File 026 · New Orleans, USA

French Quarter

Birthplace of jazz and of the brass-band funeral, and still rebuilding after Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

Why go

Birthplace of jazz and of the brass-band funeral, and still rebuilding after Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

The shoot: Live and Let Die (1973)

The jazz funeral.

Stand here

Walk Royal and Chartres Streets. Second-line parades pass on Sunday afternoons in season.

29.9584, -90.0644

Visit

Best: Spring, or Sundays Aug–Jun for second lines. Access: Free. Getting there: Streetcar along Canal Street. Frenchmen Street for live music.