Al Hirt plays a song for Gumbo, the New Orleans Saints mascot, at a luncheon at the Jung Hotel honoring the team's coaches and players before their first season opener.

One of the nation’s most recognizable performers in the 1960s, Mr. Hirt recorded 55 albums in his career and won a Grammy award in 1963 for the song “Java.” ...

Al Hirt, 76, Dixieland jazz trumpeter who was a symbol of the exuberant laissez-faire way of life of New Orleans; one of the nation’s most recognizable performers in the 1960s, he recorded 55… ...