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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.