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Celebrating the National Heritage Fellows

Join us this Memorial Day weekend to celebrate the National Endowment for the Arts Heritage Fellows. Each year, the NEA recognizes traditional artists for their excellence and contributions to our nation’s heritage. It’s the highest award in the traditional arts. This year’s honorees include: Filipino rondalla musician Tagumpay Mendoza De Leon; Osage ribbon worker and ceramicist Anita Fields; documentary filmmaker and preservationist Tom Davenport; Louisiana’s Winnsboro Easter Rock gospel ensemble; Hill Country blues drummer and guitarist Cedric Burnside; Puerto Rican mundillo lace weaver Nellie Vera; Irish flute and whistle maven Joanie Madden; Chicago tap dancer Reginald “Reggio the Hoofer” McLaughlin; and the Mexican American band from East Los Angeles, Los Lobos. Plus music from prior awardees including Del McCoury, Mavis Staples, Dr. Michael White and John Lee Hooker.

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HOW TO IMPROVISE: BELA FLECK AND JASON MARSALIS

October 3rd, 2012

This week we meet with two practitioners of the art of improvisation. Bela Fleck joins us for a conversation about banjo traditions and experimentation in bluegrass, jazz and classical music. Then we’ll head to the studio for a jazz breakdown by New Orleans master percussionist Jason Marsalis.

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HOUR ONE

  • Prickly Pear Bela Fleck
    Rocket Science, E One
  • Eh, La Bas Preservation Hall Jazz Band with Don Vappie
    Shake that Thing, Preservation Hall
  • Just Because Jorma Kaukonen with Bela Fleck
    Blue Country Heart, Columbia
  • Whitewater Bela Fleck
    Drive, Rounder
  • John Henry Joe and Odell Thompson
    Black Banjo Songsters of North Carolina and Virginia, Smithsonian Folkways
  • Blue Tail Fly Abner Jay
    Blues Routes: Heroes & Tricksters, Smithsonian Folkways
  • Polly Wolly Doodle Leon Redbone
    On the Track, Warner Bros.
  • Instrumental: Funky Banjo Don Vappie
    Banjo a la Creole, Vapielle
  • Glendale Train New Riders of the Purple Sage
    New Riders of the Purple Sage, Columbia
  • CLIP: Jerry Garcia
  • Foggy Mountain Breakdown Flatt & Scruggs
    Complete Mercury Sessions, Mercury
  • CLIP: Earl Scruggs
  • SEGMENT: Bela Fleck

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  • Instrumental: Sugar Baby Bill Frisell
    The Willies, Nonesuch
  • Cluck Old Hen Noam Pikelny & Steve Martin
    Beat The Devil and Carry A Rail, Compass
  • No One Knows My Name Gillian Welch
    Soul Journey, Acony
  • 21st Century Chicken Shack Back Blues Andy Statman
    Old Brooklyn, Shefa
  • Soul of a Man Carter Brothers
    The Road to Roosky, Compass
  • End Bed: Waterbound Dirk Powell
    Time Again, Rounder Select

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: Guess Who's Back? Jason Marsalis
    Music Update, Elm
  • Rhythm Is Our Business Jimmie Lunceford
    Swingsation, Universal
  • Bourbon Street Parade The Young Tuxedo Brass Band
    The Atlantic New Orleans Jazz Sessions, Mosaic
  • I Got Rhythm Felix Mendelssohn & the Hawaiian Serenaders
    Blue Hawaii, Living Era
  • Till Tom Special Charlie Christian with Benny Goodman Sextet
    The Genius of the Electric Guitar, Columbia
  • It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) The Modern Jazz Quartet
    Les Incontournables, Warner Jazz/ Rhino
  • Blues for the 29%ers (Down to 19) Jason Marsalis
    Music Update, Elm
  • Instrumental: Mamblues Cal Tjader
    Cal Tjader's Greatest Hits, Fantasy
  • SEGMENT: Jason Marsalis

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  • Instrumental: Rhythm-A-Ning Thelonious Monk
    This is Jazz 5: Thelonious Monk, Columbia
  • Laughing in Rhythm Slim Gaillard
    Laughing in Rhythm: The Best of the Verve Years, Verve
  • My Feet Can't Fail Me Now The Dirty Dozen Brass Band
    Our New Orleans: A Benefit Album 2005, Nonesuch
  • Doin' the New Low Down Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson
    Stars of the Apollo, Columbia
  • Get Rhythm Johnny Cash
    The Essential Johnny Cash, Columbia
  • Gotta Lot of Rhythm in My Soul Patsy Cline
    The Essential Patsy Cline, RCA
  • You are My Sunshine Smiley Lewis
    Shame, Shame, Shame, Bear Family
  • End Bed: Will the Circle Be Unbroken Dr. Michael White with Jason Marsalis
    Blue Crescent, Basin Street

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