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Donald Harrison Jr. at the 2018 Satchmo Summerfest, photo by Noé Cugny

Jazz Master Donald Harrison Passes Down Afro-New Orleans Musical Culture

July 27, 2022 by: Geraldine Wyckoff

Big Chief Donald Harrison, who in 2022 was recognized as a Jazz Master by the prestigious National Endowment for the Arts, put the links connecting New Orleans musical styles into words when he named his Mardi Gras Indian tribe the Congo Square Afro-New Orleans Cultural Group. "Afro-New Orlean...

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