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Piano People and More: Jason Moran & Heath Allen Piano People and More: Jason Moran & Heath Allen May 31st, 2023 (Hour 1)
Piano People and More: Jason Moran & Heath Allen

Jazz pianist Jason Moran started out in Houston playing classical music, but found his way to jazz through Thelonious Monk. We’ll learn more about his adventures in the NYC jazz scene. Then a conversation and tour around the piano with Philadelphia cabaret player and creator Heath Allen, plus music from Fats Waller, Jerry Lee Lewis, Herbie Hancock, and Sweet Emma.

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VIRTUOSIC JOURNEYS WITH HERBIE HANCOCK AND RHONDA VINCENT

April 21st, 2021

Jazz pianist Herbie Hancock has made a career of being a musical explorer, playing across genres from soul and funk to folk and rock and breaking down musical barriers along the way. Then we visit with mandolin virtuoso Rhonda Vincent, who shares tales of traveling with the family bluegrass band and now playing at the Grand Ol Opry with her own band, the Rage. Plus music from Joni Mitchell, Billie Holiday, Hugh Masekela and Waylon Jennings.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Maiden Voyage Herbie Hancock
    Maiden Voyage, Blue Note
  • Watermelon Man Johnnie Taylor
    Wanted: One Soul Singer, Atlantic
  • Cantaloupe Island Hugh Masekela
    The Lasting Impression of Ooga Booga, Verve
  • Born to Be Blue George Shearing Quintet with Nancy Wilson
    The Swinging's Mutual, Capitol Jazz
  • Blue Cat Power
    Jukebox, Matador
  • Goodbye Pork Pie Hat Joni Mitchell
    Mingus, Asylum
  • Instrumental: Goodbye Pork Pie Hat Pentangle
    Light Flight - The Anthology, Sanctuary Records
  • A Sailboat in the Moonlight Billie Holiday
    Lady Day: The Complete Billie Holiday on Columbia 1933-1944, Columbia
  • How Deep is the Ocean Lonnie Johnson
    The Complete Folkways Recordings, Smithsonian Folkways
  • Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea George Harrison
    Brainwashed, Capitol
  • I'll Sail My Ship Alone Jerry Lee Lewis
    Classic, Bear Family
  • Instrumental: Both Sides Now Herbie Hancock
    River: The Joni Letters, Blue Note
  • Segment: Herbie Hancock

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  • Lay Lady Lay Cassandra Wilson
    Glamoured, Blue Note
  • Big Yellow Taxi Bob Dylan
    Dylan, Columbia
  • End Bed: Both Sides Now Randy Scruggs
    Crown of the Jewels, Reprise

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: Watson's Blues Doc Watson and Bill Monroe
    Live Recordings 1963-1980: Off the Record Volume 2, Smithsonian Folkways
  • Key to the Highway Brownie McGhee
    Blues is Truth, Labor Records
  • That Lonesome Road Rhiannon Giddens
    Factory Girl, Nonesuch
  • I'm A Ramblin' Man Waylon Jennings
    The Essential Waylon, Sony
  • Rambling Boy Charlie Haden with Vince Gill
    Rambling Boy, Decca
  • Ramblin' Charles Lloyd and the Marvels
    Tone Poem, Blue Note
  • Instrumental: Farewell Blues Jim & Jesse
    Hats Off! The Bluegrass Tribute To Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs, CMH Records
  • Mama's Opry Iris Dement
    Infamous Angel, Yep Roc
  • Just Rehearsing Louvin Brothers
    The Family Who Prays, Capitol
  • This Train Sister Rosetta Tharp
    Sister Rosetta Tharp—The Decca Singles, Decca
  • I'm a Honky Tonk Girl Loretta Lynn
    Still Woman Enough, Loretta Lynn Enterprises
  • Car Wheels on a Gravel Road Lucinda Williams
    Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, Mercury
  • Instrumental: Help Me Rhonda Pickin' on the Beach Boys
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  • Salty Dog Blues The Bluegrass Champs
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  • Kentucky Borderline Rhonda Vincent
    Rhonda Vincent—One Step Ahead, Rounder
  • Segment: Rhonda Vincent

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  • End Bed: Son Drop In Rhonda Vincent and the Rage Live

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