New Orleans brass bands have come to shape the city’s heartbeat, weaving culture, resilience, and music into every street and celebration.

This article is a Cover Story selection, a weekly feature highlighting the top picks from the editors of America Media. When you’re raised in a town where grown-ups wear costumes and toss beads from ...

It was a rare, perhaps unprecedented sight in the City of Saratoga Springs: A New Orleans-style jazz funeral procession ...

The jazz funeral dates to the late 1800s and the birth of jazz itself. Like Chase’s Creole cuisine, the ritual has survived by embracing both tradition and change. How New Orleans Celebrates Its Dead ...