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CINCO DE MAYO
In honor of Cinco de Mayo, we’ll celebrate the life and music of Lalo Guerrero—composer of “Cancion Mexicana” and zoot-suit swing and collaborator with groups such as Los Lobos—who passed away this March. Also a visit with young hot Panamanian jazz pianist Danilo Perez, who blends avant-garde with the traditional music of his home country.
HOUR ONE
- Open Bed: Watermelon Man Arthur Lyman
Sonic Sixties, Rykodisc - Watermelon Man Big Mama Thornton
The Way It Is, Mercury - Down In Mexico The Coasters
50 Coastin' Classics, Rhino - Frenesi Eydie Gorme
Wild Cool and Swingin Too, Capitol - Volver Elidaes Ochoa
Sublime Illusion, Higher Octave - Blue Shadows Jimmie Dale Gilmore
One Endless Night, Rounder - Drunk La Cucaracha Carl Stalling
The Carl Stalling Project Volume 2, Warner - La Cucaracha The Ardoin Family Orchestra with Dewie Balfa
A Couple Of Cajuns, Sonet - Mala Cara Pedro Isidro
Orquestras Tejans, Arhoolie - Evangeline Los Lobos
How Will the Wolf Survive, Warner - INTERVIEW: Lalo Guerrero
Listen - Instrumental: Martinique Martin Denny
Exotica: The Best of Martin Denny, Rhino - Blues on Central Avenue Joe Turner and Freddie Slack
Jazz in L.A. 1921-1956 Vol 1, Rhino - Give me the Flowers While I Live Jack Dupree
Deep Blue: The Rounder 25th Anniversary Blues Anthology, Rounder - Wildwood Flower Mother Maybelle Carter
Fifty Years Of Country Music From Mercury 1945-1995, Mercury - Acony Bell Gillian Welch
Revival, ALMO
HOUR two
- Ain't That Good News Sam Cooke
The Man & His Music, RCA - Boy from Ipanema Peggy Lee
Wild, Cool & Swingin' Too, Captiol - Bright Mississippi Thelonius Monk
Monk's Dream, Columbia - Instrumental: Out Walked Bud / In Walked Bud Double Naught Spy Car
Comb in Blue Water, 11 Ft. Pole - Harlem River Drive Theme Harlem River Drive
Nu Yorica!, Soul Jazz - Molino Molero Susana Baca
Susana Baca, Luaka Bop - INTERVIEW: Danilo Perez
Listen - Instrumental: Cat O'Nine Tails Combustible Edison
The Impossible World, Subpop - Spanish Joint D'Angelo
Voodoo, Virgin - Hang On Sloopy Gilberto Sextet
The Groovy Sounds of The Gilberto Sextet, Cotique - Cuando, Cuando, Que Sera? Cal Tjader
Talkin' Verve Roots Of Acid Jazz, Verve - Before the Next Teardrop Falls Freddy Fender
- Across the Borderline Willie Nelson
Across the Borderline, Columbia
