A Saturday (May 25) jazz funeral ... the New Orleans tradition for the first time, like Zeke Davis, making his first visit to the city and selected from the crowd to lead the procession.

More than 100 people gathered in New Orleans on Monday to march in a jazz funeral procession to pay tribute to the 32 people who died 40 years ago in the horrific fire at the Upstairs Lounge , on ...

food and fanfare of the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival is a sight some may find surprising: a funeral procession. Fest-goers hold up cameras and iPhones as a brass band leads a procession ...

NEW ORLEANS — It would not be fair to say the music ever totally evacuated from this city of jazz. But on Sunday, it began its grand re-entrance, with the first jazz funeral procession to take ...

Every part of a ritual funeral procession in New Orleans ... For Black New Orleans, these funeral second lines, sometimes called jazz funerals by observers, have existed for generations.

New Orleans Jazz Funeral Procession 100+ horns (and woodwinds, drums and…) to march in a procession through the streets of NYC on Sunday, September 11, gathering at 3pm South side of Washington Square ...

Jason Berry’s affection for New Orleans’ solemn funeral dirges and joyful second-line processions has seldom ... to capture New Orleans through the jazz funeral. “But sometimes I didn ...

NEW ORLEANS — The life of legendary blues musician, Walter "Wolfman" Washington was celebrated Wednesday with a jazz funeral and procession. He died of cancer December 22 at 79 years old.

In a normal year, Marsalis’s passing would have drawn thousands of people from every corner of New Orleans for a jazz funeral, featuring a brass band, and a second line procession. But as the ...

But the jazz funeral that ... Following New Orleans’ tradition of parading for the dead, the event began with a somber dirge before leaping into a more upbeat procession.