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JAZZ FEST WITH EARL PALMER

This week, the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival is in full swing. We’ll have music of Festival artists from South Louisiana and beyond, and talk with the drummer who put the backbeat into rock & roll, Earl Palmer. Also, as a tribute to Duke Ellington on the occasion of the centennial of his birth, we’ll hear his “New Orleans Suite.”

HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Bogalusa Strut Kermit Ruffins
    Swing This!, Basin Street
  • New Orleans Hop Scop Blues Bessie Smith
    Any Woman's Blues, Columbia
  • Going Back to New Orleans Dr. John
    The Very Best of Dr. John, Rhino
  • Dream in Blue Los Lobos
    Kiko, Slash/Warner Brothers
  • Lonely Nights Willie Nelson
    Teatro, Island
  • Instrumental: We Shall Walk Through the Streets of the City Percy Humphrey
    New Orleans: The Living Legends - Percy Humphrey's Crescent City Joymakers, Riverside
  • Leaving Louisiana Marcia Ball
    Circuit Queen, Capitol
  • You Are My Sunshine Ray Charles
    The Complete Country & Western Recordings 1959-1986, Rhino
  • Sufferin' With the Blues Nancy Wilson
    The Best of Nancy Wilson: The Jazz and Blues Sessions, Capitol
  • INTERVIEW: Earl Palmer
  • Instrumental: Doudou Moin Sam Castendet et son orchestre créole
    Biguine à la Canne à Sucre 1946-1949, Frémeaux & Associés
  • Manman Ou Tébè Sam Castendet et son orchestre antillais
    Biguine à la Canne à Sucre 1946-1949, Frémeaux & Associés
  • Zydeco Hee Haw Boozoo Chavis
    Boozoo Chavis, Nonesuch Explorer
  • Eh La Bas Corey Harris
    Greens from the Garden, Alligator
  • Life is a Carnival Wild Magnolias
    Life is a Carnival, Metro Blue
  • Without a Song The Isley Brothers
    Shout: The RCA Sessions, RCA

HOUR two

  • C Jam Blues Duke Ellington and his Orchestra
    Battle of the Bands: Duke Ellington vs. Count Basie, RCA Victor
  • Duke's Place Louis Armstrong
    Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington: The Complete Sessions, Capitol
  • New Orleans Suite, Part 1 (with commentary by Terence Blanchard ) Duke Ellington & Orchestra
    New Orleans Suite, Atlantic Jazz
  • Instrumental: In a Sentimental Mood Duke Ellington
    Piano Reflections, Capitol
  • New Orleans Suite, Part 2 (with commentary by Terence Blanchard ) Duke Ellington & Orchestra
    New Orleans Suite, Atlantic Jazz
  • Instrumental: Things Ain't What They Used To Be Duke Ellington
    Piano Reflections, Capitol
  • New Orleans Suite, Part 3 (with commentary by Terence Blanchard) Duke Ellington & Orchestra
    New Orleans Suite, Atlantic Jazz
  • End Bed: Degas' Racing World Terence Blanchard
    Jazz in Film, Sony

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