New Orleans Jazz Museum
Located at the foot of Esplanade Avenue, the New Orleans Jazz Museum, located in the Old U.S. Mint, is a national historic landmark that is part of the Louisiana State Museum system.
The New Orleans Jazz Museum is strategically located at the intersection of the city’s French Quarter and the Frenchmen Street live music corridor. The Museum celebrates the history of jazz, in all its forms, through dynamic interactive exhibits, multigenerational educational programming, research facilities, and engaging musical performances. For further details, visit NOLAjazzmuseum.org.
You can hear great music from some of New Orleans’ best contemporary artists in the state-of-the-art performance venue on the New Orleans Jazz Museum’s third floor. The Museum uses the space for evening programs, solo and small group concerts and special events while the New Orleans Jazz National Historic Park offers daily live music programs for local residents and visitors to the Museum. Learn more and find a calendar of events at MusicAtTheMint.org
Upcoming Shows
6-8pm | The First Piano Professors and the Lost Music of Early New Orleans Exhibit Opening, revealing the unheard 19th-century world that preceded jazz.
Before recorded sound, New Orleans was a center for composition. This exhibition unveils forgotten piano music, written and published by composers, many African American and Creole, who fused African, Afro-Caribbean, Creole, and European traditions into a unique local sound.
Curated by pianist and archivist John Davis, the project is based on a 30-year search for keyboard works, primarily surviving as printed sheet music. Visitors will experience rare first-edition scores and historic instruments alongside the first-ever modern recordingsof this foundational music, positioning New Orleans as a city of composers whose written work circulated globally.
The exhibition, curated by pianist and archivist John Davis from his three-decade private archive, in conjunction with renowned, global creative design studio 2x4, reunites rare first-edition scores with newly commissioned recordings. Visitors will hear music not recorded since its 19th-century inception, prefiguring America’s most influential art form.
