Decades before Jackie Robinson integrated Major League Baseball, these Black musicians were fighting discrimination and ...

The American musical art form jazz ... both black and white audiences. Recordings and radio broadcasts allow the music to reach beyond nightclubs, and the arrival of virtuosos such as New Orleans ...

Some artists and bands performed traditional Black Masking Indian music, which is driven by West African percussive rhythms, ...

While many black and Creole jazz musicians did perform in Storyville ... The fact that during segregation so many white musicians from New Orleans like Jimmy Durante, Papa Celestine, and Pete ...

But throughout the 2025 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival ... During segregation, Black entertainers and patrons could eat, drink, spend the night and see a show that might include a ...

skies of blue and clouds of white. The bright blessed days, the dark secrets night and I said to myself what a wonderful world. New Orleans does pipe music into your heart. After all, jazz was ...