New Orleans is a place filled to the brim with music. It makes it hard to imagine with so much of it visible on the streets, the sheer amount of unheard music that this city must contain. The amount ...

Saxophonist, clarinetist and singer Charlie Gabriel is the elder statesman of Preservation Hall and New Orleans jazz in general. On the cusp of his 91st birthday, he still performs at the hall and ...

As an afternoon thunderstorm stalks the French Quarter, Charlie Gabriel sits in a crypt-like chamber off Preservation Hall’s private courtyard, focused on his rapidly diminishing prospects. Across the ...

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO)- Still playing as smoothly as can be, 89-year-old Charlie Gabriel can still cook, and recalls his earliest memories of growing up in our city and learning to play a horn. Gabriel ...

Longtime Detroit jazz musician Charlie Gabriel is back home where it all began — in the Crescent City. Credit: Courtesy of Preservation Hall Tucked away in the middle of the French Quarter, way down ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The senior member of New Orleans’ Preservation Hall Jazz Band has created what's described as his first album as a band leader, and it’s titled for his age — 89. Charlie Gabriel's ...

Branden Lewis met 89-year-old Charlie Gabriel six years ago after joining the Preservation Hall Jazz Band. He soon learned about Charlie’s book of original music that was never recorded and finally, ...

Reposted with correction from last week: Local jazz fans may have noticed that Charlie Gabriel hasn’t been seen much on the local scene these last couple of years. There’s a reason: Charlie, whose ...

Duos galore in this set and an inter-generational array of artists, ranging from young up-and-comers in their early 20s to revered octogenarians delving into their vaults... or making their ...

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The senior member of New Orleans’ Preservation Hall Jazz Band has created what’s described as his first album as a band leader, and it’s titled for his age — 89. “I’ve been playing since I was 11 ...