A New Orleans Jazz History, 1895-1927. Even before jazz, for most New Orleanians, music was not a luxury as it often is elsewhereâit was a necessity. Throughout the nineteenth century, diverse ethnic and racial groups â French, Spanish, and African, Italian, German, and Irish â found common cause in their love of music.
Edward Herrmann. Edward Herrmann -- perhaps best known for playing Richard Gilmore on  Gilmore Girls  -- died this morning in a hospital in New York. He was 71. Herrmann's family tells TMZ he had been battling brain cancer and had been in ICU for the last 3 1/2 weeks.
'Gilmore Girls' Scott Patterson on the Future of Luke and Lorelai. I had to take a walk around Stars Hollow and re-live things and smell it and sense it and feel it.. When Gilmore Girls ended in 2007, Scott Patterson didn't feel finished with the show. The actor, who played grouchy diner owner Luke Danes for seven seasons, actively campaigned to reboot the series after its conclusion. I was very, very determined to bring it back, Patterson told ELLE.com at Entertainment Weekly's pre-Emmy bash last night.