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Tightrope walker Will Sodo reaches new heights above the Fairgrounds in 1986.
Photo by Harold Baquet, courtesy of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage
Archive.
In honor of Jazz Fest's 50th anniversary in 2019, we're featuring a Jazz Fest
photo of the day with our audience. K...
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1 Superbad Superslick John Wagner Coalition 03:03
2 All That You Have Is Your Soul Tracy Chapman 05:16 Crossroads
3 01 - Be What You Are Staple Singers 04:59 Be What You Are
4 The Same Old Song Delroy Wilson 03:02 Better Must Come: The Anthology
5 Midnight Rider Charlie Whiteh...
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Dr. John on the Acura Stage on April 24, 2005. Photo by Leon Morris.
In honor of Jazz Fest's 50th anniversary in 2019, we're featuring a Jazz Fest
photo of the day with our audience. Keep your eyes here, and at our Jazz
Fest 50 page, all year long to see them, plus more c...
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New Orleans trumpeter Connie Jones has passed away at the age of 84.
Connie is a New Orleans native who began his musical career at the age of
five on piano. He first picked up a bugle while in military school and began
playing trumpet when he was ten years old. After high...
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Liz Weiner and Brian Ferdman dance during Preservation Hall Jazz Band's set
in Economy Hall tent on May 4, 2013. Photo by Ryan Hodgson-Rigsbee.
In honor of Jazz Fest's 50th anniversary in 2019, we're featuring a Jazz Fest
photo of the day with our audience. Keep your eyes...
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WWOZ's Action Jackson sits down with Lois Andrews Nelson, queen of
krewedelusion! In addition to Queen, she is a Baby Doll, member of the Money
Wasters Social & Pleasure Club, and mother of the famed Troy "Trombone
Shorty" Andrews, James Andrews, and Buster Nelson. Get in t...
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Jazz Fest goers plotting their way around the Fairgrounds in 1987. Photo by
Burt Steel, courtesy of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Archive.
In honor of Jazz Fest's 50th anniversary in 2019, we're featuring a Jazz Fest
photo of the day with our audience. Keep your eyes h...
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The first year Lena Prima played at Jazz Fest was the same year the festival
honored her father, Louis Prima, for what would've been his 100th birthday.
Listen in to what that experience was like for Lena as she launched her
first jazz album, plus what it was like for her t...
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