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American Routes Live: Creole Songlines of Leyla McCalla and Saxophonist Donald Harrison's Jazz Journey American Routes Live: Creole Songlines of Leyla McCalla and Saxophonist Donald Harrison's Jazz Journey January 13th, 2021 (Hour 1)
American Routes Live: Creole Songlines of Leyla McCalla and Saxophonist Donald Harrison's Jazz Journey

We go live in concert and conversation with two New Orleans artists each of whom bring their family heritage forward into contemporary music. Singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Leyla McCalla has called New Orleans home for many years, but her family ties are to Haiti. She draws on French Creole roots for inspiration, as well as from the poetry of Langston Hughes. Then jazz saxophonist Big Chief Donald Harrison, whose musical journey includes time in New York with drummer Art Blakey’s band, talks about “Afro-New Orleans” culture and demonstrates how to bring soul, funk, and Black carnival traditions into modern jazz.

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REMAKE THE WORLD: JIMMY CLIFF & ARTURO O'FARRILL

January 8th, 2020

We travel to Jamaica and Cuba, with connections in NYC and New Orleans. Singer Jimmy Cliff is the global reggae star whose career was launched a half century ago by the iconic film and sound track, The Harder They Come. We talk with him about his start in the early days of Jamaican recorded music and his work to make the world a better place for everyone. Then bandleader and pianist Arturo O’Farrill shares his family heritage in Afro-Latin jazz and a recent project playing music of all kinds on the US side of the Mexican border at the Fandango at the Wall. Plus music from around the Caribbean and Gulf South with Toots and the Maytals, Machito and Big Chief Donald Harrison Jr.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: The Harder They Come Jimmy Cliff
    The Harder They Come , Mango
  • Do the Reggay Toots and the Maytals
    Time Tough: The Anthology, Island
  • Rock Steady Alton Ellis
    The Roots of Reggae: Rocksteady Vol. 2, Rhino
  • Perfidia Phyllis Dillon
    Treasure Isle Time, Heartbeat
  • Country Gal Harold Richardson & the Ticklers
    Mento Madness: Motta's Jamaican Mento: 1951-56, V2 Music
  • Instrumental: Perfidia The Ventures
    The Ventures, Capitol
  • SEGMENT: Jimmy Cliff

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  • Instrumental: Later for the Gater Willis Jackson
    Call of the Gators, Delmark
  • SEGMENT: Jimmy Cliff Pt. 2

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  • 007 (Shanty Town) Desmond Dekker and the Aces
    The Harder They Come, Mango
  • Pressure Drop Toots & the Maytals
    The Harder They Come, Mango
  • Meet the Boys on the Battle Front Wild Tchoupitoulas/Neville Brothers
    Wild Tchoupitoulas, Mango
  • Natty Take Over Justin Hinds and the Dominoes
    Jezebel, Island
  • Stop That Train Bob Marley & the Wailers
    Catch a Fire, Island
  • Rivers of Babylon Melodians
    The Harder They Come, Mango
  • Closing Bed: The Harder They Come Jerry Garcia, Merl Saunders
    GarciaLive Volume Nine: August 11th, 1974 Keystone Berkeley , Jerry Garcia Family LLC

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: Alma Vacia Arturo O’Farrill & the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra
    The Offense of the Drum, Motema
  • Cuban Blues Chico O'Farrill
    Cuban Blues, Chico O'Farrill
  • Rum and Coca Cola Professor Longhair
    Rock n Roll Gumbo, Blue Star
  • C'est le Autre Can Can (Creole Song) Ory's Creole Jazz Band
    Central Avenue Sounds- Jazz in Los Angeles 1921-1956, Rhino
  • Iko Iko Arturo O'Farrill and the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra with Donald Harrison
    The Offense of the Drum, Motema Music
  • Instrumental: Doctor Jazz Jelly Roll Morton
    Birth of the Hot: The Classic Chicago "Red Hot Peppers" Sessions (1926-27), Bluebird
  • Dr. Jazz Ellis Marsalis
    Heart of Gold , Columbia
  • Mo pas l'aimé ça Don Vappie and Jazz Créole
    The Blue Book of Storyville, Lejazzetal Records
  • A la Mar y el Viento Lenor Gonzalez Mina
    La Reina del Afro-Columbiano, A Latin Affair
  • Ahora Si Machito & His Orchestra with Graciela
    A Man & His Music: El Padrino , Fania
  • Instrumental: Cuando Vuelva A Tu Lado Tito Rodriguez
    Latin Jewels, Craft Recordings
  • Avisale a Mi Contrario Tito Rodriguez
    Carnival of the Americas, Craft Recordings
  • Negra Caridad Daymé Arocena
    Cubafonia, Brownwood Records
  • SEGMENT: Arturo O'Farrill

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  • Closing Bed: Cielito Lindo Arturo O'Farrill and the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra
    Fandango at the Wall, Resilience Music Alliance

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