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Ellis Marsalis Remembered: Family Memories & Music with Branford, Wynton, Delfeayo and Jason Marsalis Ellis Marsalis Remembered: Family Memories & Music with Branford, Wynton, Delfeayo and Jason Marsalis April 14th, 2021 (Hour 1)
Ellis Marsalis Remembered: Family Memories & Music with Branford, Wynton, Delfeayo and Jason Marsalis

There is no more recognizable family name in jazz from New Orleans and beyond than: Marsalis. We’re paying tribute to the late pianist Ellis Marsalis Jr. who passed of Covid-19 in April 2020, and to his musical sons Branford (saxophone), Wynton (trumpet), Delfeayo (trombone) and Jason (drums and vibraphone). The conversation ranges from coming of age in a family of musicians, with expectations of performing at the highest level, to the interplay of traditional and modern jazz in New Orleans. Previously unheard are Wynton’s remarkable memorial oration and a live set with youngest son Jason Marsalis playing the music of his late father. It’s the enduring and thriving musical legacy of the Marsalis family this week on American Routes.

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SMALL TOWN HIPSTERS: NANCY WILSON & DICKIE LANDRY

February 7th, 2007

This week we’ll hear from folks that started in small towns and made it big, in jazz, blues, country and more. Jazz singer Nancy Wilson called Chillicothe, Ohio home before moving on to become one of the hippest vocalists around. Lafayette, Louisiana is home base for musical polymath Dickie Landry. The saxophone player was a founding member of the Phillip Glass ensemble, works with the swamp pop ensemble Lil’ Band O’ Gold, and continues his own avant-garde musical experiments.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Alligator Boogaloo Lou Donaldson
    Blue 45's, The Ultimate Jukebox, Blue Note
  • Way Down Home on the Farm Percy Mayfield
    His Tangerine and Atlantic Sides, Rhino
  • My Country Man Big Maybelle
    The Complete Okeh Sessions, 1952-55, Epic
  • One Room Country Shack Mose Allison
    Back Country Suite, Prestige
  • Unsquare Dance The Dave Brubeck Quartet
    Time Further Out, Columbia
  • Grey Eagle Alison Krauss
    live recording from Folk Masters Concert Series,
  • Instrumental: When It's Darkness on the Delta Country All Stars
    Jazz From the Hills, Bear Family
  • Love Me Elvis Presley
    The King of Rock ‘N' Roll: The Complete 50's Masters, RCA
  • Black Coffee Peggy Lee
    Black Coffee, Verve
  • I'm Down to My Last Cigarette k.d. lang
    Shadowland, Sire
  • Dayton, Ohio Randy Newman
    Sail Away, Reprise
  • Lazybones Leon Redbone
    No Regrets, Sugar Hill
  • Small Town Boy Louis Jordan
    Let the Good Times Roll, Bear Family
  • Instrumental: Wabash Cannonball Adderley
    Compact Jazz: Cannonball Adderley, PolyGram
  • INTERVIEW: Nancy Wilson

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  • Trane's Slo Blues John Coltrane
    The Prestige Recordings, Prestige
  • Night Train James Brown
    Star Time, Polydor
  • Tipitina Allen Toussaint
    American Routes original recording,

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: Sonny Landreth
    American Routes original recording,
  • Johnny B. Goode Chuck Berry
    His Best, Volume 1, MCA/Chess
  • On the Road Again Bob Dylan
    Bringing It All Back Home, Columbia
  • The Natural Facts Sister Rosetta Tharpe
    The Gospel of the Blues, MCA/Decca
  • Tear it Up Charlie Feathers
    Uh Huh Honey, Norton
  • Instrumental: Almost Persuaded Lloyd Green
    The Little Darlin' Sound of Lloyd Green, KOCH
  • Streets of Baltimore Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris
    The Complete Reprise Sessions, Reprise/Rhino
  • Bright Lights Big City Jimmy Reed
    Blues Masters: The Very Best of Jimmy Reed, Rhino
  • Do Right Woman, Do Right Man Dan Penn
    Do Right Man, Sire
  • Folks Back Home Clarence ‘Gatemouth' Brown
    Down South… in the Bayou Country, Barclay
  • Le Grand Bleu The Bluerunners
    Le Grand Bleu, Louisiana Red Hot
  • INTERVIEW: Dickie Landry

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  • Instrumental: Bayou Ponpon Richard Fontenot
    Cajun Country Guitar, Folkways
  • Down South Blues Muddy Waters
    The Aristocrat of the Blues: the Best of Aristocrat Records, MCA/Chess
  • Slow Rollin' Low Waylon Jennings
    Nashville Rebel, RCA Nashville/Legacy
  • Green River Creedence Clearwater Revival
    Creedence Clearwater Revival, Fantasy
  • Driver 8 R.E.M.
    And I Feel Fine… The Best of the I.R.S. Years 1982 - 1987, EMI
  • End Bed: Ramble Link Wray & The Wraymen
    Walkin' With Link, Epic

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  • April 14th, 2021

    ELLIS MARSALIS REMEMBERED: FAMILY MEMORIES & MUSIC WITH BRANFORD, WYNTON, DELFEAYO AND JASON MARSALIS

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  • April 7th, 2021

    ECLECTIC EXCELLENCE: PITTSBURGH GUITARIST GEORGE BENSON & NEW ORLEANS CLARINETIST AURORA NEALAND

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  • March 31st, 2021

    SPRING AWAKENING

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