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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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FLACO JIMENEZ / EDDIE PALMIERI

September 14th, 2005

This week feel the Pan-Latin vibe with guests Flaco Jiminez and Eddie Palmieri. San Antonio native and king of the conjunto accordion, Jiminez recalls his father’s influence on his playing. And NuYorican jazz pianist Eddie Palmieri talks about reshaping Latin bands with his La Perfecta group in the early 1960s. Plus, hear how Latin music influenced American roots rock, jazz and even Cajun music.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: Viva Seguin Flaco Jimenez
    Ultimo Tornado, WEA
  • Ay Te Dejo en San Antonio Flaco Jimenez
    Ay Te Dejo en San Antonio y Mas, Arhoolie
  • Wooly Bully Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs
    Best of, MGM
  • One Time One Night in America Los Lobos
    La Historia de la Banda del Este de los Angeles: El Cancionero, Rhino
  • La Pistola y La Corazon Los Lobos
    La Historia de la Banda del Este de los Angeles: El Cancionero, Rhino
  • Evangeline Feufollet
    Belle Louisiane, Feufollet
  • Mexican Special Rebirth Brass Band
    Feel Like Funkin' it Up, Rounder
  • Pachuca Blues Beto Villa y Orquesta
    Tejano Roots, Arhoolie
  • New Spanish Two Step Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys
    San Antonio Rose, Bear Family
  • Corrina Corina Freddy Fender
    Canciones de Mi Barrio, Arhoolie
  • Vamos A Bailar Freddy Fender
    Interpreta El Rock, Arhoolie
  • Pachuco Boogie Don Tosti's Pachuco Boogie Boys
    Pachuco Boogie, Arhoolie
  • 3 Cool Cats Ry Cooder w/ Little Willie G.
    Chavez Ravine, Nonesuch
  • Instrumental: Spaced Nature Omicron
    Cinematique, Shadow
  • INTERVIEW: Flaco Jimenez

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  • Blues Stay away from Me Doug Sahm & Band w/ Flaco Jimenez
    Doug Sahm & Band, Atlantic
  • He'll Have to Go Ry Cooder with Flaco Jimenez
    Chicken Skin Music, Warner Bros.

HOUR two

  • Open Bed: Conmigo Eddie Palmieri
    La Perfecta, Fania
  • El Cayuco Tito Puente
    Tito Puente: 50 Years of Swing, RMM
  • Watermelon Man Mongo Santamaria
    Skin on Skin: The Mongo Santamaria Story, 1958-1995, Rhino
  • Bossa Cubana Los Zafiros
    Bossa Cubana, World Circuit/Nonesuch
  • Bodas De Oro Manuel Galban and Ry Cooder
    Mambo Sinuendo, Nonesuch
  • El Son de Llama Orchestra Baobab de Dakar
    Afro-Latino, Putumayo
  • Instrumental: Cuando, Cuando, Que Sera Cal Tjader
    Talkin' Verve Roots Of Acid Jazz, Verve
  • Plena de San Anton Los Pleneros de la 21
    Somos Boricuas: We Are Puerto Rican, Henry Street
  • Manteca Dizzy Gillespie and His Orchestra with Chano Pozo
    Latin Jazz: La Combinacion Perfecta, Folkways
  • INTERVIEW: Eddie Palmieri

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  • Instrumental: A Weeping Willow Tom McDermott & Evan Christopher
    Danza, STR Digital
  • The Crave Jelly Roll Morton
    New York, Washington and the Rediscovery, Smithsonian
  • Longhair's Blues-Rhumba Professor Longhair
    New Orleans Piano, Atlantic
  • Blues for Cuba Floyd Dixon
    The Complete Aladdin Recordings, Capitol
  • Yama, Yama Orquestra de Enrique Pena
    The Cuban Danzon, Arhoolie
  • Panama Kid Ory
    Kid Ory’s Favorites!, Good Time Jazz
  • End Bed: Rum and Coca-Cola (version 2) Professor Longhair
    Fess: The Professor Longhair Anthology, Rhino

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