If you answered "yes" the first thing you need to do is connect to WWOZ-FM. Discriminating listeners consider it to be the greatest radio station in the universe. They're not exaggerating. OZ is a community radio station (once upon a time we had one in Yellow Springs) devoted to promoting the cultural heritage of the Big Easy. OZ's volunteer radio hosts (many are NOLA musicians) play jazz, blues, R&B, and every other kind of New Orleans music… which means almost every other kind of music, period.

If you answered "no" you haven't really lived!

Lovers of New Orleans music mourn the untimely passing of Anthony "Tuba Fats" Lacen on January 11, 2004. If you've visited the Big Easy and listened to live jazz, odds are you've heard Tuba Fats. He was a mainstay of the city's best-known jazz venues, including Preservation Hall and Jackson Square. The first time I heard him on the Square, I knew I had found the True Source of Jazz in the city where it was born. It was in the air, everywhere, echoing off the cobblestones, resounding to the spires of St. Louis Cathedral. "I don't need to be a millionaire. If I want to play on the street, that's my business. We're not beggars, we're not homeless," Tuba Fats said in a 2000 interview in Offbeat Magazine. "I play in Jackson Square and I do it because peoples love music and I love to see peoples enjoy music. People come to New Orleans to hear the music and they don't get it up and down Bourbon Street. It's not there anymore." Tuba believed there was something about New Orleans street music that would never die. Let's hope and pray!