Marcus Roberts took time from his teaching young musicians at UNO and
performing at The Sandbar (Wednesday, April 15th) and Snug Harbor (Thursday,
April 16th), to stop by WWOZ and talk about his new CD "New Orleans Meets
Harlam, Volume 1".
This generous genius was incredib...
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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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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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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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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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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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Tune into Jazz Lunatique with host David Kunian to hear the fearsome
Revolutionary Snake Ensemble at midnight. The sounds of Sun Ra combined with
a second line band, the Revolutionary Snake Ensemble hails from
Massachusetts.
This is their warm-up gig for their Thursday ni...
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The movie, The Watchmen, will be released the first week of March and it is
begging for a special show to celebrate this treatment of the only book I've
ever read. (Liked it so much I read it thousands of times - didn't have time
left for other books.)
So how do you creat...
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