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For your weekend viewing pleasure, 52 minutes of Benny Goodman, live in
Copenhagen in 1981. Erroneously billed as Goodman's last performance (which
actually happened in 1986, during the year of his death), there are guest
appearances from Svend Asmussen and Jimmy Maxwell; t...
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Num.
Title
Artist
Time
Release
Start Time
1
Soul Serenade
Beau Dollar & The Coins
02:37
Kent's Cellar Of Soul
2014/10/3 22:01:48
2
Higher And Higher
Queen Esther Marrow
03:47
feat. The Harlem Gospel Singers
2014/10...
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Jim Hobbs talks with members of Les Femmes d'Enfer (translation: "Women of
Hell"), an all-female Cajun/zydeco band from Port Townsend, Washington led by
Claudette Boudreaux, who is originally from Dulac, Louisiana. They talk about
the Cajun music scene in the Pacific Northw...
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Jamaican music legend Jimmy Cliff, who'll be performing Monday at the HOB New
Orleans, does two songs ("You Can Get It If You Really Want" and Johnny
Nash's "I Can See Clearly Now") live in 2011 at the Glastonbury Festival of
Contemporary Performing Arts, a five-day music f...
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Dr. John and the Lower 911, joined by Donald Harrison on sax, do a
ten-and-a-half minute version of "Goin' Back To New Orleans", recorded August
13, 2006 at the Newport Jazz Festival. The title track from a 1992 release by
Dr John, "Goin' Back To New Orleans" was originally...
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In the fourth WWOZ video profile of New Orleans buskers, we head over to Royal Street and get to know banjo player and song writer Kia Cavallaro.
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In this second WWOZ video profile of New Orleans buskers, we meet Brian Belknap, a self-taught musician who left a troubled home at an early age, thumbed cross country, making what he could playing on the streets. Currently, he plays throughout San Francisco and seasonally on...
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In this first in a series of WWOZ video profiles of New Orleans buskers, we meet Dick Deluxe, whose long, tumultuous career includes playing with New Orleans greats Earl King and Queen Ida, as well as many years of score writing with Clubfoot Orchestra virtuoso Richard Marriott.
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In the fifth WWOZ video profile of New Orleans buskers, we head over to Royal Street and get to know banjo player and song writer Washboard Lissa.
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