Friday, April 09, 2010

French Quarter Festival on WWOZ, Fri, 4/9

I listened to the French Quarter Festival on WWOZ today. WWOZ did a
good job. The mixes were excellent. (I REALLY hope that continues
through Jazz Fest.) The DJs weren't obnoxious. They didn't give out
station IDs too often until Keith Hill gave one 5 minutes after
another at 9:25 pm (NY time). The music isn't that interesting and
probably won't be all weekend but I'll try to listen to as much of it
as I can.

The audio is dropping out abit. The stream is fine but we're losing
audio often enough. Once per song on average, starting with Russell
Batiste.

Musically, Ensemble Fatien was borderline interesting, especially
their version of St James Infirmary. Russell Batiste is kinda awful
with his covers though Jealous Huy was interesting. I'm not holding
out high hopes for the rest of his set once they get the feed back
but I'll hang in there to see.

Ok, they're back. Something then Feel Like Making Love with some
awful singing. Some more crap then it ends. Good.

Tomorrow?