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POSITIVELY ALIVE, my new book of images

Mon, 04/02/12

Authored by:  Michael Dominici

POSITIVELY ALIVE is my new book of images on www.blurb.com -the book is available as an ebook, a softcover or hardcover copy as well on a print to order basis. Thanks, Michael Dominici http://www.blurb.com/my/dashboard some of these images are included, many more or not. Read more

Zydeco and New Orleans Blues documentaries tonight on Kitchen Sink

Tue, 03/27/12

Authored by:  David Kunian

Tonight, the Tone Scientists and Radio Wave Commanders of the Kitchen Sink will play, for your listening pleasure and education, two documentaries by producers extrordinaire and friends of WWOZ, The Y and the Z of documentary radio, Barry Yeoman and Richard Ziglar.   First,... Read more

The Beat

Sat, 03/24/12

Authored by:  Jamie Dell'Apa

Think of a frenetic jazz piece with the counter-point of a steady, unfazed tap dancer's sound.  It's the musical equivalent of social "coolness."   In the 1950s to 1970's music we focus on every Saturday from midnight to Sunday 3am, this sound evolved from the hoofers to dru... Read more

Tony Fitzpatrick in the Studio

Lynne Arriale to Visit Jazz from the Market

Wed, 03/21/12

Authored by:  Jelly Roll Justice

  Brilliant pianist, composer and educator Lynne Arriale will be on air talking about her latest album this Thursday (March 22nd, 2012) at 4:30 on Jazz from the French Market. After the interview, she will be heading up Frenchmen to Snug Harbor to get ready for her gig the ... Read more

New Orleans musicians -- on tuba, drums and trombone, Joshua Brown

Sun, 03/11/12

Authored by:  Raymond Kent

    You wouldn’t know it to watch him bouncing ever so slightly when he plays tuba, providing the bass lines, sometimes nearly hidden in the unlit back part of the stage behind the reed and brass of the Lagniappe Brass Band – or when the reed and brass line parts like the R... Read more

What radio could be - the Firesign Theatre.

Sat, 03/10/12

Authored by:  Jamie Dell'Apa

  From NY Times, March 9th   By PAUL VITELLO Peter Bergman, a founding member of the surrealist comedy troupe Firesign Theater, whose albums became cult favorites among college students in the late 1960s and ’70s for a brand of sly, multilayered satire so dense it seem... Read more

Michael Dominici's camera.

Tue, 03/06/12

Authored by:  Michael Dominici

I take my camera mostly everywhere. It takes pictures. These are some of those pictures. Read more

Bards of Bywater Tribute To LEONARD COHEN

Mon, 03/05/12

Authored by:  Michael Dominici

Greetings Music Lovers, My name is Michael Dominici and I've been a volunteer with WWOZ since 1996. As a native New Orleanian and a life long music lover, I've had a chance to experience a lot of great music in this town. Still, every once in a while I get caught off guard ... Read more

Louisiana Music Factory Celebrates 20th Anniversary

Mon, 02/27/12

Authored by:  Sally Young

Louisiana Music Factory celebrated its 20th anniversary on Saturday, February 25th. The record store that has become a destination for music lovers from New Orleans and around the world hosted six hours of in-store performances to a full house of fans. Kermit Ruffins kicked... Read more