The jazz funeral, in which mourners taking a casket to the cemetery are accompanied by a band playing spirituals, hymns and dirges. In the post-1945 era, that tradition manifested in a more modern ...

(Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images) Musicians from the Treme Brass Band play in front of the Superdome during a jazz funeral procession dedicated to the victims of Hurricane Katrina August 29 ...

NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - JULY 09: Renita Blazio, right center, joins the Black Men of Labor Social Aid and Pleasure Club as the Treme Brass Band plays a dirge during the jazz funeral for her dad ...

Mourning as several celebrations in tribute to the late Russell Batiste Jr., including a tribute by his family on the Congo Square stage as well as a jazz funeral parade across the fairgrounds, ...

“I never liked considering a funeral being a gig,” he says. “I’m performing for somebody’s homegoing ceremony.” When Agee, a member of the famed Rebirth Brass Band, lifts his ...

They held an upside-down American flag and black signs bearing upside-down images ... A band played drums, horns, and a banjo. It was a New York version of a New Orleans-style jazz funeral.

In the vein of a traditional New Orleans jazz funeral, a brass band played alongside grieving relatives. Sorrow turned into a celebration of life as the swaying crowd followed the music down the ...

Big Chief Bo Dollis and the Wild Magnolias and the TBC Brass Band. The jazz funeral will be presented in memory of those lost during the COVID-19 pandemic, providing an opportunity for grieving ...

Trumpeter Digby Fairweather took a break from his headline spot at the Birmingham Jazz Festival to attend the funeral. Others at the funeral included saxophonists Iain Dixon, of BBC Big Band fame ...