Mahogany Jazz Hall pairs an absinthe house with a stage devoted to traditional New Orleans jazz, and the Mahogany Hall Jazz Band is the room’s musical anchor. WWOZ describes the group as holding down the musical fort there, with clarinetist and educator Tom Fischer leading “a cast of all-star musicians, all veterans who bring their A game to every show.”
The band plays regular sets at the Hall — including late-night sets with the Midnight Burlesque revue — with a rotating cast of featured guests. Recent lineups have spotlighted trumpeters Kid Chocolate and Mike Fulton and vocalist Andrew Baham, and the room also fields the sibling Mahogany Hall All Stars and Mahogany Hall Swingsters lineups. The exact founding year of the band has not been confirmed in published sources; the group has been on the Mahogany stage throughout the 2020s.
For visitors and locals alike, the Mahogany Hall Jazz Band is the sound of a working French Quarter jazz room: traditional New Orleans jazz played by veterans, night after night.
