AMERICAN ROUTES
New Orleans Jazz Banjo/Guitarist Danny Barker & American Routes Live with Detroit Brooks and his Syncopated Percolators New Orleans Jazz Banjo/Guitarist Danny Barker & American Routes Live with Detroit Brooks and his Syncopated Percolators September 27th, 2023 (Hour 1)
New Orleans Jazz Banjo/Guitarist Danny Barker & American Routes Live with Detroit Brooks and his Syncopated Percolators

New Orleans musician and raconteur Danny Barker was a banjo and guitar hero—a major player in New York jazz who never forgot his French Creole roots in song and style. We look back on Danny’s career, his life with wife and collaborator, the singer Blue Lu Barker, and his influence sustaining culture in the Crescent City. Then, current day guitar and banjo man, Detroit Brooks pays tribute to the Barker legacy with his band the Syncopated Percolators live at the New Orleans Jazz Museum.

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AMERICAN ROUTES LIVE: CREOLE SONGLINES OF LEYLA MCCALLA AND SAXOPHONIST DONALD HARRISON'S JAZZ JOURNEY

January 13th, 2021

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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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: A Day for the Hunter, A Day for the Prey Leyla McCalla and Friends
    American Routes Live Recording,
  • SEGMENT: Leyla McCalla

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  • Girl Leyla McCalla and Friends
    American Routes Live Recording,
  • La tibonit Leyla McCalla and Friends
    American Routes Live Recording,
  • Kamen Sa Y Fe Leyla McCalla and Friends
    American Routes Live Recording,
  • Capitalist Blues Leyla McCalla and Friends
    American Routes Live Recording,
  • Instrumental: Zozo Noir Cedric Watson
    Cedric Watson, Valcour Records
  • Pa Janvier Cedric Watson with Leyla McCalla and Friends
    American Routes Live Recording,
  • How Come You Do Me Like You Do? Don Vappie with Leyla McCalla and Friends
    American Routes Live Recording,
  • Song for a Dark Girl Leyla McCalla
    American Routes Live Recording,
  • Peze Cafe Leyla McCalla and Friends
    American Routes Live Recording,
  • Instrumental: Basin Street Blues Don Vappie
    The Blue Book of Storyville, Jazzetal
  • Eh La Bas Leyla McCalla and Friends
    American Routes Live Recording,
  • A Day for the Hunter, A Day for the Prey Leyla McCalla and Friends
    American Routes Live Recording,
  • End Bed: Notre Dame de 7 Doleurs Various Artists
    Caribbean Revels: Haiti Rara and Dominican Gaga, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: Free to Be Donald Harrison Quintet
    American Routes Live Recording,
  • SEGMENT: Donald Harrison

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  • Nouveau Swing Donald Harrison Quintet
    American Routes Live Recording,
  • Instrumental: Hiko Hiko Donald Harrison
    Indian Blues, Candid Productions
  • One for Bird Donald Harrison
    American Routes Live Recording,
  • Mr. Cool Breeze Donald Harrison
    American Routes Live Recording,
  • Instrumental: Indian Blues Donald Harrison
    Indian Blues, Candid Productions
  • Iko Iko Donald Harrison Quintet
    American Routes Live Recording,
  • Amazing Grace Donald Harrison Quintet
    American Routes Live Recording,
  • End Bed: Walkin' Home Donald Harrison & Dr. John
    Indian Blues, Candid Productions

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