Just days after Donald Trump won the presidential election, more than 200 people gathered in drizzling rain for “A Jazz Funeral for Democracy.” Following New Orleans’ tradition of parading ...

Soul Brass Band at the Jazz Funeral for Democracy Second Line Sunday, Nov. 10. For more than 40 years, Gambit has covered New Orleans, for New Orleans. We’ve stood up to city hall with you ...

Perhaps Walt Whitman observed a black brass band funeral during his stay in New Orleans in 1847. These lines from "Song of Myself" capture--though perhaps by coincidence--the spirit of a jazz ...

The New Orleans jazz and rhythm & blues community lost a beloved bassist and vocalist on Thursday. According to WWL Louisiana media partner NOLA.com, George French died at age 81 due to ...

A New Orleans-style funeral has been held for a respected jazz musician "taken much too soon". Hundreds of people joined a marching band and a colourful umbrella parade to celebrate the life of ...

An American art form now more than a century old, jazz emerged from the streets of New Orleans. The city has produced some of the world's great jazz musicians, none more celebrated than Louis ...