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JAZZ FEST WITH IRMA THOMAS
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: Saturday Night Fish Fry Jackie "Moms" Mably and Pearl Bailey
Stars of the Apollo, Columbia/Legacy - Stay All Night Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys
For the Last Time, Liberty - Dance All Night Boozoo Chavis
Zydeco Trail Ride, Maison de Soul - Right Place Dr. John
The Very Best of Dr. John, Rhino - La Cologiala Rodolfo y su Tipica
Cumbia Cumbia, World Ciruit - Instrumental: Sobbin' Blues King Oliver
Jazz the World Forgot Vol. 2, Yazoo - Roly Poly Asleep At The Wheel
Western Standard Time, Epic - Roll With Me Henry Etta James
R & B Dynamite, Flair/Virgin - The Creole Love Call Rahsaan Roland Kirk
Atlantic Jazz - Best of the '60s, Vol. 2, Rhino - Big Legged Women Are Back in Style Taj Mahal
Mean Old World - The Blues 1940 to 1994, Smithsonian Collection of Recordings - I'm Walkin' Fats Domino
They Call Me the Fat Man..., Imperial - Love Sick Bob Dylan
Time Out of Mind, Columbia - Walk Right In Rooftop Singers
Folk Song America III, Smithsonian Collection of Recordings - Instrumental: Blue Smoke Merle Travis
Guitar Player Presents Legends of Guitar - Country Vol. 2, Rhino - INTERVIEW: Irma Thomas
Time Is One My Side - The Best of Irma Thomas, Minit/EMI - Ruler of my Heart Irma Thomas
Time Is One My Side - The Best of Irma Thomas, Minit/EMI - It's Raining Irma Thomas
Time Is One My Side - The Best of Irma Thomas, Minit/EMI - Wish Someone Would Care Irma Thomas
Time Is One My Side - The Best of Irma Thomas, Minit/EMI - Yield Not To Temptation Irma Thomas
Marcia Ball, Irma Thomas, Tracy Nelson - Sing It!, Rounder - St. Louis Blues Henry Butler
For All Seasons, Atlantic Jazz
HOUR two
- My Shining Hour Earl Turbinton
Dominion and Sustenance, Progressive - Round Midnight Betty Carter
Round Midnight, Atlantic/Atco - A Hundred and Ten in the Shade John Fogerty
Blue Moon Swamp, Warner Brothers - The 'In' Crowd Ramsey Lewis
Rock Instrumental Classics, Vol. 4: Soul, Rhino - In the Night Professor Longhair & his Blues Scholars
The Professor Longhair Anthology, Rhino - Instrumental: Bourbon Street Parade Olympia Brass Band
Kickin' Some Brass, Shanachie - I Got Loaded Cookie & the Cupcakes
Lafayette Saturday Night, Ace - One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer Aldus Roger
Lafayette Saturday Night, Ace - Bottle Up and Go Snooks Eaglin
Rural Blues, Fantasy - All That Wine is Gone Big Jay McNeely
Jumpin' Like Mad, Capitol Blues Collection - Drinking Wine Spo-Dee-O'Dee Jerry Lee Lewis
The Hits, Mercury - Honky-Tonkin' Hank Williams
The Original Singles Collection, Polydor - Soulful Dress Sugar Pie DeSanto
Chess Soul - A Decade of Chigaco's Finest, MCA/Chess - Ants in My Pants James Brown
Star Time, Polydor - Instrumental: Funky Junk Jimmy McGriff
Electric Funk, Blue Note - Two-Way Pocky Way Donald Harrison
Indian Blues, Candid - thum nyatiti solo
Before Benga Volume 1: Kenya Dry, Original Music - Boogie Chillen' John Lee Hooker
The Very Best of John Lee Hooker, Rhino - Fundamental Things Bonnie Raitt
Fundamental, Capitol - End Bed: Flying Home Gatemouth Brown
Gate Swings, Verve
