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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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April 21st, 2010

It’s a two-hour walk through streets of the city as we dive into two great eras of New Orleans music. First, it’s the 1940s and 50s R&B hit factory with studio man Cosimo Matassa, producer, arranger, trumpet player Dave Bartholomew, drummer Earl Palmer and more. There’s also a chat with The Meters—Art Neville, George Porter, Leo Nocentelli and Zigaboo Modeliste—in which we get to the bottom of the bottom, find out what’s in the pocket and get a definition of funk from the four men who continue to dish it out.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Fats Domino Blues and I'm in Love Again Fats Domino
    Out of New Orleans, Bear Family
  • Ain't it a Shame Fats Domino
    Out of New Orleans, Bear Family
  • CLIP: The Beginning
  • Country Boy Dave Bartholomew
    1947-1950, Jazz Classics
  • SEGMENT: Stardust

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  • Stardust Dave Bartholomew
    1947-1950, Jazz Classics
  • CLIP: The Studio Band
  • 3x7=21 Jewel King
    Genius of Dave Bartholomew, EMI
  • Instrumental: Dreaming Fats Domino
    Out of New Orleans, Bear Family
  • CLIP: The Fat Man
  • The Fat Man Fats Domino
    Out of New Orleans, Bear Family
  • Slippin' and Slidin' Little Richard
    The Specialty Sessions Box, Specialty
  • SEGMENT: Beat

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  • Rip it Up Little Richard
    The Specialty Sessions Box, Specialty
  • CLIP: I'm Walkin'
  • I'm Walkin' Fats Domino
    Out of New Orleans, Bear Family
  • CLIP: Sound
  • Let the Four Winds Blow Fats Domino
    Out of New Orleans, Bear Family
  • Instrumental: Blueberry Hill Mose Allison
    Back Country Suite, Prestige
  • CLIP: Blueberry Hill
  • Blueberry Hill Fats Domino
    Out of New Orleans, Bear Family
  • I'm Gonna be a Wheel Someday Fats Domino
    Out of New Orleans, Bear Family
  • Down The Road Smiley Lewis
    Shame, Shame, Shame, Bear Family
  • CLIP: On Smiley Lewis and Professor Longhair
  • One Night Elvis Presley
    1950s Masters, RCA
  • In the Night Professor Longhair
    New Orleans Piano, Atlantic
  • CLIP: Fats Success/ Live
  • Blue Monday Fats Domino
    Out of New Orleans, Bear Family
  • End Bed: Tipitina Allen Toussaint
    American Routes Original Recording,

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: Chicken Strut and Fiyo On the Bayou The Meters
    Funkify Your Life Anthology, Rhino
  • A Message From the Meters The Meters
    Funkify Your Life Anthology, Rhino
  • SEGMENT: Beginnings

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  • Ease Back The Meters
    Funkify Your Life Anthology, Rhino
  • CLIP: House Band
  • Fortune Teller Benny Spellman
    Fortune Teller - Golden Classics, Collectables
  • Working In a Coal Mine Lee Dorsey
    Wheelin’ and Dealin’: The Definitive Collection, Arista
  • Everything I Do Gonna Be Funky From Now On Lee Dorsey
    Wheelin’ and Dealin’: The Definitive Collection, Arista
  • Instrumental: Cissy Strut Rod Piazza
    Bluesman, LMI
  • CLIP: Funk
  • I Been Hoodood Dr. John
    In the Right Place, ATCO
  • Sophisticated Cissy The Meters
    The Meters, Sundazed
  • CLIP: Cissy Strut
  • Cissy Strut The Meters
    The Meters, Sundazed
  • CLIP: Look-Ka-Py-Py
  • Look-Ka-Py-Py The Meters
    Look-Ka-Py-Py, Sundazed
  • CLIP: They All Asked for You
  • They All Asked for You The Meters
    Funkify Your Life Vol. 2, Rhino
  • Instrumental: Drums on Fire Donald Harrison Jr.
    Big Chief Donald Harrison, Jr. presents The New Sounds of Mardi Gras, FOMP
  • CLIP: Mardi Gras Indians/ Hey Pocky Way
  • Hey Pocky Way The Meters
    Rejuvenation, Sundazed
  • Here Dey Come Wild Tchoupitoulas
    Wild Tchoupitoulas, Island
  • SEGMENT: The Rolling Stones/ Paul McCartney

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  • Africa The Meters
    Uptown Rulers! Live on the Queen Mary, Rhino
  • CLIP: Breakup
  • Stormy The Meters
    The Meters, Sundazed
  • CLIP: Today/ Reunions
  • Cissy Strut (Live) The Meters
    Live Recording from 2005 New Orleans Jazz Fest,

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