Here's the Kenny Garrett Quartet performing "Wiggins", a tribute to Garrett's high school music teacher, shot live for the French radio network RTL (formerly Radio Luxembourg). Or, en francais: Wiggins en live dans l'Heure du Jazz RTL présentée par Jean-Yves Chaperon. The K... Read more

In this short interview from Yeah You Right Music's YouTube channel, Davis Rogan narrates a tour of some great brass band art inside a historic building in Treme, formerly the Acme Hardware & Stove Repair Company, and the building in which Rebirth first started practicing.   Read more

2010   A crowd streamed into the deserted West Bank neighborhood bar that I was using as a library for a quiet read.  They brought their dogs and an AA meeting's worth of lit cigarettes.  It was as if the bar's quiet was transformed into a Fellini movie soundtrack with dogs... Read more

Have fun and be safe this New Year's Eve, y'all. To mark the occasion, here's Los Lobos covering a swamp pop classic: "I Got Loaded".     And a little holiday lagniappe: the original version of "I Got Loaded" by Lil Bob & the Lollipops, released on the La Louisianne label i... Read more

"Tiny Desk Concerts" are intimate video performances, recorded live in NPR Music's Washington offices. This one, just published last Friday, is by the Preservation Hall Jazz Band; it lasts around 20 minutes. Per Bob Boilen, at whose desk these events happen: the "Preservatio... Read more

This week, we welcome in the New Year with a visit to the Contemporary Arts Center for some live music performed by the Southern troubadour Tab Benoit and his Swampland Jam. We also dig into some Falsomagro, an Italian dish of rolled meat stuffed with assortment of deliciousne... Read more

Kwanzaa 2013 began on Thursday, December 26 and ends on Wednesday, January 1. Here's singular take on "When the Saints Go Marching In," played on saxophone and accompanied by a lone precussionist and dancers, by the OsunDara Yorùbá Dance Theater, from last year's Kwanzaa Cel... Read more

Join Brice Nice and Alski for another musical showdown. As usual the only rule is staying in the groove. Read more

The great Walter 'Wolfman' Washington just celebrated his 70th Birthday, so we're jumping in the car with him for an hour of not just music but also a road trip to a local clothing store. Tune in as we drive and talk about where he got his style, shoes, and his music mentor... Read more