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Recording New Orleans: Basin Street Records with Jon Cleary & Kermit Ruffins Recording New Orleans: Basin Street Records with Jon Cleary & Kermit Ruffins July 6th, 2022 (Hour 1)
Recording New Orleans: Basin Street Records with Jon Cleary & Kermit Ruffins

New Orleans’ own Basin Street Records is a homegrown record label featuring superstars of the local sound like the Rebirth Brass Band, Davell Crawford, Jason Marsalis and Kermit Ruffins. The label got its start with a live recording of Kermit’s band at the Uptown club Tipitina’s in 1997. Now, over two decades later and several Grammy Awards under its belt, Basin Street Records still holds true to the sounds of New Orleans. We talk with Basin Street founder Mark Samuels about the label’s history. We listen in on the artists who call it home, including Jon Cleary, whose “Quarantini Sessions” streamed live from his Funk Headquarters in the 9th Ward and helped us get through these challenging times. Then, a live concert and conversation with Kermit Ruffins & the Barbecue Swingers from Esplanade Studios in the Historic Treme neighborhood of New Orleans.

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LATIN TINGE: TITO PUENTE AND NATI CANO

September 20th, 2017

For National Hispanic Heritage Month, we’re celebrating the “Latin tinge” in American music. We’ll hear a classic interview with the late Nuyorican bandleader and King of the Timbales, Tito Puente, who tells us about the roots of tropical Latin jazz in Spanish Harlem. Then, it’s off to the West Coast, where we visit the Los Angeles club of the late, great bandleader Nati Cano. As leader of Mariachi Los Camperos, Nati Cano was a central figure in the Mexican Mariachi scene of East LA. All this, plus music from Dizzy Gillespie, Lalo Guerrero, Los Lobos, Buena Vista Social Club, Freddy Fender, Professor Longhair and more.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: El Cayuco Tito Puente
    Dance Mania Vol. 1, BMG
  • Night in Tunisia Dizzy Gillespie
    The Complete RCA Victor Recordings, RCA
  • Los Chucos Suaves Lalo Guerrero
    Pachuco Boogie, Arhoolie
  • Kiko & the Lavender Moon Los Lobos
    Kiko, Slash
  • Havana Moon Chuck Berry
    The Chess Box, MCA
  • Dos Gardenias Buena Vista Social Club
    Buena Vista Social Club, Nonesuch
  • Puerto Rico Los Pleneros de la 21
    Conjunto Melodia, Schanachie
  • Instrumental: On Broadway Tito Puente and His Latin Ensemble
    The Best of the Concord Years, Concord Records
  • SEGMENT: Tito Puente

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  • Instrumental: Sabre Dance Lalo Schifrin
    Mambomania, Verve
  • Girl from Ipanema Antonio Carlos Jobim & Astrud Gilberto
    The Man from Ipanema, Verve
  • Tropicalia Beck
    Mutations, Geffen
  • Okiedoke Machito & his Orchestra featuring Charlie Parker
    The Original Mambo Kings- an intro to Afro-Cubop, Verve
  • End Bed: Tipitina Allen Toussaint
    American Routes recording,

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: Hip Hug Her Chico O'Farrill
    Mambomania Talkin Verve, Verve
  • Acapulco Rock Freddy Fender
    Canciones de Mi Barrio, Arhoolie
  • 96 Tears Question Mark & the Mysterians
    96 Tears , ABKCO
  • Johnny Charasquis Steve Jordan
    The Return of El Parche, Universal
  • Rosa Majeur Queen Ida
    Zydeco, Crescendo
  • Mama Inez Storyville Stompers
    Feel So Good, Rugulator
  • Instrumental: Dr. Jazz Jelly Roll Morton
    Birth of the Hot, RCA/Bluebird
  • SEGMENT: Jelly Roll Morton
  • Rum and Coca Cola Professor Longhair
    Big Chief, Rhino
  • La Linda Guarjira Ramon Veloz
    Guajira y Son Vol. 2, Rodven
  • Tanguedia I Astor Piazzola
    El Nuevo Tango De Buenos Aires, Milan
  • Will O' the Wisp Miles Davis & Gil Evans
    Sketches of Spain , Columbia
  • Instrumental: Las Delicias Beto Villa
    Tejano Roots: Orquestas Tejanas, Arhoolie Records
  • SEGMENT: Nati Cano

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  • La Bamba Los Pregoneros del Puerto
    Music of Veracruz: The Sones Jarochos of Los Pregoneros del Puerto, Rounder
  • La Cucaracha Orquesta Pajaro Azul
    Texas-Mexican Border Music Vol. 1, Folklyric
  • End Bed: Night in Tunisia Sonora Poncena
    Latin Spectrum , BBE

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