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AMERICAN ROUTES ON INSTAGRAM
NEW YORK, NEW YORK
American Routes tackles the musical Big Apple with singing cabdrivers, subway bluesmen, and banging on a can. Naturally there’ll be club jazz and folk, Jewish klezmer, Latin rhythms, Irish sessions, a touch of Broadway, and atmospheric avant-garde—from the sidewalks to the skyscrapers, from the East Side to the West, from the Village to Harlem.
HOUR ONE
- Open Bed: The Sidewalks of NY Duke Ellington Orchestra
The Complete RCA Victor Recordings, RCA Victor - There's a Boat Dat's Leavin' Soon for New York Louis Armstrong
Our Love is Here to Stay - Ella & Louis Sing Gershwin, Verve - Funky Broadway Dyke & the Blazers
Standing on the Verge: The Roots of Funk, Shanachie - Life During Wartime Talking Heads
Fear of Music, Sire - Going To New York Jimmy Reed
Jimmy Reed: The Classic Recording, Tomato - INTERVIEW: Carolina Slim
- Take the ‘A' Train Delta Rhythm Boys
Night Train: Classic Railroad Songs, Vol. 3, Rounder - A Helluva Town George Russell
New York, NY, Impulse - Instrumental: Spanish Harlem Val Bennett
Tighten Up Volume 1, Trojan - Bob Dylan's Blues Bob Dylan
The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, Columbia - Chinatown Luna
Penthouse, Elektra - On Broadway Tito Puente
50 Years of Swing, RMM - America West Side Story
West Side Story: Original Sound Track Recording, Columbia - Dancing the Meringue Jose Quesada y los Cinco Diablos
Carnegie Hall / Folkmasters Radio Series, - Instrumental: Take the ‘A' Train Esquivel!
Cabaret Manana, RCA - SEGMENT: New York cab drivers
- Taxi/Drumming Original Broadway Cast
Bring in Da Noise, Bring in Da Funk, RCA
HOUR two
- Open Bed: Bob and Nico Lounge Lizards
No Pain For Cakes, Antilles - New York City Blues Peggy Lee w/ the Quincy Jones Orchestra
Blues Cross Country, Capitol - Boogaloo Down Broadway Fantastic Johnny C
Beg, Scream & Shout, Rhino - Walk on the Wild Side Lou Reed
Walk on the Wild Side: The Best of Lou Reed, BMG - Saxophone Factory Steve Dalachinsky
Incomplete Directions, Knitting Factory - 52nd St. Theme Sonny Rollins
The Complete RCA, RCA - Instrumental: The Manufacture of Tangled Ivory Bang on a Can
Cheating, Lying Stealing, Sony - SEGMENT: Bang on a Can Festival
Listen - Second Avenue Squaredance Abe Ellstein Orchestra
Dave Tarras: Yiddish American Klezmer Music, Yazoo - 42nd St. Boswell Sisters
That's How Rhythm Was Born, Columbia/Legacy - NYU Woody Allen
Standup Comic, Rhino - Instrumental: The Fisherman Leo Kottke
6- and 12-String Guitar, Takoma - New York Town Woody Guthrie
This Land is Your Land, Folkways - Angels in Harlem Smokey Hogg
Angels in Harlem, Specialty - Farther Along The Golden Jubilees
New York Grass Roots Gospel, Global Village - Harlem Air Shaft Duke Ellington
The Complete RCA Recordings, RCA - Moondog Tony Schwartz
NY 19, Folkways - Sounds of Silence Simon and Garfunkel
Old Friends, Sony - End Bed: Megamix Steve Reich remix by Tranquilty Bass
