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2 giorni fa · The Battle of New Orleans was fought on January 8, 1815, between the British Army under Major General Sir Edward Pakenham and the United States Army under Brevet Major General Andrew Jackson, roughly 5 miles (8 km) southeast of the French Quarter of New Orleans, in the current suburb of Chalmette, Louisiana.
1 giorno fa · Hurricane Katrina was a devastating and deadly Category 5 Atlantic hurricane that caused 1,392 fatalities and damages estimated at $186.3 billion (2022 USD) in late August 2005, particularly in the city of New Orleans and its surrounding area. [1] Katrina was the twelfth tropical cyclone, the fifth hurricane, and the third major ...
23 mag 2024 · Louis Armstrong (born August 4, 1901, New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.—died July 6, 1971, New York, New York) was the leading trumpeter and one of the most influential artists in jazz history.
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2 giorni fa · New Orleans jazz began in the early 1910s, combining earlier brass band marches, French quadrilles, biguine, ragtime and blues with collective polyphonic improvisation. However, jazz did not begin as a single musical tradition in New Orleans or elsewhere. [7]
21 ore fa · Armstrong was a member of Fate Marable's New Orleans Band in 1918, here on board the S.S. Sidney. Early in his career, Armstrong played in brass bands and riverboats in New Orleans, first on an excursion boat in September 1918.
23 mag 2024 · Dixieland, in music, a style of jazz, often ascribed to jazz pioneers in New Orleans, but also descriptive of styles honed by slightly later Chicago-area musicians.
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1 giorno fa · New Orleans, in particular, has retained a significant historical population of Creoles of color, a group mostly consisting of free persons of multiracial European, African, and Native American descent.
