Tag: new orleans
New Orleans music is, and is not, jazz – an Interview with Clarinetist Evan Christopher
January 6, 2023
“I might be one of the only people that disagrees that jazz was created in New Orleans,” says Evan Christopher recently, as he prepares to share his Grammy-winning New Orleans jazz style at the JAZZ ROOM this month.
Jazz History is America’s History
September 30, 2022
Most people start jazz’s timeline in 1917 with the Original Dixieland Jazz Band’s recording of “Livery Stable Blues,” considered to be the first jazz recording. From that point on, jazz is present in every major moment of American history
Naming Latin Jazz (Hispanic Heritage Month 2022, Part 2)
September 24, 2022
Jazz has been entwined with Latin music since its very beginning—in fact, jazz scholar Christopher Washburne argues that the birth of jazz happened synchronously with the birth of Latin jazz.