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Caribbean Cruise & South Louisiana Sojourn: Garifuna Guitarist Aurelio & Creole Accordionist Cedric Watson Caribbean Cruise & South Louisiana Sojourn: Garifuna Guitarist Aurelio & Creole Accordionist Cedric Watson August 3rd, 2022 (Hour 1)
Caribbean Cruise & South Louisiana Sojourn: Garifuna Guitarist Aurelio & Creole Accordionist Cedric Watson

It’s a Caribbean sonic voyage with singer-guitarist and social leader Aurelio, who grew up in the traditional Afro-Indigenous Garifuna culture of coastal Honduras and now lives part time in the Bronx, NY. He’s a global ambassador for Garifuna culture and a member of the Honduran congress. Then live in-studio, the young Louisiana fiddler, accordionist, singer, Cedric Watson and his band Bijou Creole play La-La and zydeco soul. Plus: Kid Ory‘s New Orleans jazz; reggae songman, Jimmy Cliff; Cuban descarga from Cachao; and the Trinidad calypso hero Mighty Sparrow.

Main Image: Aurelio in Corozal village, Honduras. Photo Credit: Sarah Weeden

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TROMBONE SHORTY... CASTS A LONG SHADOW

June 14th, 2017

This week on American Routes, we’re celebrating the life and music of Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews. Schooled in the sounds of his family and New Orleans’ Treme neighborhood, Shorty has been a musician since the age of four. His natural prowess as a trombonist and trumpeter has carried Shorty from his roots in traditional jazz and popular tunes to funk and distinctively new New Orleans music as heard on the recent CD Parking Lot Symphony. We’ll hear a classic concert, where he joins Kermit Ruffins upriver in St. Paul, MN… and then return to New Orleans where Troy takes the stage with his students from the Trombone Shorty Academy, as Andrews mentors the city’s next generation of musicians.

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  • Listen to Hour Two

HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Bourbon St. Parade James and Troy Andrews
    12 & Shorty, Keep Swinging Records
  • (Talkin' Bout the) Zulu King James and Troy Andrews
    12 & Shorty, Keep Swinging Records
  • Little Liza Jane Dr. John w/ James and Troy Andrews
    12 & Shorty, Keep Swinging Records
  • West End Blues Louis Armstrong
    Satchmo Blows the Blues, Sony
  • Buddy Bolden's Blues Jelly Roll Morton
    The Last Sessions: The Complete General Recordings, Commodore
  • Oh, But On the Third Day Wynton Marsalis
    Majesty of the Blues, Columbia
  • Instrumental: Little Liza Jane Nicholas Payton
    Gumbo Nouveau, Verve
  • SEGMENT: Troy and James Andrews

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  • Instrumental: In the 6th Trombone Shorty
    Backatown , Verve
  • Get Down Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews & Orleans Avenue
    Orleans & Claiborne, Treme Records
  • SEGMENT: Trombone Shorty 2010

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  • No Place Like Home The Soul Rebels and Trombone Shorty
    No Place Like Home, soulrebelsbrassband.com
  • End Bed: Two Trumpet Blues The Troy Andrews Quintet
    The End of the Beginning, Treme Records

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: On the Sunny Side of the Street The Troy Andrews Quintet
    The End of the Beginning, Treme Records
  • Ooh Poo Pah Doo Parts 1 & 2 Jessie Hill
    The Minit and Instant Story, Charly Records
  • Whole Lotta Lovin' Lenny Kravitz and Trombone Shorty
    Goin' Home: A Tribute to Fats Domino, Vanguard
  • SEGMENT: Trombone Shorty 2017 Pt. 1

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  • Instrumental: Tipitina David Torkanowsky
    American Routes original recording, unreleased
  • SEGMENT: Kermit and Shorty w/ BBQ Swingers at Fitzgerald Theater, St. Paul, MN

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  • SEGMENT: Trombone Shorty 2017 Pt. 2

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  • Instrumental: Congo Square Trombone Shorty
    The End of the Beginning, Treme Records
  • SEGMENT: Trombone Shorty Academy

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  • Closing Bed: Fanfare Trombone Shorty
    Parking Lot Symphony, Blue Note

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