Barry Cowsill (September 14, 1954 – August 29, 2005) was…

Traditional jazz clarinetist, saxophonist and trumpeter from New Orleans, Louisiana.…

Shante Scott Franklin (born April 4, 1981), better known by…

Matt Montgomery (born 16 November 1975) also known as Piggy…

Lawrence Cennett, better known by his stage name Baby Boy…

James, better known as Jimmie, Davis served two nonconsecutive terms…

Born in New Orleans, self-taught bassist Edward J. Dawson (1884-1972)…

Born and raised in New Orleans, Edmond Dédé was a…

Jazz cornetist and bandleader Johnny DeDroit (1892-1986) led a popular…

Harold “Duke” Dejan was a New Orleans jazz alto saxophonist…

Born April 3, 1933, Los Angeles, California

Played with: Percy…

The Dirty Dozen Brass Band is a New Orleans brass…

Johnny Dodds (April 12, 1892 – August 8, 1940) was…

Warren “Baby” Dodds Interview (5/31/1958): Jazz drummer Warren “Baby” Dodds…

New Orleans Bounce rapper who is also a member of…

Anatie “Natty” Dominique (1894-1982) was an Afro-Italian trumpeter from New…

If Mount Rushmore ever adds on a “Founding Fathers of…

Vocalist Lee Dorsey recorded some of the biggest rhythm and…

Thomas Andrew Dorsey (July 1, 1899 – January 23, 1993)…

Tom Melville Drummond (born June 30, 1969 Shreveport, Louisiana) is…

Andrew Jordan, better known as Skull Duggery is an American…

Louis Dumaine was a member of the Tuxedo Brass Band…

Born in Lafayette, LA, Stanley Dural began his musical career…

Frankie Dusen (1878 – 1936) was an early New Orleans…

Greg Duvernay, also known as “MC Gregory D,” along with…

Guitarist Snooks Eaglin was one of New Orleans’ most beloved…

Lars Ivar Edegran (born 1944) is a Dixieland jazz musician…

Timothy Elpadaro Thedford (born September 19, 1976), better known by…

Violinist and bandleader Charles Anthony Elgar (1879-1973) was born in…

Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24,…

David Howell Evans, better known by his stage name The…

Robert Alan “Bob” Ezrin, co-founder of Music Rising, an initiative…

Guitarist and singer Cléoma Breaux Falcon (1905 – 1941) is…

The music of African American Creole fiddler Canray Fontenot cuts…

Frankie Ford (born August 4, 1939) is an American rock…

Abbey “Chinee Bébé” Foster (1902-1962) was a self-taught jazz drummer…

The older brother of Pops Foster, violinist, banjoist, and guitarist…

Pete Fountain is a clarinetist and bandleader from New Orleans,…

Born in 1933, and still vibrantly active at this writing,…

Born in New Orleans, Josiah “Cie” Frazier (1904-1985) was a…

Robert “Bob” French (c. 1938 – November 12, 2012) was…

George French’s musical profile is usually defined by whoever happens…

Mannie Fresh is a Grammy-nominated DJ, producer and rapper from…

Charlie Gabriel/Clarinet and Vocals: The musical heritage of Charlie Gabriel…

The New Orleans band Galactic started out in 1994 as…

Self-taught Afro-French pianist and banjoist Louis Gallaud (1897-1985) was born…

Alfred J. Gallodoro, was an American jazz clarinetist and saxophonist,…

The Ghetto Twiinz is an American hip hop duo from…

George Girard (October 7, 1930 – January 18, 1957) was…

Victor Goines (born 1961 in New Orleans, Louisiana) is a…

Drummer Christopher “Black Happy” Goldston (1894-1968) began by “beating on…

Born in Algiers, Louisiana, clarinetist and saxophonist Israel Gorman (1895-1965)…

Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829 – 1869) was the first American…

A native of Kenner Rouge, Henry Gray is a a…

Luther Gray is founding director of Percussion Incorporated and Bamboula…

Kevin Griffin (born October 1, 1968) is an American guitarist,…

Banjoist and vocalist “Creole” George Guesnon (1907-1968) grew up in…

The Hackberry Ramblers performed a multi-genre blend that was primarily…

Drummer Minor “Ram” Hall (1897-1959) was born in Sellers, Louisiana,…

Pianist and banjoist Charlie Joseph Hamilton (1904-1989) was born in…

Alto saxophonist “Captain” John Handy (1900-1971) was born to a…

Donald Harrison, Jr. (born June 23, 1960) is an American…

Drummer, cornetist, and mellophonist Arthur Frank “Monk” Hazel (1903-1968) was…

Know as “Frogman” for his vocal impersonation of said amphibians,…

Oscar “Chicken” Henry (1888-1984) was a jazz trombonist who began…

New Orleans native Al Hirt began his career as a…

Moses George Hogan (March 13, 1957 – February 11, 2003)…

The Hot Boys (often styled as Hot Boy$) is an…

The Hot 8 Brass Band is a New Orleans based…

Trumpeter, drummer, and bandleader Avery “Kid” Howard (1908-1966) began as…

An American born in New Orleans, Howard played music from…

Pianist Armand Hug (1910-1977) began his career accompanying silent films…

The trombonist Earl Humphrey (1902-1971) studied with his grandfather James…

Born in New Orleans, the clarinetist Willie J. Humphrey (1900-1994)…

Born in New Orleans, the clarinetist Willie J. Humphrey (1900-1994)…

Born in Parks, Louisiana, cornetist Hypolite Charles (1891-1984) began with…

Drummer Henry “Pickle” Jackson (1909-1972) was born in New Orleans,…

Mahalia Jackson (October 26, 1911 – January 27, 1972) is…

Trombonist Preston Jackson (1902-1983) was born in New Orleans as…

Allan Phillip Jaffe was an American jazz tubist and the…

The son of the co-founders of Preservation Hall, Allan and…

Joe James was a jazz pianist. You can hear him…

Thomas Jefferson was born on June 20, 1920 in Chicago,…

Drummer Albert Jiles Jr. (1905-1964) was born in Thibodaux, Louisiana,…

Alto, soprano, and tenor saxophonist Eddie “Big Head” Johnson (1903-1968)…