Sometime after 11 PM on Tuesday, April 7, one of New Orleans hardest working
and best songwriters will come on to promote his new record, "How To Be A
Cannonball." He's famous for such songs as "It's Not the Years; It's the
Miles," "When I Make My Money," "Fine Ass Chemise...
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Just a quick hello to the listeners who noted my missing today's show. As you
all know we are all volunteers who do our shows for the love of the music. As
such most of us have another life that includes a "real" job. I am fortunate
to work for a company with a management t...
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Get ready for the third night of Don Cherry! Jazz Lunatique 4/1/09 at
midnight will feature an hour of Cherry's recordings with Ornette Coleman and
others. It will be the third week in a row we'll blow your mind with
Cherry's trumpet playing accompanied by his cohorts Orn...
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I just wanted folks to know that I am continuing to make available my 2009 Mardi Gras Indian Show with special guests John Sinclair, Second Chief David Montana and War Chief Juan Pardo. Three hours of Indian music and discussions of what makes this part of New Orleans culture ...
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Tonight on Jazz Lunatique: the second night of trumpeter Don Cherry. You
know and love him with Ornette Coleman, Sonny Rollins, Albert Ayler, and Old
and New Dreams. Tonight the complete 3 volumes of Don Cherry live in the
Cafe Montmartre in Copenhagen 1965 courtesy of th...
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Tonight on the Kitchen Sink, as a tribute to the Maharajah of New Orleans
Funk, we'll be playing the WWOZ Billy Delle Mardi Gras Special 1996 with
Eddie Bo. We may also do some of Eddie's more and less famous cuts. All
this will go down starting around 10 PM.
We miss you...
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Saturday the weather was nice and I decided to take in more live music in a single outing than I've done in quite a while. In retrospect this was actually great preparation for a couple of New Orleans Marathons that are scheduled over the next two months. No I'm not talking ab...
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Tune in this Wednesday March 18th at 10:00 p.m. for our very special guest
Mr. Clint Maedgen.
Clint will debut his new c.d. titled "Open Restraints" coming out with his
Plus 9 line-up featuring a lot of great players, including Stanton Moore and
Mike Dillon.
He is having ...
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Jazz Trombonist Slide Hampton drops in to the WWOZ studios to talk with
Charles Burchell about his Wednesday night appearance at the New Orleans
Center for Creative Arts. This NEA Jazz Masters Program is sponsored locally
by the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation, the C...
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Tonight on the Kitchen Sink in tribute to the late great Fird "Snooks"
Eaglin, the laboratory scientists will be cooking up a rare recording of
Snooks Eaglin live at the Chicago Blues Fest in 1989. Irving Charles and
Johnny V. accompany him throughout the set and special g...
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