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Ellis Marsalis Remembered: Family Memories & Music With Branford, Wynton, Delfeayo and Jason Marsalis Ellis Marsalis Remembered: Family Memories & Music With Branford, Wynton, Delfeayo and Jason Marsalis March 29th, 2023 (Hour 1)
Ellis Marsalis Remembered: Family Memories & Music With Branford, Wynton, Delfeayo and Jason Marsalis

There is no more recognizable family name in jazz from New Orleans and beyond than: Marsalis. We’re paying tribute to the late pianist Ellis Marsalis Jr. who passed of Covid-19 in April 2020, and to his musical sons Branford (saxophone), Wynton (trumpet), Delfeayo (trombone) and Jason (drums and vibraphone). The conversation ranges from coming of age in a family of musicians, with expectations of performing at the highest level, to the interplay of traditional and modern jazz in New Orleans. Previously unheard are Wynton’s remarkable memorial oration and a live set with youngest son Jason Marsalis playing the music of his late father. It’s the enduring and thriving musical legacy of the Marsalis family this week on American Routes.

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NEW ORLEANS JAZZ BANJO/GUITARIST DANNY BARKER & AMERICAN ROUTES LIVE WITH DETROIT BROOKS AND HIS SYNCOPATED PERCOLATORS

March 1st, 2023

New Orleans musician and raconteur Danny Barker was a banjo and guitar hero – a major player in New York jazz who never forgot his French Creole roots in song and style. We look back on Danny’s career, his life with wife and collaborator, the singer Blue Lu Barker, and his influence sustaining culture in the Crescent City. Then, current day guitar and banjo man, Detroit Brooks pays tribute to the Barker legacy with his band the Syncopated Percolators live at the New Orleans Jazz Museum.

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  • Listen to Hour Two

HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Danny's Banjo Blues Danny Barker
    Danny Barker—New Orleans Jazz Man and Raconteur, GHB Records
  • Tootie Ma is a Big Fine Thing Danny Barker and His Creole Cats
    Danny Barker—New Orleans Jazz Man and Raconteur, GHB Records
  • Stompin' at the Savoy Danny Barker guitar w. Jonah Jones and His Swingin' Band
    Danny Barker—New Orleans Jazz Man and Raconteur, GHB Records
  • Creole Blues Albert Nicholas and His Creole Serenaders
    Danny Barker—New Orleans Jazz Man and Raconteur,
  • Salée Dame Albert Nicholas and His Creole Serenaders
    Danny Barker—New Orleans Jazz Man and Raconteur, GHB Records
  • Street Beat Sir Charles Thompson and His All Stars
    Be Bop Classics, Vol. 1, Vintage Records
  • Instrumental: Rampart Street Boogie Danny Barker and Pops Foster
    "This is Jazz" The Historic Broadcasts, Vol. 4, Jazzology
  • Don't You Make Me High Blue Lu and Danny Barker
    Blue Lu Barker 1938-1939, Classics
  • Baby Won't You Please Come Home The All Star Stompers with Bertha "Chippie" Hill
    Danny Barker—New Orleans Jazz Man and Raconteur, GHB Records
  • Do You Know What it Means to Miss New Orleans The All Star Stompers and Louis Armstrong
    Danny Barker—New Orleans Jazz Man and Raconteur, GHB Records
  • Palm Court Strut Pud Brown and His New Orleans Jazz Men
    Danny Barker—New Orleans Jazz Man and Raconteur, GHB Records
  • Don't You Feel My Leg The Dirty Dozen Brass Band and Danny Barker
    This is Jazz 30: The Dirty Dozen Brass Band,
  • Instrumental: The Second Line Danny Barker
    Danny Barker—New Orleans Jazz Man and Raconteur, GHB Records
  • SEGMENT: Danny Barker

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  • Save the Bones Danny Barker
    Live at Carnegie Hall,
  • Whinin' Boy Danny Barker
    Live at Carnegie Hall,
  • Oh, But On the Third Day (Happy Feet Blues) Wynton Marsalis
    The Majesty of the Blues, Columbia
  • End Bed: Tishomingo Danny Barker
    Danny Barker—New Orleans Jazz Man and Raconteur, GHB Records

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: Hindustan Detroit Brooks and His Syncopated Percolators
    American Routes Live at the New Orleans Jazz Museum,
  • Nevertheless Detroit Brooks and His Syncopated Percolators
    American Routes Live at the New Orleans Jazz Museum,
  • When You're Smiling Detroit Brooks and His Syncopated Percolators
    American Routes Live at the New Orleans Jazz Museum,
  • Instrumental: Careless Love Blues Danny Barker
    The Fabulous Banjo of Danny Barker, Grammercy
  • Some of These Days Detroit Brooks and His Syncopated Percolators
    American Routes Live at the New Orleans Jazz Museum,
  • Basin Street Blues Detroit Brooks and His Syncopated Percolators
    American Routes Live at the New Orleans Jazz Museum,
  • Instrumental: Rose Room Albert Nicholas, Joe Sullivan, Danny Barker, Pops Foster, Baby Dodds
    "This is Jazz" The Historic Broadcasts, Vol. 4, Jazzology
  • SEGMENT: Detroit Brooks and his Syncopated Percolators

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  • What a Wonderful World Detroit Brooks and His Syncopated Percolators
    American Routes Live at the New Orleans Jazz Museum,
  • Eye is on the Sparrow Detroit Brooks and His Syncopated Percolators
    American Routes Live at the New Orleans Jazz Museum,
  • End Bed: Lazy River Danny Barker
    The Fabulous Banjo of Danny Barker, Period Records

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    REIMAGINING KENTUCKY COUNTRY MUSIC & NEW ORLEANS JAZZ WITH KELSEY WALDON AND AURORA NEALAND

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