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AMERICAN ROUTES ON INSTAGRAM
NEW YORK II: BEAT OF THE BOROUGHS
Head to New York City with American Routes as we search out the beat of the boroughs. Sit in with Seleno Clarke as he hosts a Sunday night Hammond B-3 organ jam at the Harlem American Legion Hall. Pick and grin downtown in Washington Square Park as country comes to the city for a reunion of bluegrass musicians from the 1950s and ’60s. Then it’s up to the South Bronx to trace Latin music from Mambo to Hip-Hop. Plus music from and about the city from John Coltrane, Bob Dylan and other musicians that called New York home.
HOUR ONE
- The Sidewalks of New York (take 5) Cannonball Adderly with Milt Jackson
Things Are Getting Better, Riverside - Take the 'A' Train Delta Rhythm Boys
The Jive is Jumpin': RCA & Bluebird Vocal Groups, 1939-52, West Side - Underneath the Harlem Moon The Fletcher Henderson Band
A Study in Frustration: The Fletcher Henderson Story, Columbia/Legacy - Drop Me Off in Harlem Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington
The Great Summit: The Master Takes, Roulette Jazz - Instrumental: Blue Harlem Tiny Grimes
Hittin' On All Six: A History of the Jazz Guitar, Proper - SEGMENT: Organ Jam at American Legion Post #398 in Harlem with Seleno Clarke, George Benson, Dino White, Helen Redmond & Belinda Taylor, Judd Neilsen, Paula Hampton and Mel Davis
Listen - Harlem Country Girl Olu Dara
In the World: From Natchez to New York, Atlantic - New York City Blues Peggy Lee
Blues Cross Country, Capitol Jazz - Instrumental: Tu'Gether Willis Jackson
Giants of the Blues and Funk Tenor Sax, Prestige - Why Do Fools Fall in Love The Teenagers featuring Frankie Lymon
The Only Doo-Wop Collection You'll Ever Need, Shout! Factory - I Wonder Why Dion and the Belmonts
The Only Doo-Wop Collection You'll Ever Need, Shout! Factory - Uptown Loudon Wainwright III
The Atlantic Recordings, Rhino Handmade - Coney Island Washboard Swift Jewel Cowboys
Western Swing and Country Jazz, JSP - The Sheik of Avenue B Frank Crumit
From Avenue A to the Great White Way: Yiddish & American Popular Songs from 1914-1950, Columbia/Legacy - Bei Mir Bist du Schon Michael White and Klezmer Plus
Live Recording from Folk Masters Concert 1992, - End Bed: When You Want 'Em, You Can't Get 'Em, When You've Got 'Em, You Don't Want 'Em George Gershwin realized by Artis Wodenhouse
Gershwin Plays Gershwin: The Piano Rolls, Nonesuch
HOUR two
- Open Bed On Broadway Tito Puente
50 Years of Swing, RMM - Oye Como Va Tito Puente
Nu Yorica Roots!: The Rise of Latin Music in New York City in the 1960's, Soul Jazz - Oquendo y Libre Manny Oquendo y Libre
New York City: Global Beat of the Boroughs, Smithsonian Folkways - SEGMENT: From Mambo to Hip-Hop in the Bronx
Listen - Play One Solo Harmonites
Trinidad Carnival: Steel Bands of Trinidad and Tobago, Original Digital - New York Subway "Lord Invader with Felix and His Internationals
Calypso in New York, Smithsonian Folkways - Instrumental: Spanish Harlem Val Bennett
Tighten Up, Trojan - New York City Leadbelly
When the Sun Goes Down: Take This Hammer, Bluebird/RCA - Hard Times in New York Town Bob Dylan
The Bootleg Series, Volumes 1-3, Columbia - I Wouldn't Live in New York City (If They Gave Me the Whole Dang Town) Buck Owens
The Buck Owens Collection 1959-1990, Rhino - SEGMENT: Bluegrass at Washington Square Park with Toby King, Mark Horowitz, Eric Weissberg, Bob Yellin, and Roger Sprung
Listen - Instrumental: The Assassination of Stephan Grossman John Fahey
Old Fashion Love, Shanachie - New York Town Rumblin' Jack Elliott with Arlo Guthrie and Sonny Terry
Hard Travelin', Fantasy - Way Over Yonder in the Minor Key Billy Bragg & Wilco
Mermaid Avenue, Elektra - The Way It Is Laura Cantrell
Not The Tremblin' Kind, Diesel Only - Twelve Gates to the City Blind Gary Davis
Harlem Street Singer, Prestige - Homeward Bound Simon & Garfunkel
The Essential Simon & Garfunkel, Columbia - End Bed: Central Park West John Coltrane
The Heavyweight Champion: The Complete Atlantic Recordings, Rhino
