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AMERICAN ROUTES ON INSTAGRAM
PIANO PEOPLE AND MORE: JASON MORAN & HEATH ALLEN
Jazz pianist Jason Moran started out in Houston playing classical music, but found his way to jazz through Thelonious Monk. We’ll learn more about his adventures in the NYC jazz scene. Then a conversation and tour around the piano with Philadelphia cabaret player and creator Heath Allen, plus music from Fats Waller, Jerry Lee Lewis, Herbie Hancock, and Sweet Emma.
HOUR ONE
- Open Bed: Moran Tonk Circa 1936 Jason Moran
Modernistic, Blue Note - Cane River Jimmy Witherspoon
The Bluesville Years - Volume One: Big Blues Honks and Wails, Prestige/Fantasy - If You Love Me Like You Say Albert Collins
Collins Mix, The Best of…, Virgin - Jelly Roll Charles Mingus
Mingus Ah-Um, Columbia/Legacy - Dancers in Love Duke Ellington
Piano Reflections, Capitol Jazz - Houston Jump Floyd Dixon
Cow Town Blues: The Seminal 1948-1950, Ace - Instrumental: Chica Boo Lloyd Glenn
Essential Blues Piano, HOB - SEGMENT: Jason Moran
Listen - Dust My Broom Cassandra Wilson
Loverly, Blue Note - Tou' Les Jours C'est Pas La Meme (Every Day Is Not the Same) Carol Fran
Our New Orleans 2005: A Benefit Album, Nonesuch - Instrumental: Lutcher's Leap Nellie Lutcher
Nelly Lutcher and Her Rhythm, Bear Family - Texas Woman Blues Taj Mahal
The Essential Taj Mahal , Columbia/Legacy - Twin Guitar Boogie Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys
For the Last Time, Liberty - Sweet Texas Rose Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown
Down South in the Bayou Country , Sunnyside - Any-Kind-of-Man Victoria Spivey and Her Chicago Four
Blues Masters Vol. 11: Classic Blues Woman, Rhino - Old Man Blues Mose Allison
Gimcracks and Gewgaws, Blue Note - Lucky Old Sun Jerry Lee Lewis
Sun Classics , Charly - End Bed: Rock House Parts 1 & 2 Ray Charles
The Birth of Soul, Atlantic
HOUR two
- Open Bed: Smashin' Thirds Fats Waller
At the Piano (Bluebird’s Best Series), BMG - Piano Man Billy Eckstine and Count Basie
Basie/Eckstine, Inc, Roulette - Must Have Been the Devil Otis Spann
The Blues Never Die, Blues Classics - Funny How Time Slips Away Dr. John
Things Happen That Way , Rounder - Instrumental: Piano Roll Blues Little Willie Littlefield
The Red One, Oldie Blues - Watermelon Man Herbie Hancock
Takin’ Off, Blue Note - St. Louis Blues Herbie Hancock and Stevie Wonder
Gershwin’s World , Verve - Ragged but Right Moon Mullican
I’ll Sail My Ship Alone, Gusto - I'll Sail My Ship Alone Linda Gail Lewis
Moon and Stars, Velcor - Old Kidney Stew Eddie Vinson
Kidney Stew Is Fine, Delmark - None of My Jelly Roll Sweet Emma Barrett
Sweet Emma Barrett and her New Orleans Music, GHB Records - Gumbo Blues Smiley Lewis
Presenting Smiley Lewis, Universal - Instrumental: Nowhere to Go Allen Toussaint
The Wild Sounds of New Orleans, - SEGMENT: Heath Allen
Listen - Closing bed: My Blue Heaven Mary Lou Williams
Black Christ of the Andes, Smithsonian Folkways
