"Benjamin Jaffe", also known as "Ben Jaffe", is the creative director of Preservation Hall and plays tuba and upright bass with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band/Preservation Hall Jazz Band.

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We've never lived more than a few miles from each other.

They're not carpenters. There's not a lot of need for jazz trombone players in Shreveport, La.

All of us had our worlds completely turned upside down. That's a really powerful thing to happen overnight. We take so many things for granted.

He was really our last connection to a bygone time in the history of New Orleans.

He drew for me on a piece of paper all of my scales. Every week it was something new. That was my first introduction to music theory.

Before the storm we were musical ambassadors of New Orleans, and now we've become cultural ambassadors for the faith of post-Katrina renewal.

We celebrate people's memories here. We acknowledge death through the celebration of people's lives.