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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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LATIN TINGE: TITO PUENTE AND NATI CANO

September 20th, 2017

For National Hispanic Heritage Month, we’re celebrating the “Latin tinge” in American music. We’ll hear a classic interview with the late Nuyorican bandleader and King of the Timbales, Tito Puente, who tells us about the roots of tropical Latin jazz in Spanish Harlem. Then, it’s off to the West Coast, where we visit the Los Angeles club of the late, great bandleader Nati Cano. As leader of Mariachi Los Camperos, Nati Cano was a central figure in the Mexican Mariachi scene of East LA. All this, plus music from Dizzy Gillespie, Lalo Guerrero, Los Lobos, Buena Vista Social Club, Freddy Fender, Professor Longhair and more.

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  • Listen to Hour Two

HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: El Cayuco Tito Puente
    Dance Mania Vol. 1, BMG
  • Night in Tunisia Dizzy Gillespie
    The Complete RCA Victor Recordings, RCA
  • Los Chucos Suaves Lalo Guerrero
    Pachuco Boogie, Arhoolie
  • Kiko & the Lavender Moon Los Lobos
    Kiko, Slash
  • Havana Moon Chuck Berry
    The Chess Box, MCA
  • Dos Gardenias Buena Vista Social Club
    Buena Vista Social Club, Nonesuch
  • Puerto Rico Los Pleneros de la 21
    Conjunto Melodia, Schanachie
  • Instrumental: On Broadway Tito Puente and His Latin Ensemble
    The Best of the Concord Years, Concord Records
  • SEGMENT: Tito Puente

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  • Instrumental: Sabre Dance Lalo Schifrin
    Mambomania, Verve
  • Girl from Ipanema Antonio Carlos Jobim & Astrud Gilberto
    The Man from Ipanema, Verve
  • Tropicalia Beck
    Mutations, Geffen
  • Okiedoke Machito & his Orchestra featuring Charlie Parker
    The Original Mambo Kings- an intro to Afro-Cubop, Verve
  • End Bed: Tipitina Allen Toussaint
    American Routes recording,

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: Hip Hug Her Chico O'Farrill
    Mambomania Talkin Verve, Verve
  • Acapulco Rock Freddy Fender
    Canciones de Mi Barrio, Arhoolie
  • 96 Tears Question Mark & the Mysterians
    96 Tears , ABKCO
  • Johnny Charasquis Steve Jordan
    The Return of El Parche, Universal
  • Rosa Majeur Queen Ida
    Zydeco, Crescendo
  • Mama Inez Storyville Stompers
    Feel So Good, Rugulator
  • Instrumental: Dr. Jazz Jelly Roll Morton
    Birth of the Hot, RCA/Bluebird
  • SEGMENT: Jelly Roll Morton
  • Rum and Coca Cola Professor Longhair
    Big Chief, Rhino
  • La Linda Guarjira Ramon Veloz
    Guajira y Son Vol. 2, Rodven
  • Tanguedia I Astor Piazzola
    El Nuevo Tango De Buenos Aires, Milan
  • Will O' the Wisp Miles Davis & Gil Evans
    Sketches of Spain , Columbia
  • Instrumental: Las Delicias Beto Villa
    Tejano Roots: Orquestas Tejanas, Arhoolie Records
  • SEGMENT: Nati Cano

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  • La Bamba Los Pregoneros del Puerto
    Music of Veracruz: The Sones Jarochos of Los Pregoneros del Puerto, Rounder
  • La Cucaracha Orquesta Pajaro Azul
    Texas-Mexican Border Music Vol. 1, Folklyric
  • End Bed: Night in Tunisia Sonora Poncena
    Latin Spectrum , BBE

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