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You can\u2019t visit New Orleans without hearing music. Literally\u2014just walk down the street and you\u2019ll hear music coming from clubs, restaurants, schools and homes. The live music calendar at clubs around the city is packed every night of the week with local musicians of all genres. Festivals large and small celebrate local and regional music, from zydeco and blues to funk and brass. But New Orleans is the birthplace of jazz, and there\u2019s something special about hearing it in the city where it all began. There are many places to hear jazz in New Orleans, and no visit to the city is complete without catching a show or two.<\/p>\n
Whether you prefer smooth contemporary jazz or the toe-tapping energy of a traditional jazz band, there\u2019s always a spot to see it live. You can start your day with a jazz brunch at famed restaurants like Commander\u2019s Palace<\/a> and Arnaud\u2019s<\/a>, or hit the town in the evening to listen through the night. Legendary local artists like Kermit Ruffins, Jeremy Davenport, Doreen Ketchens and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band keep the scene alive, performing in intimate lounges and historic venues across town, while up-and-comers are also given the spotlight to shine. Like what you hear? Be sure to tip the band. And stop by iconic record shops like Louisiana Music Factory<\/a> and Euclid Records<\/a> to take some of the music home with you.<\/p>\n RECOMMENDED: This guide was updated by New Orleans-based writer Gerrish Lopez<\/a>.\u00a0At Time Out, all of our travel guides are written by local writers who know their cities inside out. For more about how we curate, see our editorial guidelines<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.timeout.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" You can\u2019t visit New Orleans without hearing music. Literally\u2014just walk down the street and you\u2019ll hear music coming from clubs, restaurants, schools and homes. The live music calendar at clubs around the city is packed every night of the week with local musicians of all genres. Festivals large and small celebrate local and regional music, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2261271,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[376611,437998,437999,438000,438001,437997,403700,403706,403701,403702,22482],"class_list":["post-2261270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-categories-things-to-do","tag-dating-good-for-date-night","tag-format-evergreen","tag-global-kickers-city-identity","tag-global-kickers-love-local","tag-good-for-good-for-couples","tag-good-for-good-for-going-with-friends","tag-good-for-good-for-locals","tag-good-for-good-for-taking-parents","tag-good-for-good-for-tourists","tag-things-to-do"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/The-19-Best-Venues-to-Hear-Live-Jazz-in-New-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2261270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2261270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2261270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2261272,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2261270\/revisions\/2261272"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2261271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2261270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2261270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2261270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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