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A Music Map of New Orleans Lives - with Creole Jazz Singer John Boutté A Music Map of New Orleans Lives - with Creole Jazz Singer John Boutté December 6th, 2023 (Hour 1)
A Music Map of New Orleans Lives - with Creole Jazz Singer John Boutté

It’s a sonic map of New Orleans music from the recording studios and nightclubs to jazz parades. Songs about life on Basin Street and Bourbon Street, to Rampart Street and the lady from la rue Dauphine in the voices of Trombone Shorty, Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Ida Cox and Louis Prima. Then, a live session at Marigny Studios with Creole jazz and soul singer John Boutté who grew up in the Tremé neighborhood in a family of ten kids, where singing was a household and street corner pastime.

Photo by Marc PoKempner

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MARDI GRAS IN NEW ORLEANS

February 14th, 2007

Stay behind the barricades please—it’s Carnival Time in New Orleans. We take the occasion to remember the life and passing of the leader of the Yellow Pocahontas, Allison “Tootie” Montana, the Mardi Gras Indian Chief of Chiefs who passed away in June 2005. Also the history behind a burlesque tune-turned Krewe of Rex theme, “If Ever I Cease To Love.” And meet the hottest guys in the parade as we tote a torch with the flambeau carriers, lighting the route and accepting gratuities along the way.

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HOUR ONE

  • Big Chief (Complete Version) Professor Longhair with Earl King
    Ultimate Mardi Gras, Mardi Gras
  • Big Chief Donald Harrison Jr. with Dr. John
    Indian Blues, Candid
  • Mardi Gras Day Kermit Ruffins with the Rebirth Brass Band
    Throwback, Basin Street
  • Carnival Time Al Johnson
    Mardi Gras in New Orleans, Mardi Gras
  • SEGMENT: Flambeau carriers

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  • Street Parade Earl King
    Mardi Gras in New Orleans, Mardi Gras
  • Instrumental: Mardi Gras Iko The Chosen Few Brass Band
    New Orleans Brass Bands: Down Yonder, Rounder
  • Indian Red Young Guardians of the Flame
    New Way Pockey Way, First Tribe
  • Meet the Boyz on the Battlefront Anders Osborne with 'Big Chief' Monk Boudreaux
    Doctors, Professors, Kings and Queens: The Big Ol' Box of New Orleans, Shout! Factory
  • My Indian Red Baby Dodds Trio feat. Danny Barker
    Jazz A'La Creole, GHB
  • Jock-A-Mo Sugar Boy Crawford and His Cane Cutters
    Crescent City Soul: The Sound of New Orleans 1947-1974, EMI
  • Instrumental: Hiko Hiko Donald Harrison Jr.
    Indian Blues, Candid
  • SEGMENT: Allison 'Tootie' Montana

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  • New Suit The Wild Magnolias
    They Call Us Wild, Polydor
  • Indian Blues Donald Harrison Jr.
    Indian Blues, Candid

HOUR two

  • The Second Line Donald Harrison Jr. and the New Orleans Legacy Ensemble
    Spirits of Congo Square, Candid
  • INTERVIEW: Dr. Stephen Hales on If Ever I Cease to Love

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  • La Gallina, Opus 53 (The Hen: Danse cubaine) Louis Moreau Gottschalk
    American Piano Music by Amiram Rigai, Folkways
  • Go to the Mardi Gras Professor Longhair
    Mardi Gras Essentials, Hip-O
  • Instrumental: Pasillo Sotario Gomez Orchestra
    Caribbean Voyage: Trinidad, Rounder
  • Carnival Proclamation Lord Melody
    Calypso Awakening, Folkways
  • (Talkin' About The) Zulu King James and Troy Andrews
    12 & Shorty, Keep Swingin'
  • Mardi Gras Mambo The Hawketts
    Mardi Gras Essentials, Hip-O
  • I Know You Mardi Gras Eddie Bo
    Carnival, Putumayo
  • Bourbon Street Parade Olympia Brass Band
    Kickin' Some Brass, Shanachie
  • Walk Through the Streets of the City Bill Matthews & His New Orleans Dixieland Band
    Recorded in New Orleans, Vol. 1, Good Time Jazz
  • Instrumental: Double D Two Step Geno Delafose & French Rockin' Boogie
    La Chanson Perdue, Rounder
  • La Danse de Mardi Gras The Balfa Brothers
    The Balfa Brothers Play Traditional Cajun Music, Swallow
  • Mardi Gras Song Coteau
    Highly Seasoned Cajun Music, Rounder
  • End Bed: If Ever I Cease to Love John Rankin
    Fess' Mess, Rankomatic Music

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