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News Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festivals of Now and Yore: Sonny Rollins, McCoy Tyner, Herlin Riley, Celia Cruz, Lee Konitz, Topsy Chapman & More News Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festivals of Now and Yore: Sonny Rollins, McCoy Tyner, Herlin Riley, Celia Cruz, Lee Konitz, Topsy Chapman & More April 25th, 2018 (Hour 1)
News Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festivals of Now and Yore: Sonny Rollins, McCoy Tyner, Herlin Riley, Celia Cruz, Lee Konitz, Topsy Chapman & More

This week on American Routes, we’re celebrating the long running New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival with songs and interviews from the performers that make the festival happen. We hear from longtime local favorites, like chanteuse Topsy Chapman and funk drummer Herlin Riley, as well as perennial visitors and jazz titans, McCoy Tyner and Sonny Rollins. We’ll delve into the archives to remember the late Cuban songstress Celia Cruz and revisit our interview with saxophonist Lee Konitz, who made his Jazz Fest premier in 2017.

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THE FUNK SOUL UNIVERSE: GALACTIC AND JOE BATAAN

April 25th, 2012

It’s an exploration of the funk universe on American Routes. New York City pioneer of Afro-Latin Soul, Joe Bataan, tells us about his boogaloo beginnings, melding latin beats with soulful sounds and his move toward “salsoul” and rap. And a conversation with Stanton Moore and Ben Ellman from New Orleans’ Galactic about their love of all things funky from the Crescent City and beyond.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Guero Bounce Galactic
    Carnivale Electricos, Anti-
  • Fire on the Bayou The Meters
    Funkify Your Life: The Meters Anthology, Rhino
  • Funky Broadway Wilson Pickett
    The Definitive Collection, Atlantic
  • Funky Kingston Toots and the Maytals
    Time Tough: The Anthology, Chronicles
  • Hook and Sling Eddie Bo
    Funky, Funky New Orleans, Funky Delicacies
  • In the 6th Trombone Shorty
    Backatown, Verve
  • Instrumental: Ease Back The Meters
    Funkify Your Life: The Meters Anthology, Rhino
  • SEGMENT: Galactic

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  • Everything I Do Gohn Be Funky Lee Dorsey
    Soul Mine: The Greatest Hits, Charly
  • Kingdom of Izzness Dr. John
    Locked Down, Nonesuch
  • I Wish Stevie Wonder
    Songs in the Key of Life, Motown
  • Instrumental: Dirty Harri The J.B.'s
    Funky Good Time: the Anthology, Polydor
  • You'll Never Change Bettye LaVette
    Souvenirs, Art & Soul
  • Beating Like a Tom Tom Ernie K-Doe
    Here Come the Girls, Charly
  • There is Something On Your Mind Professor Longhair
    New Orleans Soul '60s: Watch Records, Mardi Gras
  • Cantaloupe Island Herbie Hancock
    Empyrean Isles, Blue Note
  • End Bed: Watermelon Man Mongo Santamaria
    Skin on Skin, Rhino

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: Chili Beans Joe Bataan
    Mr. New York and the East Side Kids, Fania
  • Summertime Blues The Lebron Brothers
    Psychedelic Goes Latin, Boso
  • Bang! Bang! Joe Cuba
    Greatest Hits, Fania
  • Kiko and the Lavender Moon Los Lobos
    Kiko, Slash/ Warner Bros.
  • Times are Changin' (Los Tiempos Cambian) Jimmy Sabater
    Solo, Tico
  • The In Crowd Ramsey Lewis
    Rock Instrumental Classics Vol. 4: Soul, Rhino
  • Soul Power Walter Wolfman Washington and Smokey Johnson
    Funky Funky New Orleans, Funky Delicacies
  • Instrumental: Sabor Tipico The Lebron Brothers
    Salsa Y Control, Fania
  • SEGMENT: Joe Bataan

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  • Hey Sister Monguito Santamaria
    Hey Sister, Fania
  • Little Sister Elvis Presley
    From Nashville to Memphis: The Essential 60s Masters, RCA
  • Bold Soul Sister Ike and Tina Turner
    Bold Soul Sister: The Blue Thumb Recordings, Hip-O
  • Instrumental: I Want to Thank You Lonnie Smith
    Live at Club Mozambique, Blue Note
  • Honey, Honey Ray Charles
    Ray Charles: 1949-1950, Classics
  • My Kind of Girl Frank Sinatra and Count Basie
    Sinatra - Basie, Reprise
  • Spanish Harlem Ben E. King
    Atlantic Rhythm And Blues 1947-1974, Atlantic
  • Lucy's Spanish Harlem Louie Ramirez
    In the Heart of Spanish Harlem, Mercury
  • Long Way Home (Back to New Orleans) Los Poboycitos
    Brand New Dance, superultramega
  • End Bed: The Point Dr. John
    Still Spicy Gumbo Stew, Ace

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