The Jazz Museum Meets Storyville: the 2025 Improvisations Gala
Organizers for this year’s Improv Gala at the New Orleans Jazz Museum collaborated with the Storyville Museum for a sassy theme that included jazz, gaming and burlesque. Photo by Scott Saltzman
December 2025For this year’s fabulous Improvisations Gala, the New Orleans Jazz Museum collaborated with the Storyville Museum for a sassy theme that included jazz, gaming, and burlesque.
- photos by Cheryl Gerber and Scott Saltzman
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Cheryl Gerber is a freelance journalist and documentary photographer working in New Orleans, where she was born. She began her journalism career as a reporter but switched to photography after spending a year working in Honduras. In 1992, she began working for Michael P. Smith, who nurtured her desire to document daily life in New Orleans.
She began working with Gambit Weekly as a staff photographer in 1994 and today is a regular contributor to The New York Times, the Associated Press, New Orleans Magazine and French Quarter Journal. During the past two decades, Cheryl has won several awards from the New Orleans Press Club for her work on social issues and news photography.
Cheryl is the author of three books: NEW ORLEANS: Life and Death in the Big Easy, Cherchez La Femme: New Orleans Women, and The Danse Macabre: Celebration and Survival in New Orleans. Follow her on Substack here.
Photographer Scott Saltzman strives to create imagery encapsulating the feeling of a moment or time frame, to create a 1000 word essay with a single image. Scott has been residing in New Orleans as a freelance photographer for over 30 years.
During that time, his experience living, exploring and documenting the raw, albeit sometimes subtle, emotional energy found in live performance (and other avenues of life) has helped him create an archive with some truly sentinel images of and for the times. Some of those images can be seen here, here and on his website.