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WWOZ Private Collections Series features DJ's Mark LaMaire and Jim Hobbs
throwing down on the 1's and 2's with a portion of drink sales going to help
your favorite local radio station. And if that's not enough...local bands
Felix, Esqueleto, and Metronome the City have all ...
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Here's big shout out from WWOZ to all the high school marching bands that
fill Mardi Gras parades with musical energy. If you're out at parades this
weekend, look for the following bands: On Friday, McDonogh 35 marches in
Oshun and St. Aug's in Cleopatra; on Saturday, McDon...
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Earlier this month, the New Orleans Suspects filmed this 9-minute jam,
"Grits", at KDHX, a listener-supported community radio station in St. Louis.
The Suspects are a band whose line up (see below) exemplifies the mock-adage
shared on their web site: "It’s been said that the...
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From a press release from Project Homecoming:
Project Homecoming along with Tipitina’s Foundation and the United Way will
dedicate the newly renovated family home of music legend Professor Longhair.
The dedication will take place Friday, February 21, from 2:00-4:00 PM at 17...
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Chuck Perkins and WWOZ's Sally Young talk about some of the history of
Storyville and Danny Barker's stories as well as Perkins being the
"Poet-laureate" of New Orleans.
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Miles Weeks and WWOZ's Scott Borne talk about the latest CD by Weeks, "Sense
of Self." Borne mentions the departure that this CD is compared to Weeks
playing with Eric Lindell, Andrew Duhon, Colin Lake, and others. Weeks
explains how the album is a "pouring-out" of things h...
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Clarence Johnson stopped by WWOZ and chatted with Scott Borne about Johnson's
experience doing a jazz and gospel show on WWOZ right before Katrina, the
"Fertile Crescent," his latest CD, and more.
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Victor Goines visits with WWOZ's Jelly Roll Justic; they talk about Goines'
mentors at St. Augustine, the philosophy of improvisation, and more.
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George Porter tells WWOZ's Black Mold how he's recorded every performance and
how he spends a lot of his free time listening to those shows to see if any
new "licks" have come from it. They also chat about Porter's musical
background with classical guitar, the original name...
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Here's nine red-hot minutes of Little Freddie King rocking a medieval
fortification in France, beautifully shot and recorded by what we're told
were "a group of film and audio students." C'est bon!
The title "Incruste au Nancy Jazz Pulsations" means something along the lines...
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