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Blues and Jazz, African Roots and Branches with Shemekia Copeland & Balla Kouyaté Blues and Jazz, African Roots and Branches with Shemekia Copeland & Balla Kouyaté May 18th, 2022 (Hour 1)
Blues and Jazz, African Roots and Branches with Shemekia Copeland & Balla Kouyaté

It’s Blueswomen, Jazzmen, African roots and branches. Chicago blues singer Shemekia Copeland‘s father, the late blues guitarist Johnny Copeland, brought her into his music as a child. As an adult, she found new ways to use blues to express her perspective. We’ll hear from some of Shemekia’s heroes including Etta James, Ruth Brown, Alberta Hunter and Big Mama Thornton. Then a conversation and performance by Boston-based Mandinka balafon player Balla Kouyaté and music inspired by and from the continent of Africa from Randy Weston, Miriam Makeba and the Modern Jazz Quartet.

Shemekia Copeland photo by Mike White

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NURSERY RHYME BLUES: MUSIC BY, FOR AND ABOUT KIDS

September 12th, 2007

Rock the cradle, with music by, for and about kids—but hip enough for children of all ages. Swing Mother Goose in jazz, blues and country; plus animal tales in rock and funk. Join us for a visit to the Louis Armstrong Summer Jazz Camp and hear the next generation of New Orleans musicians. Also, The Imagination Movers drop by to talk about going from a birthday party conversation to the next big sensation in kids’ music.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Straight No Chaser live recording at Louis Armstrong Jazz Camp
  • Ya Ya Lee Dorsey
    Wheelin' and Dealin': The Definitive Collection, Arista
  • Lady Madonna Fats Domino
    Fats is Back, Bullseye
  • Rock 'n' Roll Simmon Tree Maggie Sue Wimberly
    Memphis Bells: The Women of Sun Records, Bear Family
  • Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner Kermit Ruffins
    New Orleans Playground, Putumayo Kids
  • The Muffin Man Ella Fitzgerald
    Jazz for Kids: Sing, Clap, Wiggle, and Shake, Verve
  • Instrumental: Cake Walking Babies Sidney Bechet
    Runnin' Wild, Blue Note
  • Shortening Bread Abner Jay
    recorded live at Folk Masters concert 1993,
  • Talkin' Guitar Doc Watson
    Sings Songs for Little Pickers - Live!, Alacazam!
  • Barnyard Dance Martin, Bogan and Armstrong
    Barnyard Dance, Rounder
  • Storybook Ball Jim Kweskin & the Jug Band
    Greatest Hits!, Vanguard
  • Nursery Rhyme Blues Merrill Moore
    Boogie My Blues Away, Bear Family
  • Oh! Susannah June Carter
    Keep on the Sunny Side: Her Life in Music, Columbia/Legacy
  • I've Been Working on the Railroad Johnny Cash
    The Legend, Columbia/Legacy
  • The Railroad Cars are Coming Dan Zanes
    Parades and Panoramas: 25 Songs Collected by Carl Sandburg, Festival Five
  • Instrumental: Skip To My Lou Peter Seeger, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee
    Washboard Band: Country Dance Music, Folkways
  • Skip to My Lou Lead Belly
    Sings For Children, Smithsonian Folkways
  • Brown Girl in the Ring Lord Invader
    Calypso in New York, Smithsonian Folkways
  • Children's Song (That Old Man) Thelonious Monk
    Monk, Columbia
  • SEGMENT: Louis Armstrong Jazz Camp

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HOUR two

  • Open Bed: When You Wish Upon a Star Dave Brubeck Quartet
    Dave Digs Disney, Columbia/Legacy
  • Mary Mack Lilly's Chapel School recorded by Harold Courlander
    Negro Folk Music of Alabama Vol.6: Ring Game Songs and Others, Folkways
  • Patty Cake, Patty Cake Fats Waller
    If You Got to Ask, You Ain't Got It!, Columbia/Legacy
  • School Days Dizzy Gillespie
    School Days, Savoy
  • Mockingbird Inez Foxx
    Island 40, Vol. 2: 1964-1969, Rhythm and Blues Beat, Island
  • Bo Diddley Bo Diddley
    His Best, Chess/MCA
  • Mr. Rabbit Paul Westerberg
    Stereo, Vagrant
  • Instrumental: "Fox Chase" Elizabeth Cotton
    Shake Sugaree, Smithsonian Folkways
  • Mouse on the Hill Warner Williams
    Blues Highway, Smithsonian Folkways
  • Polly Wolly Doodle Leon Redbone
    Folk Playground, Putumayo Kids
  • Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah (Song of the South) Louis Armstrong
    Disney Songs the Satchmo Way, Walt Disney
  • Yes! We Have No Bananas Louis Prima
    Jazz for Kids: Sing, Clap, Wiggle, and Shake, Verve
  • I Wan'na Be Like You (The Monkey Song) Los Lobos
    Stay Awake: Various Interpretations of Music from Vintage Disney Films, A&M
  • Instrumental: In 3's Beastie Boys
    The In Sound From Way Out!, Capitol
  • INTERVIEW: Imagination Movers

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  • Old McDonald Had a Farm (Part 2) Rufus Thomas
    Funky Chicken, Stax
  • They All Ask'd for You The Meters
    The Very Best of the Meters, Rhino
  • End Bed: Sleepwalker's Lullaby Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant
    Stratosphere Boogie: The Flaming Guitars of Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant, Razor & Tie

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