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NEW ORLEANS JAZZ BANJO/GUITARIST DANNY BARKER & AMERICAN ROUTES LIVE WITH DETROIT BROOKS AND HIS SYNCOPATED PERCOLATORS
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.
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, GHB Records - 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, Columbia - Instrumental: The Second Line Danny Barker
Danny Barker New Orleans Jazz Man and Raconteur, GHB Records - SEGMENT: Danny Barker
Listen - 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, - SEGMENT: Detroit Brooks and his Syncopated Percolators
Listen - 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 - 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