Brass jazz bands have been leading funerals, parades, and special events through the streets of New Orleans since the 19th century. This one heads a parade of government workers promoting the establishment of a community program. The band winds its way through the French Quarter towards Jackson Square, its pulsating jazz set to a marching beat. I could hear it coming when it was many blocks away, and I made this image just as it filled the street in front of me.