mardi Gras tunes. The ...

Perhaps Walt Whitman observed a black brass band funeral during his stay in New Orleans in 1847. These lines from "Song of Myself" capture--though perhaps by coincidence--the spirit of a jazz ...

But Hot 8 from New Orleans pull it off. They’re authentic purveyors of ... performing for the “second line” of funeral processions. Like the wedding and funeral bands of eastern Europe, the line-up ...