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WWOZ: Thirty Years of "Bringing New Orleans Music to the Universe"
by Wade Luquet
In a small office just off of the main studio, music director Scott Borne sits among stacks of boxes containing 25,000 CD's with a machine that picks up a CD from a stack, copies it and then digitizes it. The music from that CD will now be safely housed on a server in the second floor ...
Irvin Mayfield and the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra's "Book One" Nominated for a 2010 Grammy Award
IRVIN MAYFIELD AND THE NEW ORLEANS JAZZ ORCHESTRA'S “BOOK ONE" NOMINATED FOR A 2010 GRAMMY AWARD Debut CD features original compositions, confirming a Jazz renaissance in New Orleans! (NEW ORLEANS, LA -- The New Orleans Jazz Orchestra (NOJO) is proud to announce that BOOK ONE, its latest release on World Village, has been nominated for the ...
New Orleans Jazz Haunts
There are many wonderful things about New Orleans, and her native music, jazz, is one of the best. Here we celebrate life and death with jazz. Whether it's a jazz brunch on Sunday, a jazz band in a street parade, or a jazz funeral on Friday, there's always jazz to be heard in New Orleans. No ...
Love Session, Six Nights of Music, Six Nights of Giving- Irvin Mayfield Presents the Music of Los Hombres Calientes
CAN YOU FEEL THE LOVE NEW ORLEANS? NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA -- – Grammy nominee and Billboard Award winner Irvin Mayfield proudly announces a unique musical event that invites all New Orleanians to support their community. Coming to the Crescent City for one week only in August, will be the music of Los Hombres Calientes. Presented by ...
Unexpected Moments in New Orleans with Tom McDermott
by Wade Luquet
Tom McDermott Donna's New Orleans, LA July 2009 I love unexpected moments in New Orleans. The best thing about these moments is that they happen so often. New Orleans is often called “the biggest small town on earth." You just never know who you are going to meet or what ...
Marlon Jordan: Cooking-N-Jazz at Old Point Bar
Old Point Bar is very excited to have Marlon Jordan entertain our patrons on Saturday, July 4th from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Join Marlon as he serves Hot Jazz as well as a sizzling dish of Shrimp Creole made in the tradition of his family through several generations. Between sets, Marlon will spend time on ...
New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival 2009
by Gary Firstenberg
If you want to experience music as wide and as deep as the mighty Mississippi River, it is best to go right to the source. In the lush surroundings of the oldest horse racing track in The Big Easy, the 40th Annual New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival celebrated a diverse assortment of music, and provided ...
2009 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
by Joel A. Siegel
The 2009 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival marked the return of pre-Katrina level attendance. Despite the national recession, the festival announced sales of more than 400,000 tickets for the seven-day event over two weekends. As usual, producer Quint Davis did a masterful job blending the various musical components, including New Orleans jazz, national jazz acts, ...
Michael Arnone's 20th Anniversary Crawfish Festival: New Orleans Comes to New Jersey
by Wade Luquet
Michael Arnone's Crawfish FestivalAugusta, New JerseyMay 30th and 31, 2009 As a native New Orleanian expatriated over 20 years ago by my Pennsylvania-born wife, I am constantly looking for ways to connect to the mother land. What most of us who have moved away miss the most, besides the people, is the food ...
