Past shows

On tonight’s show, we will feature several select artists who performed at Jazz Fest over the 2nd weekend, which just wrapped up yesterday, Sunday, 4 May. The artists include Kim Che’re, Dr. Michael White, Mia Borders, Samantha Fish, Amanda Shaw & The Cute Guys, and Ingrid Lucia. Then it’s Mariachi Los Camperos, The Wailers featuring Julian Marley, Cedric Burnside, Eric Lindell, and Deacon John. Wrapping it up with Ledisi, Christone “Kingfish” Ingram, Patti LaBelle, and Kamasi Washington. Listen 

Tonight’s show is duet night, collaborations with three immortal New Orleans-born giants of music, featuring Louis Armstrong with Oscar Peterson and Louis Armstrong with Ella Fitzgerald. Then select tracks from The River In Reverse-- Elvis Costello and Allen Toussaint. In Set #3: Wynton Marsalis with Norah Jones, John Legend, and Willie Nelson. 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 Butler, Huey Piano Smith, and Dr. John; Set 3: Allen Toussaint, Ellis Marsalis Jr., Harry Connick Jr., and Jon Batiste. Listen

 Tonight’s 1st set features Bunk Johnson, Jelly Roll Morton, Kid Ory and Louis Armstrong. In our 2nd set, it’s Professor Longhair, James Booker, Dr. John with Double Trouble, Louis Prima, and Luther Kent. Set #3: Wynton Marsalis, The Soul Rebels, then our tribute to Roberta Flack with the piano stylings of Davell Crawford. Listen 

Opening tonight's show, A.J. Piron’s New Orleans Orchestra, followed by George Lewis, Sidney Bechet, and two from Louis Armstrong. In Set #2 it’s The Meters, Lee Dorsey, and Irma Thomas. Set 3# features Kermit Ruffins, Wynton Marsalis, and Dumpsterphunk. Listen  

Opening tonight’s show Jelly Roll Morton, Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers, followed by Johnny St. Cyr, then Sidney Bechet and Louis Armstrong. In Set #2 it’s Aaron Neville, Allen Toussaint, Irma Thomas, Dave Bartholomew, and Luther Kent. Set #3, new music with Mahmoud Chouki and George Porter. Jr. Listen 

On tonight’s show we’ll feature a song, not just any song, and not for the entire show, but six different versions of the song, two versions of the song in each respective set, of early traditional jazz, R&B, Rock n Roll, and Blues, and then in our contemporary/modern jazz set, that song, the iconic, the immortal St. James Infirmary. You’ll hear the song performed by Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five, Henry Red Allen with Coleman Hawkings, Allen Toussaint, Dr. John with Eddie Bo, Wynton Marsalis, and Sasha Masakowski and the Sidewalk Stutters. Along the way, also on tonight’s show, Joe King Oliver, Kid Ory, Willie Tee, The Meters, Wingy Manone, and Donald Harrison Jr. w/ Dr John and Terence Blanchard. 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 opened tonight’s show with Jelly Roll Morton, followed by Joe King Oliver, Blue Lu Barker, Sweet Emma Barret, and Louis Armstrong. Set #2 features The Meters, James Booker, Lee Dorsey, and Clarence Gatemouth Brown. In set #3 it’s Erica Falls and Irma Thomas with Galactic. Listen 

Tonight’s show opens with Joe King Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton, Bunk Johnson and Louis Armstrong. In Set #2, it’s Aaron Neville, Henry Butler & Steven Bernstein, Tommy Ridgley &   

Bobby Mitchell, and John Boutte. Set #3 features four artists on the bill at this year’s Jazz Fest, The Iguanas, Trombone Shorty, Nicholas Payton, and the Branford Marsalis Quartet. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Z5syNFen2mKdlG2n8pV-pCSQ42vH4gFC/view?usp=sharing

Tonight’s show opens with Lizzy Miles, followed by Sidney Bechet, Danny Barker, and Louis Armstrong. In Set #2 it’s The Meters, The Neville Brothers, The Radiators, and Walter Wolfman Washington. Set #3: John Boutte, Donald Harrison Jr., and Harry Connick Jr. Listen  

Tonight's show is the rebroadcast of the 27 May 2024 show.  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 Butler, Huey Piano Smith, and Dr. John; Set 3: Allen Toussaint, Ellis Marsalis Jr., Harry Connick Jr., and Jon Batiste. Listen