“We’re gonna go back in the alley and play some low down blues,” Brown Sugar tells WWOZ listeners. She’s been sweet talking New Orleans that way for years.
New Orleans Features
On The Record: Find Your Favorite Music in Local Stores
You’re bound to hear something at the Jazz Fest that’s out of blue and out of this world. Local music stores and record labels can help you take it all back home. Besides carrying CDs by local artists on smaller independent labels, several feature them in in-store performances in the mornings or evenings when there [...]
Blow by Blow
New Orleans’ long line of trumpeters carry on a rich jazz tradition.
Throughout the first century of jazz, New Orleans produced many amazing musicians. Louis Armstrong became the city and jazz’s first great ambassador. Entering jazz’s second century, many talented trumpeters are following in his footsteps.
It is nearly impossible to overstate the drama of Armstrong’s miraculous [...]
Louis Armstrong
Louis Armstrong: Born on the Fourth of July
If there’s a silver lining to the cloud of confusion surrounding Louis Armstrong’s birth, it’s that jazz enthusiasts got to celebrate it for a full year, says Bruce Boyd Raeburn, curator of Tulane University’s William Ranson Hogan Jazz Archive.
“And Pops deserves it anyway,” he says.
Armstrong said he was [...]