jazz funeral

English

Noun

jazz funeral (plural jazz funerals)

1. A public funeral procession accompanied by a brass band, as traditionally performed in New Orleans, and typically involving a switch at a certain point from sombre to more upbeat music.
   • 2008, Ned Sublette, The World That Made New Orleans, Lawrence Hill Books, published 2009, page 110:

     No other U.S. city has a tradition similar to the jazz funeral, but you can find cognates of the New Orleans funeral parade in the black urban neighborhoods of present-day Cuba and in Haiti.