New Orleans Jazz Walking Tour
Description
Our Jazz tour is guided by local musicians, choregraphers, producers, and directors who are apart of the New Orleans Artist community. They are also Natives, Oral Historians, Cultural Ambassadors, and Preservationist. Join us and explore the evolution of music in the city known as "the birthplace of Jazz." Home to Louis Armstrong, Buddy Bolden, Sidney Bechet, Louis Prima, and Sharkey Bonano just to name a few. . .You'll be guided through the last remaining sites where Jazz, champagne, and romance reigned supreme. Learn about the people, the history, and the influences which contributed to the development of America's only gift to world culture... Jazz!
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Itinerary
The tour will start at Louis Armstrong Park. The travelers will visit the first pioneers of Jazz monuements and the first dance halls where Jazz reign supreme. They will hear the stories of Jazz pioneers such as; Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Charles "Buddy" Bolden and others Jazz icons.
The travels will visit the New Orleans Jazz Museum or the first Jazz museum at the St. Pierre Hotel where the GREAT Louis Armstrong stayed when he performed in New Orleans.
The travelers will explore the sacred grounds of Congo Square where it has been said the origins of Jazz was discovered, in addition to witnessing the oldest African American neighborhood in the country, Treme.
The travelers will also experience live Jazz music on one of the most popular and muscial streets in New Orleans, "Frenchmen Street".
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Important Information
- Wheelchair accessible
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
- Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness
- Tour operates with a minimum of 2 guest . We do not operate with 1 guest unless its a Private Tour, call for details.
- must be able to stand for a long period of time.
Reviews(98)
Great tour and our tour guide Harris Parson was amazing!! He knew his stuff about Jazz!! Very interesting tour and kept all of us asking questions and wanting more info about the Jazz influences from New Orleans.
Thank you for booking your Jazz Tour experience with TBNOLA. We are happy to hear Harris was AMAZING, He is one of the Top Jazz Tour Guides in New Orleans. Please share your experience with family and friends.
First time taking a jazz history tour and our group left feeling like we learned so much. Our tour guide was amazing, very knowledgeable and welcoming. This was one of the highlights of our trip to New Orleans!
Thank you for booking your Jazz Tour experience with TBNOLA. Please share your experience with family and friends. We are happy to hear this was a highlight of your visit to New Orleans.
My wife and I were the only ones on tour. Learned a lot about New Orleans jazz and its beginnings. Viewed present Jazz Museum and site of new one being built. I wanted to visit some actual clubs and hear jazz if only for 10 to 15 minutes at each club.
Good Day, Hope you enjoyed your Jazz Tour experience. Unfortunately we do not do a Jazz club crawl our focus is on the pioneers, historical sites, and landmarks. We do hope Harris was able to point you to and recommend Jazz clubs and venues.
We loved our walking history of jazz tour with Harris Parsons as the guide, he was great. We learned so much and had a super fun time
Thank you for booking your Jazz Tour experience with TBNOLA. Please share your experience with family & friends.
We did the walking jazz tour and it was wonderful. Our guide was Harris Parsons and he was great. So much history! We loved it. Harris knees the area and the music amwhich made it so fun to hear all the inside stories that made it come alive. Highly recommend Harris as a guide for this tour.
Thank you for booking your Jazz Tour experience with TBNOLA., Harris is one of our BEST guides and a asset to TBNOLA. Please share your experience with family & friends.
Tour guide Harris Parson: knowledgeable, perceptive, thoughtful, thorough. When you complete a walking tour with Harris, you really feel you've come to know the artists, culture, and social realities which birthed jazz, not to mention key facts about the history and architecture of New Orleans... Outstanding. Paul F., Chicago
Thank you for booking your Jazz Tour experience with TBNOLA. We are happy to hear Harris was exceptional and you enjoyed his knowledge and experience. Please share your experience with family and friends
Harris was an amazing tour guide! Very personable and inspiring. He knew all the hot spots to go to see live music. His after the tour text had all the stuff we talked about and a lot of useful information. The only thing I wish we did, not negative, was to do the tour when we first go here, not the night before we left. 😊 (we will just have to go to the places he mentioned in the tour on our next visit)
Thank you for booking your Jazz Tour experience with TBNOLA. We are happy to hear Harris was exceptional and you enjoyed his knowledge and experience. Please share your experience with family and friends and encourage them, if they visit New Orleans to do the Jazz Tour before they do anything else in New Orleans.
Harris was excellent! We learned so much about the history of New Orleans and jazz! Was a really interesting walking tour.
Thank you for booking your Jazz Tour experience with TBNOLA. We are happy to hear Harris was exceptional and you enjoyed his knowledge and experience. Please share your experience with family and friends.
Harris is a wealth of information. As a native New Orleans resident he enthusiastically shares his love of the city. If you go on his tour you won’t be disappointed.
Thank you for booking your tour experience with TBNOLA. Harris is a wealth of information and passioned about the history and culture of New Orleans, Please share your tour experience with family and friends.
Very Informative tour. Our guide, Harris, did a great job of explaining the history of Jazz. He was engaging with the group and left us with a lot of info and links to follow up on.
Thank you for booking your Jazz Tour experience with TBNOLA. We hope all of the valuable follow up information he left you with assisted you with discovering other fun and exciting things to do in New Orleans. Please share your experience with family and friends.
