We open tonight's show with a sample of the 1891 recording of the song “Thompson’s Old Gray Mule” from Louis Vasnier, followed by early, early recordings from the Original Dixieland Jass Band, and Joe King Oliver. Set #2 It’s Louis Prima, The Wild Magnolias, Dr. John, Irma Thomas, and John Boutte. Set #3 It’s all Harry Connick, Jr. Listen 

Happy Holidays everybody! Tonight’s 1st set opens and closes with Louis Armstrong, with greats in between including Kid Ory, Lionel Ferbos, Lizzy Miles, and Jelly Roll Morton. Set #2 features Clarence Gatemouth Brown, Aaron Neville, The Neville Brothers, Allen Toussaint, and Irma Thomas. Set #3 Ellis Marsalis, Nicholas Payton, Harry Connick Jr., and Jon Batiste. Listen

Tonight it’s Piano Night, broadcast on Monday, 27 May 2024, inspired by The Piano Night held every year in New Orleans, a separate event during the NO Jazz and Heritage Festival that’s the flagship fundraiser for New Orleans’s radio station WWOZ.  In our 1st set, we’ll hear from Sweet Emma Barrett, Jelly Roll Morton, and Professor Longhair;  Set #2: Fats Domino, James Booker, Henry Bulter, Huey Piano Smith, and Dr John; Set 3: Allen Toussaint, Ellis Marsalis Jr., Harry Connick Jr., and Jon Batiste. Listen

Happy New Year! Louis Armstrong kicks things off, followed by Oscar “Papa” Celestine, Henry Red Allen Jr., Bunk Johnson, and Sidney Bechet. Set #2 features Dave Bartholomew, Buckwheat Zydeco, followed by Fats Domino, Mr. Earl King, Dr. John, and Sean Ardoin. Set # 3 it’s Tank and the Bangas, Lil Queenie, Ivan Neville, and Ledisi. Listen    

Happy New Year Everybody!

Tonight’s show features three amazing artists, an artist in their respective genres . . . 

In our 1st set it’s Edward “Kid” Ory, Set #2 New Orleans favorite song, Jimmy Buffett and in Set #3 the great New Orleans-born drummer and bandleader Idris Muhammad. Listen

 It’s Carnival Time! First up on tonight’s show, a tribute to a “French National Treasure”, Martial Solal, the French-born, Algerian-Parisian pianist, composer, and bandleader who died in December 2024, with the help of a legendry New Orleans-born jazz pioneer, the immortal clarinetist, saxophonist, and bandleader, Sidney Bechet, then it set #2 it’s it’s the Lost Bayou Ramblers and the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, and in set #3 The Rumble. Listen 

Broadcast on 19 August 2024. 

Tonight, something we’ve done a couple of times on past shows, feature New Orleans-born modern contemporary jazz artists performing early traditional jazz songs, some standards, and all classics . . . featuring Allen Toussaint, Dr. Michael White, Wynton Marsalis, Kermit Ruffins, The Olympia Brass Band featuring Donald Harrison Jr. and Terence Blanchard, Nicholas Payton, Dr. John, Trombone Shorty, Branford, and Ellis Marsalis. Listen  

We open tonight’s show with King Oliver & His Orchestra, followed by Bunk Johnson, a nice piece on Blu Lu Barker, then Sidney Bechet, and The Duke with The Mooche: Duke Ellington and His Orchestra with Barney Bigard, and Lonnie Johnson in the band. Set #2: Louis Prima with Wingy Manone, Aaron Neville, Earl King, Huey Piano Smith, Professor Longhair, and Allen Toussaint. Set #3: Joy Clark, The Soul Rebels, Jamal Batiste, and PJ Morton. Listen 

 On tonight’s show, the first set is all Wingy Manone. In Set #2 it’s all about The Nevilles-- brothers Art, Aaron, then with Charles and Cyril in The Neville Brothers, and Aaron’s son Ivan with Cyril. We’ll hear from Charmaine next week. Then in Set #3, it’s all Jon Batiste with select songs from his score from the movie Saturday Night. Listen  

On tonight’s show, set #1 is all Louis Armstrong. Set #2 features Irma Thomas, Lillian Boutte with The  Maryland Jazz Band of Cologne (Germany), Lynn Drury, Amanda Shaw, and Leigh Harris. Set #3: Jon Batiste, Tank and the Bangas, Galactic, and James Andrews and Trombone Shorty Brothers, along with Donald Harrison Jr., Dr. John, Mark Brooks, and Stanton Moore. Listen

Tonight’s show opens with Joe King Oliver, followed by Sweet Emma Barrett, Lonnie Johnson, Sidney Bechet, Louis Armstrong, and Henry Red Allen Jr. with Ben Webster. Set #2 it’s the Dixie Cups, Roy Brown, Earl King, Lee Dorsey, and The Charmaine Neville Band. Set #3: Kelly Love Jones, Nicholas Payton, Ledisi, and Davell Crawford. Listen