New Orleans Jazz & Blues Festival

New Orleans Jazz Fest: Piano Fest Highlights 2011

Tue, 01 May 2012 02:00:00 +0000

Airs Monday, April 30 at 9:00 p.m. Piano Night: We look back on a night that honored the 88’s. Piano Night - every year on the Monday night between the two weekends of the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage and Festival. This hour-long program includes music from Piano Heaven, a smaller stage for more intimate performances (Jessie McBride, Marco Benevento, Cynthia Chen) as well as the main stage at the House of Blues (Dr. Lonnie Smith, Victor Atkins, Bob Andrews, Tom Worrell), featuring full ensembles that change throughout the show.

New Orleans Jazz Fest: Highlights from 2011

Sun, 22 Apr 2012 02:00:00 +0000

Airs Monday, April 23 at 9:00 p.m. Blues: A hour of the sacred and the secular at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival 2011, featuring the harmonica of Charlie Musselwhite, the blazing guitar of Alvin 'Youngblood' Heart, Ruthie Foster's blues and gospel and many others (Robert Cray, Mahalia Jackson Tribute).

New Orleans Jazz Fest: Highlights from 2011

Sun, 15 Apr 2012 02:00:00 +0000

Airs Monday, April 16 at 9:00 p.m. Jazz with a modern vibe on one side with some far reaching orchestrations on the other. John Boutte performs a Leonard Cohen song. Nicholas Payton stretches his sound into yet another direction. Leroy Jones performs a song heralding the spirit of Carnival in New Orleans. The Delfeayo Marsalis Uptown Orchestra takes on the compositions of Armstrong as well as Ellington. And finally, the Mingus Big Band turns a song originally only on piano into a giant work.

New Orleans Jazz Fest: Highlights from 2011

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 02:00:00 +0000

Airs Monday, April 9 at 9:00 p.m. Some of the magical moments that WWOZ recorded during the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival in 2011. We spend the whole hour in the Jazz tent listening to ensembles visiting the city (Stefon Harris, Anat Cohen) as well as some hard-hitting local musicians (Baritone Bliss, Derek Douget, Stanton Moore Trio, New Orleans Klezmer) who take it to a place only possible in New Orleans.