If old or obscure recordings are your thing, I've got a treat for you. The University of California at Santa Barbara partnered with the Institute of Museum and Library Services to digitize over 10,000 cylinder recordings from 1890-1928. The recordings are available to the p... Read more

Last Saturday night, WWOZ's new video team produced its first live stream. We streamed two sets from the Bogalusa Blues & Heritage Festival: Big George Brock and the Ruthie Foster Band. If you missed it, no worries: you can see them both here. Read more

Aaron Neville and folk-blues-country vocalist Maria Muldaur perform "Amazing Grace" at the Cow Palace in San Francisco, on November 26, 1989. Muldaur's career began as part of the American folk music revival and the Greenwich Village scene of the early 1960s. Her subsequent... Read more

In this episode, we take a look at the blues in New Orleans, a city filled with blues players. Read more

For your weekend viewing pleasure, here's Elvis Costello accompanied by Allen Toussaint, the Crescent City Horns (including Big Sam Williams) and the Imposters, live from the Montreal Jazz Festival on July 3, 2006. This video is 56 minutes long, selected from a 3 hour show-... Read more

Check out our live video stream of Sync Up conference May 1-2, starting each day at 10a. If you missed the first weekend's sessions, you can watch recordings. Sync Up includes seven days of educational and networking sessions for independent artists and industry professionals ... Read more

Ella Fitzgerald's first appearance at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1969, then held at the Montreux Casino, included this scat version of "One Note Samba". She's backed by the Tommy Flanagan Trio. The YouTube video mistakenly identifies this as "a packed New Orleans" perfor... Read more

Two Guardians of the Groove, Bonnie Raitt and Allen Toussaint, team up on "What Is Success" at the Saenger Theater in New Orleans in 2006. The song dates from around 1970, having appeared on Toussaint's eponymous second solo album, also issued as From a Whisper to a Scream.   Read more