October is National Archives Month, and the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation Archive is marking the occasion with history enthusiasts.

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - In traditional fashion, hundreds of people packed the courtyard Monday (Sept. 15) at the New Orleans Jazz Museum while officials from the Mexican consulate led “El Grito,” the ...

In 1919, a jazz-loving killer known as the "Axeman" terrorized New Orleans P. L. Sperr/Hulton Archive/Getty The letter-writer called themselves a devil. The city called them the Axeman. And for one ...

With the sun setting on Tuesday, Sept. 16, at 7 p.m. a New Orleans style jazz concert, free and open to all, will sound its first notes. The Storyville Redeemers, a six-piece Twin Cities professional ...

It would be difficult to find a better embodiment of the American dream than Louis Armstrong, who was born in 1901 to a single mother in the rough, poverty-stricken Back O’ Town neighborhood near what ...

The New Orleans Jazz & Blues Market is reopening Oct. 1 with a slate of performers and an interior overhaul aimed at making the venue one of the nation’s premier listening rooms. The nonprofit ...

NEW ORLEANS — Lillian Boutté, beloved jazz vocalist and tireless supporter of the New Orleans Musicians’ Clinic, has died after a lengthy illness at the age of 75. Her family confirmed to WWL-TV that ...