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AMERICAN ROUTES ON INSTAGRAM
DAVID AMRAM & MARCUS ROBERTS
We profile two men that begin in classical and jazz and move in differing directions. Buttressed by a conservatory background, French horn player and composer David Amram moves freely and eclectically across genres of Latin, jazz, folk and classical music. Blind pianist Marcus Roberts speaks about his time spent as protégé of Wynton Marsalis and looks back over the history of jazz to his touchstones, James P. Johnson, Monk, Jelly Roll Morton and others.
HOUR ONE
- Open Bed: New Orleans Blues Marcus Roberts
New Orleans Meets Harlem, - Doctor Jazz Jelly Roll Morton
Birth of the Hot, Bluebird - Slim's Jam Slim Gaillard
The Savoy Story: Volume One - Jazz, Savoy Jazz - Ain't She Sweet Willie the Lion Smith
Music On My Mind, Universal - They Can't Take That Away From Me Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong
The Complete Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong, Verve - Sweet Lorraine Nat 'King' Cole
The Definitive Nat 'King' Cole, Blue Note - Instrumental: The Crave Jelly Roll Morton
Last Sessions, GRP - INTERVIEW: Marcus Roberts
Listen - Instrumental: Jungle Blues Marcus Roberts
Alone With Three Giants, BMG - Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out Billie and DeDe Pierce
New Orleans: The Living Legends, Riverside - Trouble in Mind Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Essential Women in Blues, HOB - Mood Indigo Charlie Rich
Pictures and Paintings, Sire/Warner Bros. - Groove Waltz McCoy Tyner
Nights Of Blues & Ballads, Impulse! - Driftin' Blues Sam Cooke
The Rhythm and the Blues, RCA - End Bed: Tipitina Allen Toussaint
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HOUR two
- Open Bed: Travelling Blues David Amram & Friends
At Home / Around the World, Flying Fish - One O'Clock Jump Lambert, Hendricks & Ross
Sing A Song of Basie, Verve - Don't Get Around Much Anymore Mose Allison
Greatest Hits, Prestige - Stay All Night (Stay A Little Longer) Bob Wills and His Texas Palyboys
For the Last Time, Liberty - Dipper Mouth Blues Arturo Sandoval
Trumpet Evolution, Crescent Moon/Columbia - Instrumental: West End Blues King Oliver and His Orchestra
1929-1930, JSP - Oop-Pop-A-Da Dizzy Gillespie
The Complete RCA Victor Recordings, Bluebird - Ooh Poo Pah Doo (Part 1) Jessie Hill
Crescent City Soul: The Sound of New Orleans 1947 - 1974, EMI - If Dogs Run Free Bob Dylan
New Morning, Columbia - Pull My Daisy David Amram Quintet w/Lynn Sheffield
The Beat Generation, Rhino/Word Beat - INTERVIEW: David Amram
Listen - Instrumental: I'll Fly Away John Medeski, The North Mississippi Allstars, and Robert Randolf
The Word, Ropadope - Lord, Give Me Just a Little More Time Marty Stuart
Souls' Chapel, Superlatone - (Jesus Hits Like the) Atom Bomb The Blind Boys of Alabama
Atom Bomb, Real World - Christo Redemptor Charlie Musselwhite
Stand Back! Here Comes Charlie Musselwhite's South Side Band, Vanguard - House of the Rising Sun The Animals
The Complete Animals, EMI - Amen Jolie Holland
Escondida, Anti - End Bed: Basin Street Blues Henry Butler
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