<Li> Steamboat Willie, a veteran musician of Dixieland, jazz and ragtime music still playing at the Cafe Beignet in New Orleans today . </Li> <Li> The Dukes of Dixieland, the Assunto family band of New Orleans . A successor band continues on in New Orleans today . </Li> <Li> Pete Fountain, late clarinetist who led popular bands in New Orleans . </Li> <Li> Al Hirt, trumpeter who had a string of top - 40 hits in the 1960s, led bands in New Orleans until his death . </Li>

In new orleans style jazz what is the most important melody instrument