Remembering San Antonio’s great New Orleans sound

Published September 6, 2019 3:00am ET



Since 1963, it has been strange but true that one of the best places to hear traditional, New Orleans-style jazz was 540 miles away in culturally dissimilar San Antonio.

The life of the man who made it so, Jim Cullum, Jr., was celebrated Aug. 31 in a fitting tribute to one of the true greats of the art form’s unfortunately rare breed.

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