Longtime New Orleans-area musician, band leader, educator and military veteran Paul Batiste has died at age 74, his family ...

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 ...

Paul A. Batiste, a beloved New Orleans musician, educator, and bandleader who helped shape the city’s rich musical legacy, ...

Caleb Wilson died at the age of 20 in February after allegedly participating in an unsanctioned hazing ritual while pledging ...

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 ...