WWOZ video was in the streets for Twelfth Night, the official start of the
2020 Carnival season, on Monday, January 6! Check out this video featuring
festivities at the Bywater Bakery's king cake kickoff, the Big Chief Tootie
Montana celebration at Congo Square, Joan of Arc...
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Earlier today, Black Masking Indians chanted in honor of Big Chief Tootie
Montana, the "Chief of Chiefs," in front of his statue in Congo Square/Louis
Armstrong Park. His family invited the public to this celebration of his life
and the opening of Carnival season.
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This week on Takin' It To The Streets, Action Jackson sits down with Slick
Leo to discuss Super Sunday with the Bucket Men back in the day, skeleton
men, the time when "everyday looked like a second line" in the 6th Ward, the
importance of looking nice, Jerome "Big Duck" Sm...
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1 Chili Mac Preston Love 03:39 Preston Love's Omaha Bar-B-Q
2 It Was Written Down Toots & The Maytals 03:06 Slatyam Stoot
3 Rockgospeltime Reverend C. Coleman 03:36 Rock Gospel Time
4 Nobody Wins Maxin Weldon 02:34 Inside Out Of Country Soul
5 Baby Turn Your Head Jimmy Dotson ...
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Saxophonist Jerry Jumonville passed away December 7, 2019, at Passages
Hospice in New Orleans. He was 78.
He was born December 5, 1941 and grew up in Carrollton. In high school, he
formed The Matadors. Jumonville moved from New Orleans to Los Angeles in the
late 1960s on t...
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As we close out our Jazz Fest at 50 photo series, we're cheating just a bit:
here are eight final wrap-up photos, all taken at the 50th Jazz Fest in 2019,
both inside and outside of the Fairgrounds gates.
The "50" logo was everywhere this year on official Jazz Fest items, s...
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Clancy "Blues Boy" Lewis died on December 1, 2019 at the age of 83. A New
Orleans native, Lewis was active in the local blues community for decades.
Lewis began playing blues after he constructed an amplifier from a radio as a
teenager. He performed at every Jazz Fest from ...
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Jambalaya Cajun Band in front of the Fais Do Do Stage ca. 2000. Photo by Burt
Steel, courtesy of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Archive.
In honor of Jazz Fest's 50th anniversary in 2019, we're featuring a Jazz Fest
photo of the day with our audience. Keep your eyes here,...
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Deacon John Moore onstage at Jazz Fest ca. 1980. Photo by Laura Fanguy,
courtesy of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Archive.
In honor of Jazz Fest's 50th anniversary in 2019, we're featuring a Jazz Fest
photo of the day with our audience. Keep your eyes here, and at our J...
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Happy birthday to Zigaboo Modeliste! Here he is onstage with Foundation of
Funk, featuring Modeliste and George Porter, Jr. with special guests Ivan
Neville, Tony Hall, and Ian Neville on April 26, 2019. Photo by Leon Morris.
In honor of Jazz Fest's 50th anniversary in 20...
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