Past shows

Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra open the show followed by the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Sidney Bechet, and Danny Barker. Set #2 it’s Louis Prima, Allen Toussaint, Al Hirt, and the Charmaine Neville Band. Set #3:  Nickolas Payton, Donald Harrison, Jr., Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah, and The Rumble. Listen 

This Mardi Gras Eve show kicks off the A.J. Piron’s New Orleans Orchestra, followed by The Dukes of Dixieland, Louis Armstrong, The Hawkettes, and The Wild Magnolias. Set #2: Professor Longhair, James “Sugarboy” Crawford and His Cane Cutters, The Dixie Cups, Allen Toussaint, Roy Brown, and Buckwheat Zydeco Jr.  Set #3: The New Orleans Nightcrawlers, Delfeayo Marsalis and the Uptown Jazz Orchestra, The Rebirth Brass Band featuring Erica Falls, and Leigh Harris - Lil Queenie and the Percolators. 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

 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  

This show is a rebroadcast of the Mardi Gras show from Monday, 12 Feb 2024. 

 The show opens with Louis Armstrong, followed by Bunk Johnson, Joe King Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton, and Henry Red Allen Jr. with Coleman Hawkins. Set #2: Allen Toussaint, The Dixie Cups, Professor Longhair, Jesse Hill, The Meters, and The Wild Magnolias. Set #3: Cedric Watson & Cory Ledet, Treme Brass and Indian Band, Delfeayo Marsalis, Big Freedia, and Big Sam’s Funky Nation. Listen

Tonight’s show opens with two from Louis Armstrong, followed by Sidney Bechet, George Lewis, and then the Hawketts. Set #2 features Leroy Jones, Walter Wolfman Washington, Louis Prima, and Professor Longhair. Set #3: Jason Marsalis and Norbert Susemihi, Delfeayo Marsalis and the Uptown Jazz Orchestra, and Galactic with Irma Thomas. Listen 

We open tonight’s show with Joe King Oliver, followed by Freddie Keppard, Louis Armstrong, and The Southern Harps. Set #2 it’s Fats Domino, Eddie Bo, Ernie K-Doe, The Meters, Earl King, and Cubanismo. Set #3: Opens with new music from the Branford Marsalis Quartet, followed by Harry Connick Jr., and Delfeayo Marsalis and the Uptown Jazz Orchestra featuring Tonya Boyd-Cannon. Listen 

Bunk Johnson opens tonight’s show followed by Kid Ory, and Sidney Bechet. Set #2 it’s all Pierre Dewey LaFontaine Jr. better known as Pete Fountain, Mr. New Orleans. Set #3: Terence Blanchard, Donald Harrison, Jr., and Big Sam’s Funky Nation. Listen