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Recording New Orleans: Basin Street Records with Jon Cleary & Kermit Ruffins Recording New Orleans: Basin Street Records with Jon Cleary & Kermit Ruffins July 6th, 2022 (Hour 1)
Recording New Orleans: Basin Street Records with Jon Cleary & Kermit Ruffins

New Orleans’ own Basin Street Records is a homegrown record label featuring superstars of the local sound like the Rebirth Brass Band, Davell Crawford, Jason Marsalis and Kermit Ruffins. The label got its start with a live recording of Kermit’s band at the Uptown club Tipitina’s in 1997. Now, over two decades later and several Grammy Awards under its belt, Basin Street Records still holds true to the sounds of New Orleans. We talk with Basin Street founder Mark Samuels about the label’s history. We listen in on the artists who call it home, including Jon Cleary, whose “Quarantini Sessions” streamed live from his Funk Headquarters in the 9th Ward and helped us get through these challenging times. Then, a live concert and conversation with Kermit Ruffins & the Barbecue Swingers from Esplanade Studios in the Historic Treme neighborhood of New Orleans.

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SANTANA SPEAKS: WITH CELIA CRUZ, TITO PUENTE, AND LOS LOBOS

June 3rd, 2020

Carlos Santana speaks about playing music from the streets of Tijuana to the stage at Woodstock, launching his career in San Francisco, and his hopes for a global society explored on his new album Africa Speaks. We’ll hear from the late Tito Puente, el Rey de los Timbales, who tells about the roots of tropical Latin jazz in Spanish Harlem and how he brought his instrument, the timbales, to the foreground by moving them from the back to the front of the stage. Steve Berlin and Cesar Rosas from Los Lobos talk about their mix of American pop and Mexican traditions, and we remember Celia Cruz, la Reina de Cuba, who we spoke to in 2001 about her musical beginnings in her beloved homeland, Cuba.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Batuka Santana
    Santana III, Columbia
  • SEGMENT: Santana

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  • Bessie's Blues John Coltrane Quartet
    John Coltrane: The Impulse Story, Impulse
  • This Little Girl of Mine Ray Charles
    The Ray Charles Story, Vol. 1, Atlantic
  • Instrumental: Afro Blue Mongo Santamaria
    Afro Roots, Fantasy
  • SEGMENT: Santana, part 2

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  • Corazon Espinado Santana feat. Mana
    Supernatural, Arista
  • Instrumental: Adobo Criollo Mongo Santamaria
    Mongo '70, Atlantic Records
  • Breaking Down the Door Santana with Buika
    Africa Speaks, Concord
  • Mi nina Lola Buika
    Mi nina Lola, Dro Atlantic, S.A.
  • SEGMENT: Santana, part 3

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  • Song of the Wind Santana
    Caravanserai, Columbia
  • Black Magic Woman Santana
    Abraxas, Columbia
  • End Bed: Naima Carlos Santana & Mahavishnu John McLaughlin
    Love, Devotion and Surrender, Columbia

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: El Cayuco Tito Puente
    Dance Mania, Vol. 1, BMG
  • SEGMENT: Tito Puente

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  • Okiedoke Machito & his Orchestra featuring Charlie Parker
    The Original Mambo Kings-Afro-Cubop, Verve
  • La Guaranchera Celia Cruz with Tito Puente
    Fania Classics: Celia Cruz & Tito Puente, Fania Records
  • Instrumental: Our Day Will Come Willie Bobo
    Spanish Grease, Verve
  • SEGMENT: Celia Cruz

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  • Descarga Cachao Cachao
    Cachao Master Sessions, Vol. 1, Sony
  • Las Caras Lindas Flor de Toloache with Pedrito Martinez
    Las Caras Lindas, Chulo Records
  • La Bamba Los Pregoneros del Puerto
    Music of Veracruz: The Sones Jarochos of Los Pregoneros del Puerto, Rounder
  • Instrumental: Mariachi Suite Los Lobos
    El Cancionero Mas y Mas, Rhino
  • SEGMENT: Los Lobos

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  • One Time One Night Los Lobos
    By the Light of the Moon, Slash/Warner Brothers
  • Mexico Americano Los Texmaniacs
    Cruzando Borders, Smithsonian Folkways
  • Across the Borderline Freddy Fender
    Freddy Fender: The Golden Voice of the Texas Gulf Coast, Gazell Records
  • Closing Bed: Viva Seguin Don Santiago Jimenez, Sr.
    Viva Seguin: Tejano Conjunto Pioneer's Original Hits: 1947-1951, Arhoolie

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