When singer and trumpeter Anne Linders moved from St. Louis to Boston in 2020, she wanted to put together a new version of her lively traditional jazz band Annie and the Fur Trappers. That proved to ...

Annie and the Fur Trappers headline the Bay State Hot Jazz Festival in Medford this weekend. Their front woman spoke to GBH Music about the magic of ‘20s jazz, and what to expect at the free festival.

For years, purist fans of traditional New Orleans jazz have worried their favorite music is a dying art form. Oh, sure, something like trad jazz, loud and frenetic with a side helping of street funk, ...

The musicians seated closest to him nodded their acquiescence, but a few others were too busy chatting between numbers to have heard, and had to be shushed by their fellows. As Mazzy began quietly ...

Annie Linders fell in love with traditional jazz while riding a boat down the Mississippi River. There are other ways, other places to fall in love with traditional jazz, but none of them are nearly ...

This is the final story in The Guardians, a 6-part series highlighting those dedicated to saving and passing down New Orleans' unique heritage. Posing for a photographer outside Frenchmen Street’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Feb. 13—For Mardi Gras-style, traditional jazz music, look no further than Preservation Hall Jazz Band as they make their way to ...

Sandra Jaffe, the co-founder of Preservation Hall, a deliberately down-at-the-heels French Quarter mecca for fans of traditional jazz played by its veteran practitioners, died Monday in New Orleans, a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When the Preservation Hall Jazz Band takes the stage at the Palm Springs International Jazz Festival, the iconic New Orleans ...

For Mardi Gras-style, traditional jazz music, look no further than Preservation Hall Jazz Band as they make their way to KiMo Theatre on Friday, Feb. 21. Hailing from the heart of New Orleans, ...