We're featuring your photos on social media and web! Thanks to everyone who's
used our hashtag, #WWOZ, lately.
These are your pictures, captured everywhere from the WWOZ studio to Tokyo,
Japan, with more to come! Post your WWOZ inspired pics and use #WWOZ to help
us find t...
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The good people at Discogs have put together an interactive map featuring
EVERY brick-and-mortar record store on the planet. This is truly an
impressive feat, and helps cross the language barrier that arises during
travel.
Next time you're in another domestic city and jon...
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Twerk Thomson came in to promote Twerk Thomson Plays Unpopular Songs at
WWOZ earlier this year. Unpopular Songs is a different type of traditional
jazz album. Instead of polished and pristine, the cuts are gritty and
accompanied by the pops and hisses that give vinyl record...
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1 Back To Africa Winston Curtis 02:18
Instrumental Explosion
2 Peaceful Dream Mavis Staples 03:21 If All I Was
Was Black
3 The Warning Roy Tyler & New Directions 03:52
Three Way Calling
4 That Did It Bobby "Blue" Bland...
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1) Tipitina's is celebrating 40 years this weekend with two fantastic
shows-- "A Neville Family Groove: Celebrating 40 Years of Music at
Tipitina's with the First Family of Funk" on Friday, November 24 and "The
Funkin' Truth: Celebrating 40 Years of Music at Tipitina's with...
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More to enjoy from the 1978 Jazz Festival in Nice, France. Here's Professor
Longhair's set from June 16. James Booker also performed that day. We
featured his set last week (link below).
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It's Dr. John Day in New Orleans! The Night Tripper celebrates his 77th
birthday today. Check out this hourlong performance from 1974 featuring the
man of the hour, plus Professor Longhair, Earl King, The Meters, and more. So
good!
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Dr. John is 77 on November 21 and, this year, the New Orleans City Council
declared his birthday Dr. John Day in New Orleans! Best wishes to Mac on his
77th.
Earlier this month, he told nola.com, "76 was great and 77 is going to be
greater."
He'll be playing two concerts ...
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It's a big weekend at Tipitina's as the famed venue hosts "A Neville Family
Groove: Celebrating 40 Years of Music at Tipitina's with the First Family of
Funk" on Friday, November 24 and "The Funkin' Truth: Celebrating 40 Years of
Music at Tipitina's with Grammy Lifetime Awa...
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Ani DiFranco is closing out her tour supporting her latest
record, Binary, at House of Blues on Sunday, November 19. Check out her
performance at WWOZ from August below! For more on Ani, check out this recent
article from Keith Spera in The Advocate.
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