In 1938, Jelly Roll Morton was near destitute. Ten years earlier, the New Orleans-born Creole pianist had been a major star, a bandleader and composer famous as one of the formative figures of the ...
Alex Brandon / The Times-Picayune ArchivePonderosa Stomp founder Ira "Dr. Ike" Padnos, foreground is moving the festival to fall 2010. For eight years, the Ponderosa Stomp helped fill the lull between ...
Be it resolved: South Louisiana is the social dance capital of America, the natural home to anyone who swings, bounces, moves to a two-step beat or falls in with a second-line parade. Before debate ...