Jazz Fest / Wild Magnolias
It’s the Crescent City celebration rivaled only by Mardi Gras, the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, a magnet of music, food, and folk art embracing Louisiana and beyond. From Louis Armstrong to zydeco, we’ll sample some of the soundscape and the cuisine of the festival. Plus conversations with visiting singer and musical philosopher Oscar Brown Jr., and an in-depth look at the Wild Magnolias Mardi Gras Indian tribe – a New Orleans institution that’s been featured at every single Jazz Fest since 1970.
HOUR ONE
Open Bed: Rockin' Pneumonia And The Boogie Woogie Flu Huey 'Piano' Smith
Having A Good Time, West Side
(Somebody Got) Soul, Soul, Soul The Wild Magnolias
The Wild Magnolias, PolyGram
Let the Good Times Roll Earl King
Earl's Pearls, West Side
Going Back to New Orleans Joe Liggins & The Honeydrippers
Creole Kings of New Orleans, Specialty
Cakewalk Into Town Taj Mahal
The Best of Taj Mahal, Columbia/Legacy
Ain't Nothin' But a Party The Dirty Dozen Brass Band
Medicated Magic, Rope-A-Dope
Instrumental: New Orleans Blues The Dirty Dozen Brass Band
This Is Jazz: 30, Columbia/Legacy
Frog Legs Lloyd Price
Lawdy!, Specialty
New Suit Wild Magnolias
Mardi Gras in New Orleans, Mardi Gras Records
INTERVIEW: Bo Dollis of the Wild Magnolias
Big Chief Professor Longhair
Ultimate Mardi Gras, Mardi Gras Records
Uninvisible Medeski, Martin & Wood
Uninvisible, Blue Note
Instrumental: Bourbon Street Blues Henry Butler
Blues After Sunset, Black Top
You Talk too Much Joe Jones
Billboard Top Rock 'n' Roll Hits 1960, Rhino
I Know Bonnie Raitt
Give It Up, Warner
Louella Marcia Ball
Presumed Innocent, Alligator
Let the Good Times Roll Buckwheat Zydeco
Buckwheat's Zydeco Party, Rounder
HOUR TWO
Open Bed: Honky Tonk King Curtis
The Best of King Curtis, Capitol
Sleep Walk Santo & Johnny
Hot Rod Rock: Back Seat Movers, The Right Stuff
I Fall to Pieces Patsy Cline
Only Country 1960-64, Cema
Deep Well Of Sadness Ralph Stanley & Jim Lauderdale
Lost In the Lonesome Pines, Dualtone
Pipeliner's Blues Hackberry Ramblers
Cajun Boogie, Hot Biscuits
Cajun Twist Lil Band O Gold
Lil Band O Gold, Shanachie
Instrumental: Aw'Some Funk Snooks Eaglin
Soul's Edge, Black Top
Waymore's Blues Waylon Jennings
The Essential, RCA
Fast Train Solomon Burke
Don't Give Up on Me, Anti
Table Top Joe Tom Waits
Alice, Anti
Somebody Buy Me a Drink Oscar Brown, Jr.
Sin & Soul, Sony
INTERVIEW: Oscar Brown, Jr.
Africa N.O. Los Hombres Calientes
Vol. 3, Basin Street
Adam's Apple Wayne Shorter
The Blue Note Years Vol. 3, Blue Note
You Must Come in at the Bottom Isaac Freeman
Beautiful Stars, Lost Highway
Just a Little While to Stay Here Topsy Chapman
And the Pro's, Jazzology
End Bed: Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans Tuts Washington
New Orleans Piano Professor, Rounder