Judge Duane Peterson loved the law. But when the trumpets blared, the tubas thumped and the clarinets whined - that's when he was happiest. Peterson, a longtime Winona lawyer, Houston County district ...

People knew Mike Currao as the banjo player they could count on for a swift-fingered solo whenever Naples Jazzmasters or the Naples Dixieland Jazz Band took the stage. They knew him as the first to ...

The Barbary Coast Dixieland Jazz Band holds a special place in Minnesota music history — and not just because its members were inducted into the Minnesota Music Hall of Fame in 2001. The jazz band has ...

Narvin Kimball died this week at 96. He was the last founding member of The New Orleans Preservation Hall Jazz Band. He made his first banjo out of a cigar box, a stick and some string. Today we play ...

Stage lights glisten off the shiny bells of the cornet and trombone as the band strikes up a strutting tune. The dance floor begins to fill with ladies in fringed dresses, many carrying fancy ...

Most people would say, "A banjo is a banjo," but there are two separate worlds of banjo lovers separated by one thin string. Five-string pickers play bluegrass and folk music, and four-string ...