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A Music Map of New Orleans Lives - with Creole Jazz Singer John Boutté A Music Map of New Orleans Lives - with Creole Jazz Singer John Boutté December 6th, 2023 (Hour 1)
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 ten kids, where singing was a household and street corner pastime.

Photo by Marc PoKempner

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CARNIVAL KNOWLEDGE: MONK BOUDREAUX, SOUTHERN FRANCE, CONEY ISLAND MERMAID PARADE

February 3rd, 2016

For our annual pre-Lenten bacchanal, we bring you classic Mardi Gras songs from the Crescent City and beyond. We start out at home, where New Orleans’ own Monk Boudreaux walks us through the sites and sounds of Mardi Gras Day. We travel to Nice, France – grand city on the Cote d’Azure – and the vintners village of Limoux , where free glasses of blanchette are never empty. We continue our journey in Coney Island NY , where we hear of carnivalesque revelry at America’s great amusement park by the sea and walk with the fishes in the Mermaid Parade.

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  • Listen to Hour Two

HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Seven-Ay-Pocky-Way Jason Marsalis
    Music in Motion, Basin St
  • Go to the Mardi Gras Professor Longhair
    Mardi Gras in New Orleans , Mardi Gras
  • Goin Back to New Orleans Joe Liggins and the Honeydrippers
    Creole Kings of New Orleans, Specialty
  • Carnival Time Al Johnson
    Mardi Gras in New Orleans, Mardi Gras
  • Meet de Boys on de Battle Front The Wild Tchoupitoulas
    Wild Tchoupitoulas , Mango
  • New Suit The Wild Magnolias
    Mardi Gras in New Orleans, Mardi Gras
  • Instrumental: (Somebody Got) Soul, Soul Soul The Wild Magnolias
    The Wild Magnolias, Polydor
  • SEGMENT: Monk Boudreaux and Mardi Gras Day

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  • Hiko Hiko Donald Harrison
    Indian Blues, Candid
  • Quadrille-Figure-Six Blinky and the Road Masters
    Crucian Scratch Band Music, Rounder
  • Instrumental: Masquerade George Michael, Fred William, Gustin Louis, Wilkinson Girard
    Musical Traditions of St. Lucia, West Indies, Folkways
  • Mardi Gras Coteau
    Highly Seasoned Cajun Music, Rounder
  • SEGMENT: Carnival in Nice and Limoux, France

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  • End Bed: Walking Home Donald Harrison and Dr. John
    Indian Blues , Candid

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: Cyclone Johnny and the Hurricanes
    The Best of Johnny and the Hurricanes Vol 2, Drew's Entertainment
  • Open Bed: Love Roller Coaster Ohio Players
    Honey, Mercury
  • Life is a Carnival The Band
    The Last Waltz, Rhino
  • Coney Island (Live) Al Jolson
    Live in '35!, Mastercorp Pty Ltd
  • Coney Island Washboard Swift Jewel Cowboys
    Western Swing and Country Jazz, JSP
  • SEGMENT: Philomena Marano
  • Love Roller Coaster Big Joe Turner
    The Definitive Blues Collection, Atlantic
  • CLIP: Nick on Wonderwheel
  • Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite! The Beatles
    Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, EMI
  • Instrumental: Twelfth St. Rag Verne Langdon
    Circus Clown Calliope Vols 1-2, Electic Lemon
  • Segment: Philomena Marano
  • Coney Island Steeplechase The Velvet Underground
    Another View, Verve
  • My Flying Saucer Billy Bragg and Wilco
    Mermaid Avenue Vol II , Nonesuch
  • SEGMENT: Stan Fox
  • Carnival Natalie Merchant
    Tigerlily, Elektra
  • Instrumental: Bakers Dozen Mickey Baker
    The WIldest Guitar, Sepia Tone
  • SEGMENT: Ray Valens The Barker
  • Coney Island Baby The Excellents
    Forever Doo Woop Vol 2, Essential Media
  • Freak House Blues Caol Lipnik
    Cloud Girl, Mermaid Alley
  • SEGMENT: Little Miss Firefly
  • SEGMENT: Mermaid Parade, Stanley Foxx
  • Coney Island The Barry Sisters
    Hebrew National Kosher Classics, RCA
  • Under the Boardwalk The Drifters
    Under The Boardwalk, KRB
  • End Bed: Coney Island Rag Robert Bruce
    Silent Movie Piano , Sonoton

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