NEW ORLEANS JAZZ CLARINET, MANDE SONGS & LOUISIANA ZYDECO LIVE

It’s New Orleans jazz clarinet in street parades and clubs. We’ll hear clarinet in the hands of past and present legends: George Lewis, Sidney Bechet, Dr. Michael White and Aurora Nealand, plus a conversation with a sometime New Orleans clarinet virtuoso, Evan Christopher. Then, a live cultural exchange between French Louisiana and West Africa with singer, percussionist and dancer Sidiki Conde from Guinea and zydeco accordionist, cultural historian and sometime alligator wrangler, Bruce “Sunpie” Barnes.

HOUR ONE

Open Bed: “Bourbon Street Parade” Paul Barbarin 
Atlantic Jazz: New Orleans (Atlantic)

“Salée Dame” Baby Dodds Trio 
Jazz a’la Créole (GHB) 

“The Cabbage Song (How Come You Do Me Like You Do?)”  Willie Humphrey, Brian O’Connell 
Two Clarinets on the Porch (GHB)

 “Down By the Riverside” George Lewis Band 
Jazz at Preservation Hall: The George Lewis Band of New Orleans (Atlantic) 

“London Canal Breakdown” Dr. Michael White 
Blue Crescent (Basin Street) 

Instrumental: “Wolverine Blues” Baby Dodds
Jazz a’la Créole (GHB)

“Douce ambiance” Django Reinhardt, Quintette du Hot Club de France
Djangologie Vol 13/1942-1943 (Parlophone) 

“La Ville Jacmel” Don Vappie & Jazz Créole 
The Blue Book of Storyville (Lejazzetal)  

SEGMENT: Evan Christopher

Instrumental: “Summertime” Sidney Bechet
The Best of Sidney Bechet (Blue Note)

“Milk Cow Blues” Sidney Bechet 
Triple Best of (Capitol) 

“Take Me Back to Tulsa”  Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys
Together Again (Capitol)

“Blue Horizon” Aurora Nealand and the Royal Roses  
A Tribute To Sidney Bechet : Live at Preservation Hall, New Orleans (Aurora Nealand)

“Glory Glory Hallelujah” Doreen Ketchens
Guardians of Our Culture–Volume XXV Takin’ It to the Streets (DJNO Records) 

“We Shall Walk Through the Streets of the City” Treme Brass Band
New Orleans Brass Bands: Through the Streets of the City (Smithsonian Folkways)    

Closing Bed: “Blues for Bechet” Jacques Gauthé
Echoes of Sidney Bechet (Good Time Jazz) 

HOUR TWO

Open Bed: “Matt’s Song” Sidiki Conde and Friends
American Routes original recording

“Dinye Kimba” Sidiki Conde and Friends
American Routes original recording

“Na Desuba” Sidiki Conde and Friends
American Routes original recording

Instrumental: “Creole Nights” Dr. Michael White
Dancing in the Sky (Basin Street Blues)

“Marie Laveau” Bruce “Sunpie” Barnes and Friends
American Routes original recording

“I'm So Happy to Be Alive Today” Bruce “Sunpie” Barnes and Friends
American Routes original recording

“Trail Ride” Bruce “Sunpie” Barnes and Friends
American Routes original recording

Instrumental: “Alligator Bogaloo” Lou Donaldson
Alligator Bogaloo (Blue Note)

“Tomato Song” Bruce “Sunpie” Barnes and Friends
American Routes original recording

“Baby Please Don’t Go” Bruce “Sunpie” Barnes and Friends
American Routes original recording

End Bed: “Joe Pitre a deux femmes (Joe Pitre Got Two Women)” Bruce "Sunpie" Barnes and Michael Doucet
A New Orleans Visit: Before Katrina (Smithsonian Folkways)

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