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New Orleans music in the station's playlist. This, in turn, gained the attention and influenced the programming of numerous record companies and album-oriented rock and jazz broadcast outlets through the United States. Jones also used Loyola's WLDC recording facilities in pioneering the taped oral history interviews of numerous New Orleans musicians from every period and style of New Orleans music. The William Ransom Hogan Jazz Archive at
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interviews with musicians while still in his teens. While earning a degree in Communications at Loyola, Jones was named Music Director of the university's radio station, WLDC and served from 1971-74. Frequently, Jones merged his broadcasting training with his musical historical expertise to promote
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as a place for Longhair to perform until his death in 1980. Jones co-authored the liner notes of Longhair's final original records, "Crawfish Fiesta." He was involved in the founding of New Orleans community radio station WWOZ-FM. He was also involved in the organization of "Piano Night," a
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Jones taught a popular and acclaimed course on the history of New Orleans Rhythm & Blues at University of New Orleans in the late 1980s. Jones also managed music publishing for
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celebration of piano originally presented at Tipitina's on the Monday following the first weekend of the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival as a benefit for the radio station.
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At his death, Jones was researching and writing a long-anticipated biography of the early life of Louis Armstrong. The book was said to be near completion when Jones died.
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Jones died unexpectedly on January 1, 2007, after an accidental fall outside his Uptown New Orleans home. He was interred in
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as General Manager of the band's Fishhead Music. He served as an original Program Organizer of New Orleans's
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and researcher. His extensive research is credited with definitively establishing and documenting
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Jones contributed significantly to fostering and researching American
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Thad Jones
Tad Jones (American football)
New Orleans, Louisiana
music historian
Louis Armstrong
New Orleans, Louisiana
Loyola University New Orleans
oral history
Tulane University
rhythm & blues
rock & roll
jazz
Tipitina's
Professor Longhair
The Radiators
Satchmo SummerFest
Up from the Cradle of Jazz
Jason Berry
Johnathan Foose
Metairie Cemetery
jazz funeral
"Louis Armstrong: Born On The Fourth Of July?"
OffBeat
Pelican Publishing Company
ISBN
978-1-4556-1952-8
"Sizing Up Satchmo SummerFest"
The Advocate
"New Orleans music icon Dr John dies at 77"
The Canberra Times

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