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Burn Sandmel Burn! Ernie K-Doe: The R&B Emperor of New Orleans Book Release Party April 11!

Sat, 04/07/12

Authored by:  A.J. Rodrigue (Boudin Man)

Book release party April 11! Join Ben for his book release party Wednesday, April 11, from 6 to 8 p.m., at 533 Royal Street. Karen Celestan will interview Ben Sandmel about K-Doe and the book. Sales and pre-order pickups begin at 9:30 a.m. at The Shop at The Collection. ... Read more

Sun Ra Documentary

Fri, 04/06/12

Authored by:  Jamie Dell'Apa

Finally, a documentary that rises to quality of the elusive muse that was Sun Ra.  With insights from former WWOZ show host John Sinclair and sometimes New Orleans resident, Michael Ray.     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqZHzpAYVIk&feature=relmfu  Read more

It's that time of year - ASCENSION!

Tue, 04/03/12

Authored by:  David Kunian

In honor of the late great Don "Big Moose" Jamison and in honor of everyone celebrating Easter and any excuse to play this is a good one... The Tone Scientists and Sound Chemists and Vibration Physicists of the Kitchen Sink will bring you the epic avant garde free jazz sounds... Read more

POSITIVELY ALIVE, my new book of images

Mon, 04/02/12

Authored by:  Michael Dominici

POSITIVELY ALIVE is my new book of images on www.blurb.com -the book is available as an ebook, a softcover or hardcover copy as well on a print to order basis. Thanks, Michael Dominici http://www.blurb.com/my/dashboard some of these images are included, many more or not. Read more

Zydeco and New Orleans Blues documentaries tonight on Kitchen Sink

Tue, 03/27/12

Authored by:  David Kunian

Tonight, the Tone Scientists and Radio Wave Commanders of the Kitchen Sink will play, for your listening pleasure and education, two documentaries by producers extrordinaire and friends of WWOZ, The Y and the Z of documentary radio, Barry Yeoman and Richard Ziglar.   First,... Read more

The Beat

Sat, 03/24/12

Authored by:  Jamie Dell'Apa

Think of a frenetic jazz piece with the counter-point of a steady, unfazed tap dancer's sound.  It's the musical equivalent of social "coolness."   In the 1950s to 1970's music we focus on every Saturday from midnight to Sunday 3am, this sound evolved from the hoofers to dru... Read more

Tony Fitzpatrick in the Studio

Lynne Arriale to Visit Jazz from the Market

Wed, 03/21/12

Authored by:  Jelly Roll Justice

  Brilliant pianist, composer and educator Lynne Arriale will be on air talking about her latest album this Thursday (March 22nd, 2012) at 4:30 on Jazz from the French Market. After the interview, she will be heading up Frenchmen to Snug Harbor to get ready for her gig the ... Read more

New Orleans musicians -- on tuba, drums and trombone, Joshua Brown

Sun, 03/11/12

Authored by:  Raymond Kent

    You wouldn’t know it to watch him bouncing ever so slightly when he plays tuba, providing the bass lines, sometimes nearly hidden in the unlit back part of the stage behind the reed and brass of the Lagniappe Brass Band – or when the reed and brass line parts like the R... Read more

What radio could be - the Firesign Theatre.

Sat, 03/10/12

Authored by:  Jamie Dell'Apa

  From NY Times, March 9th   By PAUL VITELLO Peter Bergman, a founding member of the surrealist comedy troupe Firesign Theater, whose albums became cult favorites among college students in the late 1960s and ’70s for a brand of sly, multilayered satire so dense it seem... Read more