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NEW ORLEANS JAZZ & HERITAGE FESTIVALS OF NOW AND YORE: SONNY ROLLINS, MCCOY TYNER, HERLIN RILEY, CELIA CRUZ, LEE KONITZ, TOPSY CHAPMAN & MORE
This week on American Routes, we’re celebrating the long running New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival with songs and interviews from the performers that make the festival happen. We hear from longtime local favorites, like chanteuse Topsy Chapman and funk drummer Herlin Riley, as well as perennial visitors and jazz titans, McCoy Tyner and Sonny Rollins. We’ll delve into the archives to remember the late Cuban songstress Celia Cruz and revisit our interview with saxophonist Lee Konitz, who made his Jazz Fest premier in 2017.
HOUR ONE
- Open Bed: Drop Me Off in New Orleans Kermit Ruffins
Kermit Ruffins 1533 St. Philip St., Basin Street Records - The Music Goes Round and Round Louis Prima
His Greatest Hits, Jasmine Records - Louisiana 1927 Randy Newman
American Routes Jazz Fest recording 2005, - It's Raining Irma Thomas
Soul Queen of New Orleans, Mardi Gras - Didn't It Rain (live) Mahalia Jackson
The Essential Mahalia Jackson, Columbia Legacy - SEGMENT: Topsy Chapman
Listen - Instrumental: Bright Mississippi Allen Toussaint
Bright Mississippi, Nonesuch - Going to the River Fats Domino
The Imperial Singles, Vol. 2: 1953-1956, Ace - Thanks for the Beautiful Land on the Delta Duke Ellington
New Orleans Suite, Atlantic - SEGMENT: Sonny Rollins
Listen - Instrumental: Blue Horizon Sidney Bechet
Blue Horizon: The Sidney Bechet Story, Proper Records - Do You Know What It Means (To Miss New Orleans) Louis Armstrong and Billie Holiday
New Orleans: The Soundtrack, Jazz Crusade - Le Petit Fleur Preservation Hall Hot 4
Preservation Hall Hot 4, Preservation Hall Recordings - SEGMENT: Lee Konitz
Listen - End Bed: Will the Circle Be Unbroken Dr. Michael White
Blue Crescent, Basin Street Records
HOUR two
- Open Bed: Tipitina Allen Toussaint
American Routes Recording , - Huey Piano Smith Medley Dr. John
Gumbo, Atlantic - Basin Street Blues Henry Butler
PianNOLA Live, Basin Street Records - SEGMENT: McCoy Tyner
Listen - Instrumental: Blues Back McCoy Tyner
Reaching Fourth, Jazz Hour - Tous les jours c'est pas la meme Carol Fran
Our New Orleans 2005-- A Benefit Album, Nonesuch - Salée Dame Don Vappie
Creole Blues, Vapielle Records - SEGMENT: Celia Cruz
Listen - Instrumental: At the House, In Da Pocket Jason Marsalis
Year of the Drummer, Basin Street Records - SEGMENT: Herlin Riley
Listen - Everything I Do Gonna Be Funky From Now On Lee Dorsey and the Meters
Lee Dorsey Soul Mine-- The Greatest Hits and More 1960-1978, Charly - Look-Ka Py Py The Meters
Look-Ka Py Py, Josie Records - No Place Like Home Soul Rebels with Trombone Shorty
No Place Like Home, Independent - Closing Bed: Blue Monk Dirty Dozen Brass Band
My Feet Can't Fail Me Now, Concord
