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AMERICAN ROUTES ON INSTAGRAM
SONNY ROLLINS AND BOB FRENCH
Saxophone colossus Sonny Rollins has been igniting the jazz scene ever since he was a kid in the 1940s, hanging out with his mentor Thelonious Monk. We’ll talk with the jazz master about his work with Miles and Monk among others, and his current improvisatory explorations. Then, we’ll visit with New Orleans’ own jazz legend, Bob French, leader of the Original Tuxedo Jazz Band, to learn the finer points of keeping time in the Crescent City.
HOUR ONE
- Open Bed: The Freedom Suite Sonny Rollins
Freedom Suite , Riverside - Green Dolphin Street Nancy Wilson
The Best of Nancy Wilson: The Jazz and Blues Sessions , Capitol Jazz - Oleo Miles Davis
Bags Groove , Prestige - My Window Faces South Fats Waller
Fats Waller and His Rhythm: The Middle Years Part I, 1936-38, Bluebird/RCA - Cow-Cow Boogie Ella Mae Morse with Freddie Slack & His Orchestra
From the Vaults, Volume 1: The Birth of a Label , Capitol - Instrumental: Hold 'Em Joe Sonny Rollins
Sonny Rollins' Finest Hour , UMVD - Calypso Be Bop Lord Flea & Calypsonians
Swingin' Calipsos , Capitol - Trinidad, Hello Dizzy Gillespie
Jambo Caribe , Verve - SEGMENT: Sonny Rollins Part 1
Listen - Instrumental: On the Sunny Side of the Street Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Stitt, Sonny Rollins
Sonny Side Up, Verve - SEGMENT: Sonny Rollins Part 2
Listen - I'm a Cowboy Danny Barker
Save the Bones, Orleans - The Red Headed Stranger Willie Nelson
Red Headed Stranger , Columbia - It Ain't Necessarily So Mary Lou Williams
The First Lady of the Piano 1952-1971, Giants of Jazz - East of the Sun (West of the Moon) Billie Holiday
Solitude , Polygram - India Joshua Redman
Back East , Nonesuch - End Bed: Softly as in a Morning Sunrise Sonny Rollins
Ballads: Sonny Rollins , Blue Note
HOUR two
- New Orleans Stomp Louis Armstrong
The New Orleans Collection , CMC - Blue Yodel No. 9 Jimmie Rodgers, Louis Armstrong and Lil Hardin
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man , Columbia - Muskrat Ramble Bob French's Original Tuxedo Jazz Band
Livin' the Legacy , Royal Tuxedo - Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home Nellie Lutcher
Nellie Lutcher and Her Rhythm , Bear Family - I Think You Get What I Mean Nat King Cole Trio
The Cocktail Combos , Capitol - Instrumental: Easy Listening Blues Nat King Cole Trio
The Cocktail Combos , Capitol - Les Oignons BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet
Alligator Purse , Yep Roc - Eh La Bas Billie & DeDe Pierce
Gulf Coast Blues , Arhoolie - Heebies Jeebies George Lewis and His New Orleans Stompers
George Lewis and His New Orleans Stompers, Blue Note - SEGMENT: Bob French
Listen - Instrumental: El Paso Rock Long John Hunter
Ooh Wee Pretty Baby! , Norton - Ponderosa Stomp Lazy Lester
House Rockin' & Hip Shakin' Volume 4: Bayou Blues Harp , Hip-O - Barefootin' Robert Parker
Barefootin': Golden Classics , Collectables - Linda Lu Ray Sharpe
Linda Lu, Bear Family - A Certain Girl Ernie K-Doe
Absolutely the Best , Fuel 2000 - I'm a Country Boy Blind Snooks Eaglin
That's All Right , Prestige/Bluesville - End Bed: Hideaway Snooks Eaglin
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