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New Orleans Jazz Banjo/Guitarist Danny Barker & American Routes Live with Detroit Brooks and his Syncopated Percolators New Orleans Jazz Banjo/Guitarist Danny Barker & American Routes Live with Detroit Brooks and his Syncopated Percolators September 27th, 2023 (Hour 1)
New Orleans Jazz Banjo/Guitarist Danny Barker & American Routes Live with Detroit Brooks and his Syncopated Percolators

New Orleans musician and raconteur Danny Barker was a banjo and guitar hero—a major player in New York jazz who never forgot his French Creole roots in song and style. We look back on Danny’s career, his life with wife and collaborator, the singer Blue Lu Barker, and his influence sustaining culture in the Crescent City. Then, current day guitar and banjo man, Detroit Brooks pays tribute to the Barker legacy with his band the Syncopated Percolators live at the New Orleans Jazz Museum.

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PIANO PEOPLE AND MORE: JASON MORAN & HEATH ALLEN

November 2nd, 2022

Jazz pianist Jason Moran started out in Houston playing classical music, but found his way to jazz through Thelonious Monk. We’ll learn more about his adventures in the NYC jazz scene. Then a conversation and tour around the piano with Philadelphia cabaret player and creator Heath Allen, plus music from Fats Waller, Jerry Lee Lewis, Herbie Hancock, and Sweet Emma.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Moran Tonk Circa 1936 Jason Moran
    Modernistic, Blue Note
  • Cane River Jimmy Witherspoon
    The Bluesville Years - Volume One: Big Blues Honks and Wails, Prestige/Fantasy
  • If You Love Me Like You Say Albert Collins
    Collins Mix, The Best of..., Virgin
  • Jelly Roll Charles Mingus
    Mingus Ah-Um, Columbia/Legacy
  • Dancers in Love Duke Ellington
    Piano Reflections, Capitol Jazz
  • Houston Jump Floyd Dixon
    Cow Town Blues: The Seminal 1948-1950, Ace
  • Instrumental: Chica Boo Lloyd Glenn
    Essential Blues Piano, HOB
  • SEGMENT: Jason Moran

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  • Dust My Brom Cassandra Wilson
    Loverly, Blue Note
  • Tou' Les Jours C'est Pas La Meme (Every Day Is Not the Same) Carol Fran
    Our New Orleans 2005: A Benefit Album, Nonesuch
  • Instrumental: Lutcher's Leap Nellie Lutcher
    Nelly Lutcher and Her Rhythm, Bear Family
  • Texas Woman Blues Taj Mahal
    The Essential Taj Mahal, Columbia/Legacy
  • Twin Guitar Boogie Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys
    For the Last Time, Liberty
  • Sweet Texas Rose Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown
    Down South in the Bayou Country, Sunnyside
  • Any-Kind-of-Man Victoria Spivey and Her Chicago Four
    Blues Master Vol. 11: Classic Blues Woman, Rhino
  • Old Man Blues Mose Allison
    Gimcracks and Gewgaws, Blue Note
  • Lucky Old Sun Sunny Lee Lewis
    Sun Classics, Charly
  • End Bed: Rock House Parts 1 & 2 Ray Charles
    The Birth of Soul, Atlantic

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: Smashin' Thirds Fats Waller
    At the Piano, BMG
  • Piano Man Billy Eckstine and Count Basie
    Basie/Eckstine, Inc, Roulette
  • Must Have Been the Devil Otis Spann
    The Blues Never Die, Blues Classics
  • Funny How Time Slips Away Dr. John
    Things Happen That Way, Rounder
  • Instrumental: Piano Roll Blues Little Willie Littlefield
    The Red One, Oldie Blues
  • Watermelon Man Herbie Hancock
    Takin' Off, Blue Note
  • St. Louis Blues Herbie Hancock and Stevie Wonder
    Gershwin's World, Verve
  • Ragged but Right Moon Mullican
    I'll Sail My Ship Alone, Gusto
  • I'll Sail My Ship Alone Linda Gail Lewis
    Moon and Stars, Valcour Records
  • Old Kidney Stew Eddie Vinson
    Kidney Stew Is Fine, Delmark
  • None of My Jelly Roll Sweet Emma Barrett
    Sweet Emma Barrett and her New Orleans Music, GHB Records
  • Gumbo Blues Smiley Lewis
    Presenting Smiley Lewis, Universal
  • Instrumental: Nowhere to Go Allen Toussaint
    The Wild Sounds of New Orleans, RCA Victor
  • SEGMENT: Heath Allen

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  • End Bed: My Blue Heaven Mary Lou Williams
    Black Christ of the Andes, Smithsonian Folkways

THE LATEST STREAMS

  • September 27th, 2023

    NEW ORLEANS JAZZ BANJO/GUITARIST DANNY BARKER & AMERICAN ROUTES LIVE WITH DETROIT BROOKS AND HIS SYNCOPATED PERCOLATORS

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