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JAZZ FEST WITH ALLEN TOUSSAINT
The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival is in full swing over the next two weeks. We’ll have music from the year ‘round jazz fest that is the New Orleans club scene, bring you sounds from the Festival grounds, and talk with musical luminaries of the Crescent City, Irma Thomas and Allen Toussaint.
HOUR ONE
- Open Bed: Going Back to New Orleans Joe Liggins & the Honeydrippers
Creole Kings of New Orleans, Specialty - I'll Drink Ta Dat Kermit Ruffins
The Big Butter and Eggman, Justice - Play With Your Poodle James Cotton
Deep in the Blues, Verve - Hound Dog Big Mama Thornton
Hound Dog - the Peacock Recordings, MCA - Weather Bird Nicholas Payton
Gumbo Nouveau, Verve - I Didn't Like It The First Time (Spinach Song) Julie Lee & her Boyfriends (w/Benny Carter alto sax)
Jazz Profile: Benny Carter, Blue Note - Check Mr. Popeye Eddie Bo
Check Mr. Popeye, Rounder - Instrumental: TNT Jimmy Smith
Hoochie Cooche Man, Verve - I'm Your Puppet James and Bobby Purify
The Muscle Shoals Sound, Rhino - Right String, Wrong Yo-Yo Piano Red
Dr. Feelgood All Alone With His Piano, Arhoolie - INTERVIEW: Allen Toussaint
- Java Allen Toussaint
The Wild Sound of New Orleans Piano, Edsel Records - Instrumental: Happy Times Allen Toussaint
The Wild Sound of New Orleans Piano, Edsel Records - Certain Girl Ernie K-Doe
The Minit Records Story, EMI - We're Having A Party Sam Cooke
The Man And His Music, RCA - Let's Give a Party Martin, Bogan and Armstrong
Martin, Bogan and Armstrong, Flying Fish - Zydeco tous pas tous Buckwheat Zydeco
Zydeco Festival, Maison de Soul - End Bed: Guitar Boogie Shuffle The Ventures
Guitar Player Presents Legends of Guitar - Rock: The '50s, Vol. 1, Rhino
HOUR two
- Count 'Em Alvin 'Red' Tyler
Modern New Orleans Masters, Rounder - Country Boy in New Orleans Snooks Eaglin
Country Boy in New Orleans, Arhoolie - My Little Home Down in New Orleans Jimmie Rodgers
The Early Years, 1928-1929, Rounder - Why Should I Be Lonely Aaron Neville
The Songs of Jimmie Rodgers - A Tribute, Egyptian/Columbia - Waltz Across Texas Tonight Emmylou Harris
Wrecking Ball, Elektra - Castles Made of Sand Jimi Hendrix
Axis: Bold As Love, MCA - C'est Chaud Sonny Landreth
South of I-10, Zoo/Praxis - Instrumental: Monorail JBs
James Brown's Funky People, Polydor - Salee Dame, Bon Jour Don Vappie & the Creole Jazz Serenaders
Creole Blues, Vappielle Records - Jeunes filles de la campagne Balfa Toujours
Deux Voyages, Rounder - Louisiana Women J.J. Cale
Really, Mercury - A Foggy Day Germaine Bazzle & Friends
The New New Orleans Music: Vocal Jazz, Rounder - Baby You Can Get Your Gun Earl King
Earl's Pearls, West Side - Shotgun Jr. Walker & the All-Stars
Dancing at the Nick at NightClub, 550 Music - Shotgun Southern Culture on the Skids
Plastic Seat Sweat, DGC - Instrumental: Spread Satin Skatalites
Ska Bonanza, Heartbeat - High Blood Pressure Huey "Piano" Smith
Having A Good Time with Huey "Piano" Smith & the Clowns, West Side - Pressure Drop Maytals
The Harder They Come Soundtrack, Mango - L'il Liza Jane All That
All That, Sousaphonk - End Bed: All Of It Allen Toussaint
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