The Preservation Resource Center’s Jazz Houses app has been enhanced to include tours of the homes of iconic musicians, just in time for Jazz Fest.

“The Jazz Houses app will allow music lovers to go back to the roots of New Orleans music by listening to the music while seeing where their favorite musician lived,” New Orleans Tourism and Marketing Corporation President and CEO Mark Romig said in a press release. “The amazing app launched about a year ago, but today it has gone from really good to great with new enhancements.”

In partnership with Culture Connect, the PRC created the app to highlight the Jazz Plaque Program, which features the former homes and locations of over 50 important and influential jazz musicians throughout the Greater New Orleans Area.

The app brings PRC’s Jazz Plaque Program to life by combining historical photographs, clips of jazz music and information about the artists and homes into a virtual tour of New Orleans jazz houses and historic neighborhoods.

The most recent musician added to the app is Professor Longhair, whose distinctive “rumba-boogie” piano playing style was a major influence on New Orleans Rhythm & Blues. Other musicians and locations featured in the app include Jelly Roll Morton, Joe “King” Oliver, Louis Armstrong’s boyhood home, among many others.

The app has many new features, including improved GPS and better maps, which will make finding these historic homes and locations even easier.

Dr. Jack Stewart led the PRC research and wrote the musician narratives, which are displayed on the plaques and in the app.

Additional Images used in the app have been provided courtesy of the New Orleans Jazz Club Collection at the LA State Museum, the Hogan Jazz Archive at Tulane University, and The Historic New Orleans Collection. The GHB Jazz Foundation has made music clips from early musicians available.

To access the “Jazz Houses: Where They Lived” app, text “Jazz” to 990-00 from your mobile phone or tablet or go to bit.ly/jazzhouses.