Hogan Jazz Archive

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  • Address
    Tulane University, 3rd floor, Joseph Merrick Jones Hall, 304 Freret St, Riverbend
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  • Phone
    504 865 5688
  • Transport
    bus: 10, 11 or 12

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A specialized research library, this is worth visiting if you're writing a book about jazz, or are seriously into jazz history. Most of its great wealth of material is not on exhibit; the librarian will retrieve items from the stacks for you. The collection includes stacks of 78rpm recordings, including early sides recorded by the Original Dixieland Jazz Band in 1917, and you can ask to listen to rare tracks if you like. There's also a wealth of oral histories, photos and early concert posters.

Curator Bruce Raeburn is a great man to talk to if you come with questions about jazz. For the more casual visitor, the Storyville Room, with its emphasis on Jelly Roll Morton (who played piano in the district's bordellos during the early 20th century) may be of interest.