The newest installment of "Guardians of the Groove" (see below for more on the series) aired on WWL-TV last night (Jan 16). WWOZ's Jellyroll Justice talked with master teacher and legendary jazz singer Germaine Bazzle at Snug Harbor, about the origins of her singing style and ... Read more

Our favorite public station in Seattle posted this video the other day: Hurray for the Riff Raff performing live in the KEXP studio, recorded last October. It's a four-song set ("Look Out Mama", "The Body Electric", "Crash On The Highway", and "The New San Francisco Bay Blu... Read more

Glen David Andrews reworks Dr. John's "I Walk on Guilded Splinters" with Paul Sanchez on guitar. According to its YouTube post (by Come See About Me Productions), the video "was filmed over the course of several nights recording the tracks and through two live performances ... Read more

If you've got the time this weekend, here's a smoking hot, hour-and-ten-minutes-long concert by CJ Chenier and the Red Hot Louisiana Band. It was origninally webcast live on September 21, 2013, from the Potomac Atrium of the National Museum of the American Indian in Washing... Read more

Here's a blast of pure summer fun to cure your winter blues, from Louisiana Music Hall of Famers Dash Rip Rock. It's a south Lousiana party in a roots rock video, complete with boats, dogs, dacquiris, and bonfires.  And a guitarist-on-water skis. Says frontman Bill Davis, "... Read more

Carnival 2014 is underway!  Check out the gallery below for 6 beautiful shots from last night's Joan of Arc parade in the Quarter, the work of WWOZ volunteer photographer Ryan Hodgson-Rigsbee. Read more

The Hot 8 Brass Band performs "New Orleans" live at the 2012 Pickathon Pumphouse Sessions near Portland, Oregon. At Pickathon, the Indie-Roots Music festival, there's a 10x10 Pumphouse in the middle of the woods on the festival grounds at Pendarvis Farm. Dozens of acts reco... Read more

The recent video below by Shreveport native Maggie Koerner is the title track of her second album, Neutral Ground. It's her first video, as she tells Your Cousin Dimitri in this interview. It's beautifully produced, and at 9 minutes long, something of an epic. The Times-Pic... Read more

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