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AMERICAN ROUTES ON INSTAGRAM
CLASSICAL ROUTES
For too long classical and popular music have existed in different worlds, and on this American Routes we’ll take a look at where those worlds have actually collided: how high art music crosses over with the folk, jazz, and avant-garde forms. Music from George Gershwin, Duke Ellington, Scott Joplin, Stephen Foster, Mark O’Connor and Steve Reich. Plus the adventures of 19th century New Orleans pianist Louis Moreau Gottschalk. It’s roots with strings on American Routes.
HOUR ONE
- Open Bed: Creole Eyes Tom McDermott & Evan Christopher
Danza, STR - Chopin's One Minute Waltz James Booker
Let's Make a Better World: Live in Leipzig, Black Sun Music - The Entertainer Marcus Roberts
Joy of Joplin, Sony - I Thought I Heard Buddy Bolden Say Jelly Roll Morton
Jazzin' The Blues, Westside - Instrumental: Kismet Rag Scott Joplin
King of Ragtime Writers, Biograph - SEGMENT: Fred Starr on Gottschalk
Listen - Symphony No.1 (Afro-American): I. Moderato assai William Grant Still
Still: Symphony No.1 / Ellington: 'River' Suite - Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Chandos - Concerto for Cootie Duke Ellington
Battle of the Bands Duke Ellington vs. Count Basie, BMG - Instrumental: Rhapsody In Blue George Gershwin
Gershwin Plays Gershwin: The Piano Rolls, Nonesuch - CLIP: Wynton Marsalis
- Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child Wynton Marsalis
Portrait, Sony - Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child Paul Robeson
Songs of Free Men 1940-1945, Sony Classical - Indiana Art Tatum
The Complete Capitol Recordings, Capitol - I Loves You Porgy Nina Simone
My Baby Just Cares For Me, Charly - Novelty Abridgement of Rhapsody in Blue Borah Minnivitch & Harmonica Rascals
From Gershwin's Time: 1920-1945, Sony Classical - O, Susanna Carson Robison & His Pioneers
Home, Sweet Home on the Prairie, ASV
HOUR two
- Open Bed: Schizoozy Yo-Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer, Mark O'Connor
Appalachia Waltz, Sony - Russian Rag Lieut. Jim Europe and the 369th Hell Fighter Band
The Complete Recordings, Memphis Archives - Julian En El Cabaret Orquesta Tipica Criolla
The Cuban Danzon: Before There Was Jazz 1906-1929, Arhoolie - Will O' The Wisp Miles Davis and Gil Evans
Sketches of Spain, Columbia - CLIP: Hannibal Lokumbe
- Libation: Harvest, 16th Century West Africa - Girot: 'Dafengba! Hannibal
Hannibal: African Portraits, TELDEC - Electric Counterpoint (Slow) Steve Reich and Pat Metheny
Different Trains / Electric Counterpoint, Elektra/Nonesuch - Emanuele Arciuli, piano
Live at the Miller Theatre in 2002, U of Cincinnati, - Round Midnight Thelonious Monk
Thelonious Monk, Blue Note - Lament I Moondog
Moondog, CBS - Instrumental: Elegy for William Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg Brad Mehldau
Elegiac Cycle, Warner - Minor Swing Django Reinhardt
The Best of Django Reinhardt, Blue Note - Sweet Georgia Brown Yehudi Menuhin & Stephane Grappelli
Jalousie, Angel - CLIP: Mark O'Connor
- 1B Yo Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer and Mark O'Connor
Appalachian Journey, Sony Classical - Artistry In Western Swing Tex Williams & His Western Caravan
Heroes of Country Music Vol.1, Rhino - Instrumental: Sonata V John Cage
Cage: Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano, Naxos - Crossroads Turtle Island String Quartet
A Retrospective, Windham Hill - Roll Over Beethoven Charlie Feathers
Honky Tonk Man, New Rose - Prolog Marianne Faithful
The Seven Deadly Sins, RCA - Marie Randy Newman
Good Old Boys, Reprise - Rhapsody in Blue George Gershwin & Paul Whiteman
Historic Gershwin Recordings, Sony - End Bed: Aunt Hagar's Blues James P. Johnson
The Original James P. Johnson 1942-45, Folkways
