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JAZZ FEST WITH EARL PALMER
This week, the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival is in full swing. We’ll have music of Festival artists from South Louisiana and beyond, and talk with the drummer who put the backbeat into rock & roll, Earl Palmer. Also, as a tribute to Duke Ellington on the occasion of the centennial of his birth, we’ll hear his “New Orleans Suite.”
HOUR ONE
- Open Bed: Bogalusa Strut Kermit Ruffins
Swing This!, Basin Street - New Orleans Hop Scop Blues Bessie Smith
Any Woman's Blues, Columbia - Going Back to New Orleans Dr. John
The Very Best of Dr. John, Rhino - Dream in Blue Los Lobos
Kiko, Slash/Warner Brothers - Lonely Nights Willie Nelson
Teatro, Island - Instrumental: We Shall Walk Through the Streets of the City Percy Humphrey
New Orleans: The Living Legends - Percy Humphrey's Crescent City Joymakers, Riverside - Leaving Louisiana Marcia Ball
Circuit Queen, Capitol - You Are My Sunshine Ray Charles
The Complete Country & Western Recordings 1959-1986, Rhino - Sufferin' With the Blues Nancy Wilson
The Best of Nancy Wilson: The Jazz and Blues Sessions, Capitol - INTERVIEW: Earl Palmer
- Instrumental: Doudou Moin Sam Castendet et son orchestre créole
Biguine à la Canne à Sucre 1946-1949, Frémeaux & Associés - Manman Ou Tébè Sam Castendet et son orchestre antillais
Biguine à la Canne à Sucre 1946-1949, Frémeaux & Associés - Zydeco Hee Haw Boozoo Chavis
Boozoo Chavis, Nonesuch Explorer - Eh La Bas Corey Harris
Greens from the Garden, Alligator - Life is a Carnival Wild Magnolias
Life is a Carnival, Metro Blue - Without a Song The Isley Brothers
Shout: The RCA Sessions, RCA
HOUR two
- C Jam Blues Duke Ellington and his Orchestra
Battle of the Bands: Duke Ellington vs. Count Basie, RCA Victor - Duke's Place Louis Armstrong
Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington: The Complete Sessions, Capitol - New Orleans Suite, Part 1 (with commentary by Terence Blanchard ) Duke Ellington & Orchestra
New Orleans Suite, Atlantic Jazz - Instrumental: In a Sentimental Mood Duke Ellington
Piano Reflections, Capitol - New Orleans Suite, Part 2 (with commentary by Terence Blanchard ) Duke Ellington & Orchestra
New Orleans Suite, Atlantic Jazz - Instrumental: Things Ain't What They Used To Be Duke Ellington
Piano Reflections, Capitol - New Orleans Suite, Part 3 (with commentary by Terence Blanchard) Duke Ellington & Orchestra
New Orleans Suite, Atlantic Jazz - End Bed: Degas' Racing World Terence Blanchard
Jazz in Film, Sony
