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.
âActor John Morton. Richard Treat Williams is an American screen actor who has starred in such feature films as Deep Rising (1998), Dead Heat (1988), Flashpoint (1984), Prince of the City (1981), and Hair (1979), and such television series as Heartland (2007) and Everwood (2002â2006).