The New Orleans Jazz Museum is thrilled to announce the return of the Second Annual Gallatin Street Fest, to be held on Monday, April 28, 2025, at 400 Esplanade Avenue. This free, daylong event will celebrate the city’s rich musical and cultural heritage with live performances, local food vendors, a full-service bar, and curated merchandise and vinyl from Gallatin Street Records.

The New Orleans Jazz Museum’s Gallatin Street Records is thrilled to release “Caravan: From Marrakech to New Orleans” a full-length album by Mahmoud Chouki, Moroccan string virtuoso and innovative composer currently residing in New Orleans. Chouki calls the album a love letter to the city that welcomed him, and it features a host of New Orleans’ most iconic jazz musicians. Chouki and an all-star ensemble will celebrate the release with two shows at Snug Harbor on July 25, 626 Frenchmen Street, New Orleans.

The New Orleans Jazz Museum has experienced the busiest year to date with multiple international trips, the return of past programs and the creation of new ones, and more guests and musicians passing through our doors than ever before! Gathering together as a community is the lifeblood of New Orleans and we share that passion at the Jazz Museum.Being able to return to live events and programs in full force this year allowed us to celebrate and explore jazz together.

Congo Square to the World: Early Jazz in New Orleans will chronicle the history and evolution of New Orleans jazz, exploring its diverse roots and varied trajectory, as well as highlighting the lives and legacies of key performers such as Buddy Bolden, Louis Armstrong, Sidney Bechet, Lizzie Miles, and Jelly Roll Morton.

The New Orleans Jazz Museum has had quite the successful year thus far! We have collaborated with Disney, the New Orleans Pelicans, Fete de la Musique in Paris and many more to bring the music, history, and culture of New Orleans to people in our local, national, and global community. 

The New Orleans Jazz Museum (Louisiana, USA) and Le 360 Paris Music Factory (Paris, France) have joined forces to create a festival focused on cultural exchange. The first edition of this festival will take place from September 22 to 24, 2023, and will offer three days of musical and cultural programming.

The New Orleans Jazz Museum Improvisations Gala, presented by the Herb Alpert Foundation, takes place on Saturday, December 2 from 8-11 pm, preceded by a Patron Party. Amidst space-themed art installations, the 6th annual fundraiser promises to be a cosmic experience headlined by the incomparable Jason Neville Funky Soul Band & Special Guest Mr. P. Funk “George Clinton”, sponsored by James Douglas Hislop.

Our participation in Fête de la Musique was the latest iteration of Jazz International, the Jazz Museum's dynamic initiative dedicated to promoting New Orleans culture internationally through a broad range of global partnerships and cultural exchanges.

2021 has been filled with both exciting achievements and unprecedented challenges. We are excited to share our 2021 Annual Report.

The New Orleans Jazz Museum in partnership with The Jazz National Historical Park and the Musicians’ Council on Fair Wages Inc., presents Prime Examples of Excellence in Music: Curated by Jesse McBride, a monthly performance series sponsored by the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation.

The New Orleans Jazz Museum invites you to celebrate International Jazz Day with us on Friday, April 30! The Museum will commemorate the 10-year anniversary of this UNESCO-designated celebration with a day-long virtual event on facebook.com/nolajazzmuseum. Programming will feature local performers, including school bands, alongside international performers from Argentina, Japan, Taiwan, France, and other countries. Through these programs, the Jazz Museum will explore the global impact of New Orleans Jazz.

In lieu of traditional Jazz Fest season celebrations in the last week of April, the New Orleans Jazz Museum will offer a series of virtual and in-person events to mark springtime in New Orleans. These events will be hosted in addition to usual daytime virtual programming.

On Thursday, April 29, the New Orleans Jazz Museum will open its newest exhibit, From the Fat Man to Mahalia: James Michalopoulos’ Music Paintings.

As the New Orleans Jazz Museum wraps up another month of free virtual programs, we would like to reflect on a joyful celebration of Women’s History Month. This March, the Jazz Museum hosted a series of fantastic performances to recognize the great cultural impact of women in jazz music.

The New Orleans Jazz Museum is excited to announce a Drumsville: Evolution of the New Orleans Beat exhibition companion. The New Orleans Jazz Museum debuted Drumsville on November 8, 2018, in celebration of both International Drum Month and the New Orleans Tricentennial, along with the invention of the drum kit in New Orleans and the ongoing evolution of rich local drumming traditions. Drumsville is a highlight of our exhibit offerings, and we are excited to announce an accompanying book written by exhibit co-curator Dr. Robert H. Cataliotti.

The New Orleans Jazz Museum is in the midst of digitizing its collection of its over 25,000 holdings— the most extensive collection related to New Orleans jazz in the world.

This February, the New Orleans Jazz Museum partnered with Tito’s Handmade Vodka to proudly present four virtual programs featuring leading New Orleans musicians and culture bearers in celebration of Black History Month.