Jazz Articles about National Park Service

National Park Service: Songs of the Lower Mississippi Delta

by Wade Luquet
January 21, 2012

Park rangers often conjure up images of uniformed guardians of historical monuments or natural resources in national forests. In New Orleans, these same uniformed rangers guard one of the United States' most precious resources--jazz and the music of the American south. The rangers of the New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park are musicians and historians who preserve and promote jazz through performances, education, and compilations of music CDs. Songs of the Lower Mississippi Delta is a two-disc set ...