Arts Minister in Melbourne - Another Jazz Fest Fan   One of the great annual events for us at WWOZ is broadcasting live from the Jazz and Heritage Festival and sharing the music and the musicians with fans around the planet.   This year I was hoping that Heidi Victoria, a fa... Read more

We're two weeks from WWOZ's Piano Night at the House of Blues, a night which celebrates the New Orleans piano tradition. If you'd like to know more about that tradition, here are a couple of video introductions. The first is a lecture/performance by Tom McDermott (who's pla... Read more

Heads up about a really cool (and free) conference coming to town over the weekend of April 19-21. It's the EMP Pop Music Conference, and it brings together "academics, critics, performers, and dedicated fans in a rare collective discussion" about that thing we all love - m... Read more

New Orleans musicians and an auditorium full of appreciative fans of our music created a second line for Roger Ebert, the film critic and long time participant of the University of Colorado's Conference on World Affairs who passed away six days ago.  These photos were taken... Read more

WWOZ has an ongoing Music Project with KLSP-91.7 FM, the Angola Prison radio station where all the deejays are inmates. We are currently collecting quality CDs that we will deliver to Angola later this month. Find out more about this project and how you can help. Read more

On this week’s program, we preview the upcoming Jazz in the Park, a nine-week music and marketplace series, taking place in Armstrong Park. Running from April 18th to June 13th. During the hour, we also visit Cowbell, a restaurant in the River Bend section of New Orleans to t... Read more

Pasta all’Amatriciana is Marc Stone's contribution to That Sounds Good!, WWOZ's cookbook. This recipe reflects New Orleans' Italian heritage, coming from the town of Amatrice in central Italy. Read more

A lot of people around the radio station tease me about being the foreign language pronunciation patrol, which I don't mind, because learning foreign languages has been among the best journeys of my life.  Certainly I couldn't do the shows I do without them.  I recently com... Read more