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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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NEW YORK, NEW YORK

December 8th, 1999

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.

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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

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  • 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

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