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Reimagining Kentucky Country Music & New Orleans Jazz with Kelsey Waldon and Aurora Nealand Reimagining Kentucky Country Music & New Orleans Jazz with Kelsey Waldon and Aurora Nealand March 22nd, 2023 (Hour 1)
Reimagining Kentucky Country Music & New Orleans Jazz with Kelsey Waldon and Aurora Nealand

Country singer Kelsey Waldon grew up in the Ohio River bottoms of Ballard County Kentucky-a place called “Monkey’s Eyebrow” where her family has farmed for generations. She tells us about her journey as a songwriter, and her friendship with another hero of Kentucky, John Prine. Then a live set of New Orleans jazz and its Caribbean cousins with the widely acclaimed multi-instrumentalist, Aurora Nealand and her quartet at Artisound Studios in New Orleans 9th Ward.

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HOW TO IMPROVISE: BELA FLECK & JASON MARSALIS

May 6th, 2015

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 Adner 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, Vappielle
  • Glendale Train New Riders of the Purple Sage
    New Riders of the Purple Sage, Columbia
  • CLIP: Jerry Garcia
  • Foggy Mountain Breakdown Flatt and 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 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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