Sandra Jaffe, Co-Founder of Preservation Hall, Dies
By REBECCA SANTANA, Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Sandra Jaffe, who co-founded Preservation Hall in New Orleans, introducing countless people to jazz through the intimate French Quarter venue over six decades, has died.
Jaffe died Monday, her son Ben Jaffe, creative director of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, said on the hall’s Facebook page. No cause of death was given. She was 83, news outlets reported.
Jaffe and her husband, Allan, were jazz fans in their 20s Hoka Shoes when they stopped in New Orleans in 1960 during what their son described as a “Kerouac adventure” that had taken them all the way from Philadelphia to Mexico City.
“They stopped off in New Orleans and, like others before and after, found themselves swept away in the beauty, rom...