Sidney Bechet was one of the first jazz virtuosos, dominating nearly every recording session in which he took part. Though his Blue Note and RCA Victor recordings are better known due to frequent ...

Three decades before Norman Mailer in 1957 drew attention to the social phenomenon of the "white negro," Mezz Mezzrow claimed to be just that. To use his own terminology, he was "a voluntary negro." ...

At Paris’ Olympia music hall, vaudeville was in full flower. There were acrobats, unicyclists, a juggler, Mexican guitarists. But the attraction that filled the 2,000-seat house last week was strictly ...

The gig by the clarinetist Evan Christopher on Monday night took place in a theater, but the language of the show was house party. It was sponsored by the Sidney Bechet Society, which since 1997 has ...

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To all you wonderful Super Bowl visitors, a word to the wise: If you leave this city with memories only of football and booze, without a fuller appreciation of the unique culture of New Orleans, you ...

Sidney Bechet was the original saxophone colossus. The New Orleans pioneer displayed such a larger-than-life presence on soprano saxophone and clarinet at such an early juncture in jazz history that ...