From a press release from Project Homecoming: Project Homecoming along with Tipitina’s Foundation and the United Way will dedicate the newly renovated family home of music legend Professor Longhair. The dedication will take place Friday, February 21, from 2:00-4:00 PM at 17... Read more

Chuck Perkins and WWOZ's Sally Young talk about some of the history of Storyville and Danny Barker's stories as well as Perkins being the "Poet-laureate" of New Orleans. Read more

Miles Weeks and WWOZ's Scott Borne talk about the latest CD by Weeks, "Sense of Self." Borne mentions the departure that this CD is compared to Weeks playing with Eric Lindell, Andrew Duhon, Colin Lake, and others. Weeks explains how the album is a "pouring-out" of things h... Read more

Clarence Johnson stopped by WWOZ and chatted with Scott Borne about Johnson's experience doing a jazz and gospel show on WWOZ right before Katrina, the "Fertile Crescent," his latest CD, and more. Read more

Victor Goines visits with WWOZ's Jelly Roll Justic; they talk about Goines' mentors at St. Augustine, the philosophy of improvisation, and more. Read more

George Porter tells WWOZ's Black Mold how he's recorded every performance and how he spends a lot of his free time listening to those shows to see if any new "licks" have come from it. They also chat about Porter's musical background with classical guitar, the original name... Read more

Here's nine red-hot minutes of Little Freddie King rocking a medieval fortification in France, beautifully shot and recorded by what we're told were "a group of film and audio students." C'est bon! The title "Incruste au Nancy Jazz Pulsations" means something along the lines... Read more

Two weeks until Fat Tuesday and counting. Here's a look back to Mardi Gras in the middle of the last century, with videos from 1956 and 1941. 1956. This video combines footage by an unknown shooter with a batch of excellent still photos taken by the late John W. Mizenko, fat... Read more

On this week’s program, we celebrate some of the musical and cultural families of New Orleans, featuring sets by Ellis and Jason Marsalis, Steve and Sasha Masakowski, Aaron and Ivan Neville, and the late Walter Payton and his son, Nicholas Payton. Holly Hawthorne of the wh... Read more