The Times-Picayune is marking the tricentennial of New Orleans with its ongoing 300 for 300 project, running through 2018 and highlighting the moments and people that connect and inspire us. Today, ...

Despite his international fame as a symbol of New Orleans music and bonhomie–or perhaps because of it–Al Hirt rarely received serious recognition as a trumpeter. But the classically trained virtuoso, ...

Al Hirt, 76, Dixieland jazz trumpeter who was a symbol of the exuberant laissez-faire way of life of New Orleans; one of the nation’s most recognizable performers in the 1960s, he recorded 55 albums ...

Al Hirt, 76, the portly Dixieland jazz trumpeter who was a symbol of the exuberant laissez-faire way of life of New Orleans, died yesterday at his New Orleans home. Mr. Hirt had been hospitalized ...