The brilliant Badal Roy will visit WWOZ on Thursday March 18th for an
interview with Jelly Roll Justice on Jazz from the Market.
The acclaimed tabla genius will be in the Crescent City for several
performances and teaching workshops from Tuesday through Saturday of that
we...
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Welcome to the Jungle Why are there so many songs about the "jungle?"
Hundreds of songs from country and western to disco and every style in
between. Jungle songs? Imagine oooga boogas, oongowas, monkey and elephant
noises and way too many Tarzan yells all put to music. ...
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What a wonderful show today. It was fortunate that I had the studio set when
Tab Benoit came in late on George's show so we could bring him to you in best
form. I really enjoyed engineering that set and can't wait to listen to the
recording. Crossroad got about a 15 minute ...
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For tomorrow's "Sittin' At The Crossroad" my friend Big Daddy O' will join me
for the whole show and play some music for us LIVE. My other guest had to
cancel due to 'work', she's a movie star too. Olga will join me in two weeks
for a live set.
For all of you who join or r...
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Having just got back from the North Texas Irish Festival in Dallas, I have
never been so glad of what is commonly referred to as ‘New-Orleans-Time'.
I mean, don't get me wrong, it can be quite annoying when you find yourself
waiting in a bar until 9 PM for friends who swo...
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This Thursday Jason Moran, fabulous pianist and composer extraordinaire,
will stop by the studio before going on to Snug Harbor for his appearance
with the brilliant Herlin Riley.
This young Houston native now resides in Brooklyn and has played with
Cassandra Wilson, Stev...
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Bob Andrews has been in the music scene since the late 60s, taking part in UK
Pub Rock before going to produce a number of great records including "There
She Goes" by The Las. He made his way to New Orleans in the early 90s -
collaborating with everybody from Marva Wright t...
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Join us Wednesday March 3rd when the small hand on the clock is on ten and
the big hand is on twelve as we play at least two hours of the music of our
"Musical Heroes" Dave Bartholomew and Cosimo Matassa.
Dave Bartholomew and Cosimo Matassa and the 60th Anniversary of Fats ...
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Conference of the Birds Heavy D's Monday morning (6am to 9am) jazz show
usually starts with Dave Holland's Conference of the Birds. I hadn't heard
this piece since 1977 when my fellow deli workers discussed this piece
through an entire lunch rush. We were always looking ...
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The difficult thing about interviewing a musician in a car is that, sooner or
later, someone will insist in trying to reverse park in front of your
stationary vehicle and, after getting all kinds of annoyed, will completely
derail your interviewee’s train of thought. Of co...
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