Jazz at Preservation Hall

Preservation Hall is definitely New Orleans’ leading house for traditional Dixieland jazz, maintaining its high-caliber house music group and gaining numerous special occasions. In July 1962, Atlantic Information co-founder Nesuhi Ertegun — a longtime lover of classic-style jazz — journeyed to New Orleans for a particular week of concerts documenting the cream from the city’s current Dixieland players; the outcomes were documented and released over some four distinct LPs dubbed Jazz at Preservation Hall. The 1st presented the Eureka Brass Music group; the next was divided between organizations led by trombonist Jim Robinson as well as the husband-and-wife group of pianist Billie Pierce and trumpeter De De Pierce; the 3rd was divided between drummer Paul Barbarin and trumpeter Punch Miller; as well as the 4th showcased clarinetist George Lewis. The enthusiastic, infectious outcomes helped demonstrate that New Orleans was still an essential push in the music that was this enormous area of the city’s history. In 1998, Mosaic released a limited-edition package known as The Atlantic New Orleans Jazz Classes, which featured the entire contents of most four LPs, plus extra recordings by Barbarin as well as the Adolescent Tuxedo Brass Music group.