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JUMP FOR JOY: BIG BAND JAZZ AND CONJUNTO FIDDLE TRADITIONS WITH CARLA BLEY AND BELEN ESCOBEDO
A visit with inventive and eccentric jazz composer Carla Bley, for whom the National Anthem proves an unlikely source of inspiration. Bley brings wry humor to a conversation about the challenges of writing for her very big bands, her early days as a cigarette girl in NYC jazz clubs, and why America might be famous for baked beans. Then we head southwest and west to the borderlands of Mexican-American music with a stop for conversation with San Antonio’s Belen Escobedo, a master of the traditional conjunto violin. Plus songs from Freddy Fender, Elizabeth Cotten, Sunny and the Sunliners and Flatt & Scruggs.
HOUR ONE
- Open Bed: Ida Lupino Paul Bley Trio
Closer, ESP-Disk - I'm Nuts About Screwy Music Jimmie Lunceford
The Swinging Mr. Lunceford, Empress - Jump for Joy Herb Jeffries/Duke Ellington
Centennial Box Set, - SEGMENT: Carla Bley
Listen - Instrumental: H.C.Q Strut Django Reinhardt & Stephane Grappelli
The Ultimate Collection, Prism Leisure - You Gotta Pay the Band Abbey Lincoln & Stan Getz
The Gotta Pay the Band, Gitanes Jazz - Falling Rain Blues Lonnie Johnson
Lonnie Johnson: Complete Folkways Recordings, Smithsonian Folkways - I Love the Life I Live Mose Allison
Retrospective, Columbia - If It Ain't Got that Swing The Modern Jazz Quartet
The Modern Jazz Quartet, WEA - Little Bells Pual Burch
Still Your Man, Ramseur Records - Instrumental: California Cotillion Mike Seeger
True Vine, Smithsonian Folkways - Fifty Miles of Elbow Room F. W. McGee
The Anthology of American Music, Smithsonian Folkways - Brakeman's Blues Jimmie Rodgers
The First Sessions, Rounder - Freight Train Elizabeth Cotten
Freight Train and Other North Carolina Songs, Smithsonian Folkways - No Depression in Heaven New Lost City Ramblers
The New Lost City Ramblers: 50 Years, Smithsonian Folkways - Nine Pound Hammer Lester Flat and Earl Scruggs
Songs of Our Land, Columbia - Roll On Son Volt
American Central Dust, Rounder - End Bed: Fuller Blues Sam McGee
Grand Dad of the Country Guitar Pickers, Arhoolie
HOUR two
- Open Bed: Las Perlitas Belen Escobedo
Panfilo's Güera, Spring Fed Records - A San Antonio Irene y Fidel
Tejano Country Festival, Vol. 3, CFM - Is Anybody Going to San Antone Doug Sahm
Doug Sahm and Band, Atlantic - The Sun Went Down T-Bone Walker
The Complete Imperial Recordings 1950-1954, Capitol - Wasted Days and Wasted Nights Freddy Fender
Introduction to Freddy Fender, Fuel - Ay te dejo en San Antonio Los Texmaniacs
Texas Towns and Tex Mex Sounds, Smithsonian Folkways - Wolly Bully Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs
Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs - The MGM Singles, UMG - One Time One Night Los Lobos
By the Light of the Moon, Warner - Instrumental: El Poder del Amor Trío Alegre
Orquestras de Cuerdas-The String Bands- Mexican American Border Music Volume 5, Smithsonian Folkways - Cheque en Blanco Chelo Silva
La Gran Coleccion Del 60 Aniversario CBS, Sony - Got You on My Mind Sunny and the Sunliners
Talk to Me, Key-Loc - San Antonio Rose Ray Price
Ray Price Sings San Antonio Rose, Sony - Before the Next Teardrop Falls Freddy Fender
Before the Next Teardrop Falls, Geffen - Gimme Six Feet Ruben Moreno
Gimme Six Feet Single, Guy Michaels - Muy Fifi Ersi Arvizu
Chávez Ravine-Ry Cooder, Nonesuch - Instrumental: Viva El West Side Fred Zimmerle's Trio San Antonio
Fred Zimmerle's Trio San Antonio, Smithsonian Folkways - SEGMENT: Belen Escobedo
Listen - End Bed: Capullito de aleli Belen Escobedo
Panfilo's Güera, Spring Fed Records
