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Join us tonight on the Kitchen Sink Show at 10:00 p.m. as Mr. Quintron stops
in to Guest D.J.
Rumor has it that he will be bringing a copy of the 2011 Ninth Ward Marching
Band recordings from their Piety Street recording sessions.
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Trumpet Mike Kobrin is originally from Brooklyn. He moved to New
Orleans and was the web editor and music listings editor at WWOZ for about
two years.
Mike says: “That was up until about the end of 2010 when I
decided to take it full time to the trumpet ‘caus...
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Impress your friends with a fancy dessert from one of our favorite soul food restaurants in New Orleans, Dooky Chase. Dooky Chase may be better known for its homestyle fried chicken and lunchtime buffets, but this is something worth whipping up just for the "oohs" and "ahhs."
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Today's show features Saxophonist, Flautist, and Clarinet player Rex Gregory,
a jazz musician whose philosophical ideas influence his compositions as much
as his teachers and collaborators do. This show was recorded at the New
Orleans night club, the Blue Nile, where Rex is...
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Joseph S. Clark High School,once a highly regarded school in Tremé, has gone through changes over the last years. Listen to Zach Young to hear more
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On this week’s program we feature Susan Cowsill, a songwriter whose musical
career started as a child with her family’s band, "The Cowsills." She
continues to perform in New Orleans and today we listen to a performance
recorded at New Orleans’s French Quarter Festival. We a...
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The best creative collaborations always seem to draw individuals who’ve
come from different points to converge suddenly at a crossroads in a
seemingly “accidental” moment. But…we know that nothing simply
happens by accident!
Today’s Jazz from the French Market highligh...
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On this week’s program, saxophonist Rebecca Barry performs the compositions
of Sonny Rollins, John Coltrane and others, followed by Jason Marsalis with
some original compositions In addition, Gallery owner Andy Antippas brings
us to Preservation Hall and writer Lee Barclay ...
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According to my own personal calculations, the word will end on Saturday
night at midnight. Tune in to WWOZ for the soundtrack, including Radiohead,
Johnny Cash and The Blind Boys. Find out if it ends with a bang or a whimper.
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Dear Listener,
The common wisdom is that New Orleans goes into a deep sleep once summer sets
in. But you wouldn’t know it if you had been down on Frenchman Street on a
regular old Saturday night in July, smack dab in the middle of our presumed
estivation!
From one end of t...
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