WWOZ New Orleans 90.7 FM : New Orleans' Jazz & Heritage Station : Dedicated to Bringing New Orleans Music to the Universe (2024)

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WWOZ New Orleans 90.7 FM.

WWOZ is thrilled to announce that our beloved station is relocating and will occupy the entire top (fifth) floor of The Jax Brewery Millhouse building located at 600 Decatur Street.

Each ethnic group in New Orleans contributed to the very active musical environment in the city, and in this way to the development of early jazz. A well-known example of early ethnic influences significant to the origins of jazz is the African dance and drumming tradition, which was documented in New Orleans.

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It is owned by the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation.

New Orleans is the birthplace of jazz, the city of Buddy Bolden, Jelly Roll Morton, Sidney Bechet, Louis Armstrong, Louis Prima, Pete Fountain, Harry Connick, Jr. and the Marsalis family.

WWOZ 90.7 FM is the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Station, a community radio station currently operating out of the French Quarter in New Orleans.

Jazz Fest is held at the Fair Grounds Race Course in the Gentilly neighborhood.

some of the most known jazz greats from New Orleans include Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Pete Fountain, Wynton and Ellis Marsalis, Harry Connick Jr., Kermit Ruffins, Danny Barker, Trombone Shorty, and Jeremy Davenport to name a few.

Buddy Bolden is considered the father of jazz music. Bolden was born in 1877 in New Orleans. Bolden was an African American band leader and a musician who played the cornet.

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New Orleans is the birthplace of jazz. Learn about the rich history of the area's famous jazz musicians and their continuing influence on jazz in New Orleans and the rest of the world. Listen to legends at Preservation Hall. Dive deep into the history of jazz at the New Orleans Jazz Museum.

WTIX 94.3 FM's heritage call letters originate from the legendary Top 40 AM station WTIX 690 AM, “The Mighty 690.” WTIX 690 AM New Orleans dominated the airwaves from the 1950s into the 1980s as America's first Top 40 radio station, and the FM station debuted initially as its sister station in 1995.

The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation is the nonprofit that owns the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival presented by Shell.

The annual New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, first held in Congo Square in 1970, now draws close to a half million attendees to the festival grounds. Hear every music genre from jazz and gospel, to r&b and rock from the multiple stages throughout the Fair Grounds.

New Orleans Public Radio broadcasts local and NPR news and cultural programming on WWNO 89.9 FM and on KTLN 90.5 FM in the Houma-Thibodaux area. You can hear 24-hour classical music on Classical 104.9 FM and WWNO HD2, and jazz on WWNO HD3.

WWOZ 90.7 FM is the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage community radio station.