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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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FALL - PHAROAH SANDERS

September 29th, 1999

Is that a slight nip in the air I feel…? Wishful thinking for the first week of Fall, at least down South. So we have a “cool” conversation with jazz saxophone luminary Pharaoh Sanders—the man John Coltrane called “My right arm.” Plus, a birthday tribute to Gershwin.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: September in the Rain Dinah Washington
    The Dinah Washington Story, EmArcy/Mercury
  • It's September Johnnie Taylor
    The Complete Stax/Volt Soul Singles 1972-1975, Stax
  • Autumn Leaves Esquivel
    Infinity In Sound Volumes 1 and 2, Bar/None
  • Autumn Leaves Dee Dee Bridgewater
    Keeping Tradition, Verve
  • Instrumental: Gamin - Rhythmically & Humorously William Grant Still/Fritz Gearhart, violin & Paul Tardif, piano
    American Violin, Koch
  • La Rosée (The Morning Dew) Steve Riley & the Mamou Playboys
    Bayou Ruler, Rounder
  • Wind Cries Mary Jimi Hendrix
    Are You Experienced, MCA
  • Josephine Snooks Eaglin
    Essential Blues Guitar, House of Blues
  • Instrumental: Sunrise On The Mississippi Bruce Cockburn
    Dart To The Heart, Columbia
  • INTERVIEW: Pharaoh Sanders
  • Astral Traveling Pharaoh Sanders
    Thembi, Impulse
  • Ascension John Coltrane
    The Major Works of John Coltrane, Impulse
  • The Creator Has a Master Plan Pharaoh Sanders
    Karma, Impulse
  • September Song Django Reinhardt
    The Indispensable Django Reinhardt, RCA
  • Faded Love Bob Wills
    For The Last Time, Liberty
  • Night Life Willie Nelson and B.B. King
    Deuces Wild, MCA

HOUR two

  • The Man I Love Milt Jackson and Joe Pass
    I Got Rhythm: The Music of George Gershwin, Smithsonian Collection
  • The Man I Love Billie Holiday
    Masters of Jazz Vol. 5: Female Vocal Classics, Rhino
  • Porgy Sings George Gershwin
    Gershwin: Catfish Row/St. Louis Symphony Orchestra/Leonard Slatkin, EMI
  • Summertime Has Past and Gone Bill Monroe
    16 Gems, Columbia/Legacy
  • Autumn Serenade John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman
    John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman, Impulse
  • Yo Regresare Celia Cruz & Tito Puente
    La Musica De Cuba, Music of the World
  • Instrumental: Schottische-Choro Villa-Lobos/Julian Bream, guitarist
    Guitar Greatest Hits, RCA
  • St. James Infirmary Henry 'Red' Allen & Coleman Hawkins
    World On A String, RCA/Bluebird
  • Hospital Lemonheads
    Car Button Cloth, TAG
  • Leaves that Are Green Simon and Garfunkel
    Old Friends, Columbia/Legacy
  • Wrong Side of His Heart Rosie Flores
    Rockabilly Filly, Hightone
  • What Is This Thing Called Love Alice Hall
    Planet Squeezebox, Ellipsis Arts
  • Lady be Good Howard Armstrong
    Louie Bluie, Blue Suit
  • Instrumental: That Certain Feeling George Gershwin
    Gershwin Plays Gershwin: The Piano Rolls, Elektra/Nonesuch
  • Blue Moon The Marcels
    Doo Wop Blue Moon, Flashback
  • Shine on Harvest Moon Leon Redbone
    Double Time, Warner Brothers
  • King Harvest The Band
    Across The Great Divide, Capitol
  • End Bed: Ricky's Theme The Beastie Boys
    The In Sound From Way Out, Capitol/Grand Royal

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