EskewDumezRipple to design Louisiana Music and Heritage Experience Museum
The legendary jazz musician Ferdinand “Jelly Roll” Morton once said, “It is evidently known, beyond contradiction, that New Orleans is the Cradle of Jazz, and I myself happen to be the inventor in the year 1902.” A bold claim. While Jelly Roll famously declared sole authorship over the genre, some argue jazz music was collectively invented in New Orleans’s Congo Square before the U.S. Civil War; others locate jazz’s […]