At a moment when musical streams are crossing with unprecedented frequency, it’s crucial to remember that throughout its history, New Orleans has been the point at which sounds and cultures from around the world converge, mingle, and resurface, transformed by the Crescent City’s inimitable spirit and joie de vivre. Nowhere is that idea more vividly embodied than in the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, which has held the torch of New Orleans music aloft for more than 60 years, all the while carrying it enthusiastically forward as a reminder that the history they were founded to preserve is a vibrantly living history.

PHJB marches that tradition forward once again on So It Is. The album redefines what New Orleans music means today by tapping into a sonic continuum that stretches back to the city’s Afro-Cuban roots, through its common ancestry with the Afrobeat of Fela Kuti and the Fire Music of Pharoah Sanders and John Coltrane, and forward to cutting-edge artists with whom the PHJB have shared festival stages from Coachella to Newport, including legends like Stevie Wonder, Elvis Costello and the Grateful Dead and modern giants like Beck, The Foo Fighters, My Morning Jacket, and the Black Keys.

Preservation Hall Jazz Band

Patchogue Theatre for the Performing Arts

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Take Me to the River All-stars

Joy Theater

At a moment when musical streams are crossing with unprecedented frequency, it’s crucial to remember that throughout its history, New Orleans has been the point at which sounds and cultures from around the world converge, mingle, and resurface, transformed by the Crescent City’s inimitable spirit and joie de vivre. Nowhere is that idea more vividly embodied than in the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, which has held the torch of New Orleans music aloft for more than 60 years, all the while carrying it enthusiastically forward as a reminder that the history they were founded to preserve is a vibrantly living history.

La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts

Direct from New Orleans the legendary Preservation Hall Jazz Band will take the stage at The McKittrick Hotel once more. The Big Easy meets the City That Never Sleeps for what will be legendary nights of heart-pounding world class jazz.

The McKittrick Hotel

Preservation Hall Jazz Band takes its name from New Orleans’ Preservation Hall, the humble but historic French Quarter music venue dedicated to keeping the past and future of jazz alive. People from around the globe make pilgrimages to it, and now its ambassadors, the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, are embarking on a pilgrimage of their own: a nationwide tour to celebrate their 60th anniversary.

Preservation Hall Jazz Band: Creole Christmas

North Shore Center for the Performing Arts in Skokie

“The past and promise of American music” (Rolling Stone), Preservation Hall Jazz Band is a true New Orleans institution that defines the tradition of Crescent City music. They return to their West Coast homec accompanied by special guest vocalist Tarriona "Tank" Ball and multi-instrumentalist Norman Spence II of the GRAMMY-nominated soul group Tank and The Bangas.



SFJAZZ Center

From the heart of the French Quarter to the world’s stage, the Preservation Hall Jazz Band has spread the joyful, timeless spirit of true New Orleans jazz since 1961. The band has featured a long cadre of legendary musicians over the years and issued a number of albums, all of which showcase the group’s rootsy, soulful brand of traditional New Orleans jazz. While standards and traditional New Orleans jazz repertoire remain their core focus, they’ve transformed into a vibrantly cross-pollinated ambassador for New Orleans, exploring original compositions, Afro-Cuban rhythms, R&B influences, and collaborating with artists beyond the jazz spectrum. The Preservation Jazz Band is now embarking on the nationwide tour Pass It On – 60th Anniversary Musical Celebration, commemorating six decades of the Hall’s well-worn, well-loved space that’s physically small, but spiritually huge. The band’s mission remains focused on initiating audiences into the ineffable, almost religious experience of channeling their ancestors through the music and culture they’ve inherited from them.

Lobero Theatre

Celebrate the season as the Preservation Hall Jazz Band takes the stage with Creole Christmas, a performance featuring New Orleans classics as well as beloved holiday selections with a twist. Founded in 1963, the band takes its name from Preservation Hall, the humble but historic French Quarter music venue dedicated to keeping the past and future of jazz alive. Its recent releases redefine modern New Orleans music by tapping into sonic elements that stretch back to the city’s Afro-Cuban roots and reach forward to contemporary artists like Stevie Wonder, Elvis Costello and Arcade Fire.

Preservation Hall Jazz Band

Dec 8, 2025

Preservation Hall Jazz Band: Creole Christmas

Mar 14, 2025

Preservation Hall Jazz Band

Apr 27, 2024

Take Me to the River All-stars

Preservation Hall Jazz Band