This past Saturday, a funeral was held at St. Katherine Drexel Church to honor the great jazz musician. The Treme Brass Band played in his honor, with many members of the New Orleans music community ...

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 ...

asked me to be sure to take lots of pictures at the jazz funeral. They gave him a great one, as befitted someone who had loved and photographed New Orleans culture for decades. Every brass band in ...

(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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

How many good things can be said about the Jazz Funeral band? Plenty. Led by John Strawley, the “Jazz Funeral Irregulars” assemble to entertain at the Jazz Funeral. These earnest professional ...