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The highly-anticipated lineup is set for the inaugural 2022 New Orleans Book Festival at Tulane University.

Ted Koppel interviews Doreen Ketchens and Ben Jaffe about New Orleans music for a special segment on CBS Sunday Morning.

In good times and bad, New Orleans musicians have been schooled in a unique culture, one severely hit by the pandemic, when the Big Easy's streets were unnaturally quiet and empty, and players moved online. But the music, and the joy, persists.

Amazon has signed a deal with Exactly Right Media, the company behind My Favorite Murder, to exclusively window content to Amazon Music and Wondery+. It will also sell the ads for current and future programming.

Charlie Gabriel of Preservation Hall Jazz Band will debut his first album via Sub Pop, the famous label that initially signed Nirvana.

In 1961, Sandra and Allan Jaffe stopped in New Orleans on their way home to Philadelphia from an extended honeymoon in Mexico. They heard music playing all around them in the French Quarter and stepped into an art gallery on St. Peter Street where a combo was playing traditional jazz.

Jaffe, who ran the club for decades with her husband Allan, credited with integrating the vaunted venue before segregation ended and helping preserve jazz in the city

With her husband, she opened a club in New Orleans in 1961 to showcase traditional jazz. Defying changes in musical fashion, it has been open ever since.

NEW ORLEANS – Sandra Jaffe, who co-founded Preservation Hall in New Orleans, introducing countless people to jazz through the intimate French Qu ...

Preservation Hall was the first fully integrated music venue in the South, according to an obituary written by her son, Ben Jaffe.