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AMERICAN ROUTES ON INSTAGRAM
VISUALIZING MUSIC
How do we “see” sound? Local artist Bruce Brice depicts the big sounds and scenes of New Orleans in murals; and photographer Herman Leonard tells us about a half century chronicling the greatest jazz players. Plus Lafcadio Hearn’s meditations on the blueing water enroute to the French West Indies. Hear music from Bo Diddley, Van Morrison, Billie Holiday, Mose Allison and more.
HOUR ONE
- Open Bed: Twang Jack Costanzo
Ultra Lounge: Bottoms-Up!, Capitol - I Used to be Color Blind Anita O'Day
Blue Skies: The Irving Berlin Songbook, Verve - My Blue Heaven Delta Rhythm Boys
Jump & Jive ‘Til 1 O'Clock: Anthology Vol.2, Dee-Jay - Who Do You Love? Bo Diddley
His Best, MCA/Chess - Subterranean Homesick Blues Bob Dylan
Bringing It All Back Home, Columbia - I'll Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms New Lost City Ramblers
Troubadors of the Folk Era Vol.3, Rhino - Oh Babe, it Ain't No Lie Elizabeth Cotton
There is No Eye: Music for Photographs, Folkways - Instrumental: Satin Doll Joe Pass
The Best of Joe Pass, Pablo - INTERVIEW: Photographer Herman Leonard
Listen - The Single Petal of a Rose Duke Ellington
The Ellington Suites, Pablo - I'm Gonna Paint the Town Red Billie Holiday
The Billie Holiday story vol.2, Columbia - Instrumental: Deep Purple / ‘S Wonderful Dr. Samuel Hoffman
Ultra Lounge: Bottoms-Up!, Capitol - Sentimental Journey Esquivel
Cabaret Mañana, RCA - Muddy Ken Nordine
Colors, Phillips - Rollin' Stone (alt. version) Muddy Waters
Rollin' Stone: The Golden Anniversary Collection, MCA - (I Washed My Hands in) Muddy Water Johnny Rivers
Johnny Rivers Anthology, 1964-1977, Rhino - Cotton Picker Eddie Cochran
Legendary Masters Series, United Artists - Cotton Fields Harry Belafonte
Very Best of…, BMG
HOUR two
- Open Bed: Aries Mary Lou Williams
Zodiac Suite, Smithsonian/Folkways - Gemini Mary Lou Williams
Zodiac Suite, Smithsonian/Folkways - Eyesight to the Blind Mose Allison
Greatest Hits, Prestige - Eyesight to the Blind Sonny Boy Williamson
Blues Masters Vol.8: Mississippi Blues Masters, Rhino - Fine Brown Frame Nellie Lutcher
Best Of Nellie Lutcher, Capitol - John Henry Van Morrison
The Philosopher's Stone, Polydor - Instrumental: Paint It Black Brent Truitt
Bluegrass Then & Now, CMH - Long Black Veil Jerry Garcia, David Grisman, Tony Rice
The Pizza Tapes, Acoustic Disc - At the Crossroads The Bottle Rockets
Songs of Sahm, Bloodshot - See God's Ark A Movin' Johnson Mountain Boys
Blue Diamond, Rounder - Wade in the Water Eva Cassidy
Songbird, Blix Street - Instrumental: Blue Clarinet Stomp #2 Johnny Dodds
Blues Clarinet Stomp / The Legendary Classic Jazz Clarinetist, BMG - SEGMENT: Lafcadio Hearn's "Two Years in the French West Indies" read by Eric Bookhardt
Listen - Blue Horizon Sidney Bechet
Hot Jazz on Blue Note, Blue Note - INTERVIEW: Painter Bruce Brice
Listen - City Beat Wynton Marsalis Septet
Citi Movement: Girot New York, Columbia - End Bed: St. James Infirmary Mahogany Brass Band
Mahogany Brass Band, Sound of N.O.
