New Orleans jazz musician Trombone Shorty created an inspiring children's picture book based on his own life that documents his musical journey and his determination to make his dreams come true as a ...

Little Kids Rock, the national nonprofit focused on restoring, expanding and innovating music education in schools across the U.S., announced Tuesday (July 17) that international recording artist… By ...

Angry. Sneaky. Really, really happy. Exciting. Those are some of the sounds of the trombone that musician Ross Holcombe taught Philbrick School students last Thursday. As Holcombe blew his instrument ...

John McCusker wrote the first comprehensive biography of Edward 'Kid' Ory –- "Creole Trombone," published Oct. 2 by the University of Mississippi Press -- because he does not like unanswered questions ...

For more than a decade, the Neville Brothers and the Radiators closed the main stages on the final Sunday of the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival presented by Shell. But the Radiators closed the ...

Creole Trombone: Kid Ory and the Early Years of Jazz boosts the reputation of Edward “Kid” Ory — a trombonist, bandleader, recording artist and composer born on the Woodland Plantation in LaPlace on ...

It’s starting next week, even if we have Frost Warnings. Those of us who graduated from high school a thousand years ago have seen some changes in school and vacation that just aren’t as nice as they ...