Part 1

You got one of the parts of the score. 🤓 Did you know that on December 13, 1915, Chicago café owner Harry James discovered a young ragtime band playing on Canal Street in which the meeting eventually led to the recruitment and formation of the Original Dixieland Jazz Band (ODJB) in Chicago. The ODJB went on to make the first jazz record “Livery Stable Blues” in New York on February 26, 1917. Keep exploring the map and find the rest of the parts of the score. Go!

Part 2

You got one of the parts of the score. 🤓 Did you know that New Orleans City developed Louis Armstrong Park in the 1960s and 1970s in an urban renewal project that destroyed a section of the Treme community, considered to be one of the oldest African American neighborhoods in the United States based on the large number of free person of color land owners in the early 1800s. Like the French Quarter, the Treme was largely an Italian and African American community by 1900, and produced the great New Orleans trumpeter/singer Louis Prima, who modeled his style on Louis Armstrong. Keep exploring the map and find the other parts of the score. Go!

Part 3

You got one of the parts of the score! 🤓 Did you know this original quote from Louis Armstrong? “I also looked forward to every night in the Red Light District, when I was delivering Stone Coal to the girls working in those Cribs. I could hear these wonderful jazz musicians playing music the way it should be played.” - Louis Armstrong Keep exploring the map and find the other parts of the score. Go!

Part 4

You got one of the parts of the score. 🤓 Did you know that After the closing of Storyville in 1917, the Tango Belt inherited much of the prostitution trade. Norma Wallace, known as the “Last Madame,” operated her brothel at 1026 Conti from the 1920s through the 1960s, and it was considered one of the last hold-overs of that trade from the 1920s. Keep exploring the map and find the other parts of the score. Go!

Part 5

You got one of the parts of the score. 🤓 Did you know... Louis Armstrong also remembered the Lyric with fondness: "I went to the Lyric Theater quite often. Located downtown on Iberville and Burgundy streets. Robichaux Orchestra was always the best. They all read music. John Robichaux. They used to play for the stage shows. Andrew Kimball was the cornetist in the band (my choice)."

Part 6

You got one of the parts of the score. 🤓 Did you know that Still family run for over 50 years, Preservation Hall hosts performances 350 nights a year, and includes educational programs aimed at preserving the legacy of Jazz in New Orleans. Keep exploring the map and find the other parts of the score. Go!

Part 7

You got one of the parts of the score. 🤓 Did you know that Local musicians Leroy Jones, Greg Stafford, Michael White, and many others played in the Fairview, and the Dirty Dozen Brass Band evolved from former members in the 1970s. Keep exploring the map and find the other parts of the score. Go!

Part 8

Did you know... On New Year’s Eve, 1913, an adolescent Louis Armstrong was arrested for shooting a pistol into the air at the corner of Perdido and Rampart streets here in front of the Eagle Saloon. His sentencing required him to attend 18 months at the Colored Waif’s Home near City Park, where the structured environment provided his first formal musical training on bugle and cornet, and performance opportunities in parades. Keep exploring the map and find the other parts of the score. Go!

Part 9

You got one of the parts of the score. 🤓 Did you know that a young Louis Armstrong famously won a talent contest here in which he dipped his face in flour to perform in white face, a reverse of the more common minstrel show practice of performing in black face. He lived only two blocks away on Perdido Street, where Duncan Plaza and City Hall are today. He recalled: “Some nights we would see a moving picture at the Iroquois Theater – 10 cents each for May Ann and Tom, five cents for Mama Lucy and me.” Keep exploring the map and find the other parts of the score. Go!