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AMERICAN ROUTES ON INSTAGRAM
A MUSIC MAP OF NEW ORLEANS LIVES - WITH CREOLE JAZZ SINGER JOHN BOUTTé
It’s a sonic map of New Orleans music from the recording studios and nightclubs to jazz parades. Songs about life on Basin Street and Bourbon Street, to Rampart Street and the lady from la rue Dauphine in the voices of Trombone Shorty, Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Ida Cox and Louis Prima. Then, a live session at Marigny Studios with Creole jazz and soul singer John Boutté who grew up in the Tremé neighborhood in a family of 10 kids, where singing was a household and street corner pastime.
Photo by Marc PoKempner
HOUR ONE
- Open Bed: The Music Goes Round & Around Louis Armstrong
Louis Armstrong-Decca Singles 1935-1946, Decca - Trombone Cholly Bessie Smith
The Essential Bessie Smith, Columbia - Bourbon Street Parade James Andrews and Trombone Shorty
Brothers, James Andrews - Basin Street Blues Mills Brothers
Great Hits, UMG - Way Down Yonder in New Orleans Merle Travis
Merle Travis Strictly Guitar, Capitol - King of the Road James Booker
James Booker Classified, Rounder - Instrumental: Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans Tuts Washington
New Orleans Piano Professor, Rounder - Louisiana Percy Mayfield
Percy Mayfield—Poet of the Blues, Specialty - I Need Your Love So Bad Irma Thomas
Irma Thomas—Wish Someone Would Care, Imperial - I Won't Cry Johnny Adams
Heart and Soul, Sun - Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans Billie Holliday
Portrait of an Artist 1935-1946, Crisler - Mama Don't Allow It Wendel Brunious and the New Orleans Roof Jazzmen
Mama Don't Allow It, GHB Records - Instrumental: Basin Street Blues Dr. Michael White
Adventures in New Orleans Jazz Part 1, Basin Street - I've Got the Blues for Rampart Street Ida Cox
The Uncrowned Queen of the Blues, Black Swan Records - Salee Dame Baby Dodds, Albert Nicholas, Danny Barker, James P. Johnson, Pops Foster
Jazz a Créole, GHB Records - Bourbon Street Blues Louis Prima, Sam Butera & the Witnesses
Strictly Prima, Capitol - Music is My Life Lillian Boutté
Music is My Life, Timeless Records - Careless Love Fats Domino
"They Call Me the Fat Man"—Antoine 'Fats' Domino, Capitol - End Bed: Doc's Delight Doctor John, Wardell Quezergue and others
Wardell Quezergue-After the Math-The St. Agnes Sessions, Jazz Foundation of America
HOUR two
- Open Bed: Improvisation 1 Oscar Rossignoli
American Routes Live at Marigny Studios, - Basin Street Blues John Boutté
American Routes Live at Marigny Studios, - Sisters John Boutté
American Routes Live at Marigny Studios, - Grits Ain't Groceries (All Around the World) John Boutté
American Routes Live at Marigny Studios, - Instrumental: Improvisation 2 Oscar Rossignoli
American Routes Live at Marigny Studios, - Good Neighbors John Boutté
American Routes Live at Marigny Studios, - At the Foot of Canal Street John Boutté
American Routes Live at Marigny Studios, - Beautiful City John Boutté
American Routes Live at Marigny Studios, - Little Red Rooster John Boutté
American Routes Live at Marigny Studios, - Instrumental: Improvisation 3 Oscar Rossignoli
American Routes Live at Marigny Studios, - Treme Song John Boutté
American Routes Live at Marigny Studios, - Change is Gonna Come John Boutté
American Routes Live at Marigny Studios, - SEGMENT: John Boutté
Listen - Build a Better World John Boutté
American Routes Live at Marigny Studios, - End Bed: Improvisation 4 Oscar Rossignoli
American Routes Live at Marigny Studios,
