Friday October 18th is the 84th birthday of influential New Orleans music
educator Yvonne Busch.
Born and raised in the historic Tremé section of the city, Ms Busch mastered
several brass instruments and woodwinds as a child. She became a touring
professional by the ag...
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The second installment of "Guardians of the Groove" (see below for more on the series) aired on WWL-TV recently. WWOZ's T.R. Johnson talked with Donald Harrison about music education and the future of jazz at the Prime Example on Broad Street.
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Tonight (Tuesday) at 10 PM CDT on WWOZ - the Fool Tone Scientists on the
Kitchen Sink will be playing the Silver Reel winning radio documentary:
James Carroll Booker III: The Life, Music, and Mystique of the Bayou
Maharajah.
2 hours of Booker, who he was, what he meant, ...
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This traditional song, "Satan Your Kingdom Must Come Down", appears on the
new album by Meschiya Laka and the Little Big Horns Fooler's Gold.
The video was recorded in Bimhuis Amsterdam for VPRO Vrije Geluiden, i.e.,
Dutch national television.
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In the half-hour long video clip below, the immortal Professor Longhair,
pride of Bogalusa, plays at the Jazz Festival in Nice, France, a festival
established in 1948 and perhaps the oldest "jazz festival of international
significance." The video's YouTube page dates the pe...
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Just out earlier this week: the YouTube video for Troy "Trombone Shorty"
Andrews' single, "Fire and Brimstone", from his latest album Say That to Say
This, co-produced by Andrews and the impresario of Old School R&B, Raphael
Saadiq.
In fact, Saadiq doesn’t just co-produce; ...
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Showing at this year's New Orleans Film Festival: A Warehouse on
Tchoupitoulas, a documentary about the legendary rock venue, located near
Tchoupitoulas and Felicity in the Lower Garden District, from 1970 - 1982.
A Warehouse on Tchoupitoulas will be screened at the CAC on W...
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Info courtesy of the New Orleans Film Society:
For the third year, the New Orleans Film Festival will include a programming
sidebar of films about music and musicians. Called “keeping {SCORE},”
this series was inspired by the city’s long musical legacy and the local
audienc...
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This year's Ponderosa Stomp featured "Architects of American Music"
including the likes of The Sonics, Swamp Dogg, Ty Wagner, Gaunga Dyns, and
plenty more. Apart from the live concert over the weekend, the Stomp also
featured a Record Show and Music History Conference hoste...
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