Jazz
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15 Stylish Jazz Musicians to Celebrate International Jazz Day
It’s International Jazz Day! From the famous New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival to a concert series held in Namibia, Africa this weekend, the whole world is celebrating decades of jazz history, and the iconic performers who helped shape it. Jazz has its roots in African American communities in New Orleans, where African and European musical traditions merged to create a wholly American art form. In the 20th century, particularly during the 1940s bebop movement, jazz as we now know it began to
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Maximize Your Experience: a Primer for Jazz Fest's Final Weekend
Allow me to let you in on a little secret: there’s more to see and take in at Jazz Fest (a.k.a. the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival) than you could ever imagine, both on the festival grounds and in the areas surrounding it. Unless you’ve been, you might not know that Jazz Fest is held at a horse racing track (The Fairgrounds), surrounded almost entirely by a residential area known as the Mid-City neighborhood of New Orleans.
