Video: American Legacies: Del McCoury Band and Preservation Hall Jazz Band promo

American Legacies pairs New Orleans jazz with traditional bluegrass for the sound of the saints marching in to Kentucky. You'll want to be in that number. It should be no major surprise that artists and fans find plenty of common ground between jazz and bluegrass music, two quintessentially American artforms, and collaborations between artists of both genres, as well as outright fusions of the two, have been frequent over the years. Country artists as far back as Jimmie Rodgers (who invited Louis Armstrong to play on "Blue Yodel #9") and Bob Wills (by staking a claim in western [...]

Two legends of distinctively American styles of music hooked up for the first time a few years back, when the Del McCoury Band was invited down to New Orleans to record a couple of tracks with Preservation Hall Jazz Band for their all-star benefit album , which was released in February 2010. With the success of that collaboration, the bands took things a step further and headed into the studio to see if they could find a place where New Orleans-style jazz fused with the high and lonesome sounds of bluegrass. [...]

Del McCoury Band and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band Release Joint Album, American Legacies, Today! Click HERE to Watch a Video About the Making of the Album, and to Stream ALL of American Legacies “If you're looking for credibility in either bluegrass or jazz, you'd be hard-pressed to top either the Del McCoury Band or the Preservation Hall Jazz Band.” -NPR Fans who have been streaming American Legacies, the unprecedented collaboration between bluegrass music’s legendary Del McCoury Band and New Orleans music giants, the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, [...]