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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 II: BEAT OF THE BOROUGHS

August 16th, 2006

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.

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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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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