Blurring genre boundaries, multi-instrumentalist Jon Batiste blends jazz, classical, R&B and pop with his own artistic ...

Learn about the legendary jazz innovators who revolutionized music with their genius, from early to modern masters who shaped ...

Three-time Tony Award-winner Charles Strouse, Broadway's industrious, master melody-maker who composed the music for such ...

Marsalis, himself a jazz trumpet icon, Irvine with a jazz ensemble and pianist Cecile Licad to play live as a silent film ...

The revelation that Pope Leo XIV has Louisiana Creole roots shines a light on a community of Catholics that has shaped New ...

Al Scramuzza, who first popularized eating crawfish back in the early 1950s, died at his home in Metairie on Sunday after a brief illness. He was 97.

Wynton Marsalis shares his thoughts on the transcendent genius of Louis Armstrong, how New Orleans made jazz possible, silent films and more.

Editor's note: Billy Horschel withdrew from the Zurich Classic of New Orleans on Wednesday afternoon. Tom Hoge will now partner with first alternate Kevin Chappell. Masters Tournament winner Rory ...

The pope's Creole roots in New Orleans are a source of pride among the city's Black Catholics. But the revelation also ...

CHICAGO -- Robert Francis Prevost, the Chicago-born man who became Pope Leo XIV on Thursday, has Black family roots in New ...

Census data from 1900 shows Pope Leo XIV's grandparents lived on North Prieur Street where the Claiborne Overpass is now.

His ancestry, traced to a historic enclave of Afro-Caribbean culture, links Leo XIV to the rich and sometimes overlooked ...