Past shows

Tonight’s show opens with Jimmy Noone, followed by Oscar Papa Celestin, The Preservation Hall Jazz Band, and Louis Armstrong. Set #2 features: Henry Butler, Allen Toussaint, Lee Dorsey, and Dr. John. Set 3: Nicholas Payton, Davell Crawford, Tank and the Bangas, and Kermit Ruffins. Listen

Opening tonight’s show, Jelly Roll Morton, followed by Joe King Oliver, Sidney Bechet, Pete Fountain, and Louis Armstrong. In Set #2, it’s Professor Longhair, Fats Domino, Ernie K-Doe, Johnny Adams, and Robert Parker. In Set #3: Ledisi, Preservation Brass-- the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, and Kyle Roussel. Listen

On World Cities Day 2025, observed on 31 Oct 2025, UNESCO (The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) designated 58 cities as new members of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network (UCCN), including New Orleans. 

New Orleans has officially been recognized as a UNESCO Creative City of Music, a distinction that honors its profound cultural legacy and far-reaching impact on global sound—from jazz and blues to bounce and rock and roll.

For New Orleans, the designation ensures that its unmistakable rhythm—its sound, soul, and spirit—will continue to resonate with future generations around the world.

On tonight’s show Ernest Punch Miller, Sweet Emma Barrett, Bunk Johnson, Jelly Roll Morton, Geroge Lewis, AND Louis Armstrong. Set #2 is dedicated to Marcia Ball and in Set #3: PJ Morton and Jon Batiste. Listen 

Tonight we open with Jelly Roll Morton, followed by Lizzie Miles, Sidney Bechet, and Louis Armstrong. Then it’s The Meters, Shirley and Lee, The Dixie Cups, Irma Thomas, Clarence Frogman Henry, and Huey Piano Smith. Finishing out this show: Stanton Moore, Galactic, and Water Seed. Listen 

Tonight we open the show with Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five, followed by Henry Red Allen and Kid Ory together, then it’s Sidney Bechet, and the Dirty Dozen Brass Band with Danny Barker and Eddie Bo. Set #2, it’s James Booker, Earl King, Allen Toussaint, and Walter Wolfman Washington. And in Set #3:

Nicholas Payton, Branford Marsalis, and Donald Harrison, Jr.  Listen  

Tonight’s show is all about the Zydeco. Honoring the Festival de Musique Acadienne A Creole, the annual three-day FREE Cajun and Zydeco music festival, in Lafayette, LA with a select group of artists that performed or were honoring at this year’s fest, starting with Zachary Richard, followed by Wayne Toups, CJ Chenier & the Red Hot Louisiana Band, Kevin Naquin & the Ossun Playboys, and Steve Riley & the Mamou Playboys. Then it’s a brief tribute to CJ Chenier and Buckwheat Zydeco, then it’s on to Corey Ledet Zydeco, Lil’ Nathan & The Zydeco Big Timers, Cedric Watson et Bijou Créole, and Geno Delafose & French Rockin’ Boogie closes the show. Listen

Opening the show tonight, Joe King Oliver, followed by Jimmie Noone, Freddie Keppard, Bunk Johnson, and Louis Armstrong. In Set #2, its all Fats Domino. And Set #3 features Ledisi, then the “power trio” of Nicholas Payton, bassist and singer Esperanza Spalding, and drummer and producer Karriem Riggins. Listen

Opening the NORMS tonight, Mahalia Jackson, followed by Bunk Johnson, Sidney Bechet, George Lewis, and Louis Armstrong. Set #2 it’s Professor Longhair, Luther Kent, Johnny Adams, and Dr. John. Set #3: Wynton Marsalis, Jon Batiste, Donald Harrison, Jr., and Galactic. Listen

On tonight’s show a playlist that captures and reflects on the City of New Orleans, and the devastating impact of Hurricane Katrina, then moves on to celebrate the city and along the way I’ll share with you a little of what I was both reminded and learned about the storm, twenty years after the storm; it’s impact, the, still ongoing recovery, and where New Orleans is today. Artists include: Terence Blanchard, Harry Connick Jr., Dr. John, Elis Costello and Allen Toussaint, Louis Armstrong, Delfeayo Marsalis, The Soul Rebels, and Lil Queenie and the Percolators. Listen

 Tonight, it’s The Marsalis’ . . . again, a rebroadcast  from 7 July 2025.  Father Ellis, and sons Branford, Wynton, Delfeayo, and Jason, a taste of each of their genius, starting with Father Ellis, the patriate of this incredibly talented musical family. The Marsalis family, together and individually, has made significant contributions to the preservation of jazz, the furthering of the art form, and the education of students of the music, leaving an important and distinctive mark on the world of jazz and this nation’s culture. Listen

New Dong Old

Originally 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